Birmingham's graffiti pensioners!

Mar 5 2009 by Jane Tyler, Birmingham Mail

TV presenter Lauren Laverne at the street art project in Shenley

COMMUNITY groups in Birmingham have been reminded that millions of pounds in Lottery cash is up for grabs.

TV presenter Lauren Laverne visited the city to encourage groups to bid for cash.

Every week the National Lottery Good Causes hands out £25 million in grants to local groups across the UK.

Laverne, who is a Good Causes ambassador, visited a street art project in Shenley, near Weoley Castle, which has brought together pensioners and teenagers.

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The Arts 50 Alive Network has organised for the different generations to paint a mural on hoardings around a building site in Black Haynes Lane with graffiti.

The group received £8,500 from the Lottery to fund its work with 23 community groups across south Birmingham.

Rebecca Debenham, chairman of Arts 50, said that without the Good Causes money they would not have been able to fund the project.