The Society's patron is Her Majesty the Queen ; Lord Jordan of Bournville became RoSPA's president in 2008.

Bournville () is a model village on the south side of Birmingham, England, best known for its connections with the Cadbury family and chocolate – including a dark chocolate bar branded " Bournville ".

It is also a ward within the council constituency of Selly Oak and home to the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts.

It is also noteworthy that, because George Cadbury was a temperance Quaker, no public houses have ever been built in Bournville ; however, since the late 1940s, there has been a licensed members ' bar at Rowheath Pavilion.

The dark chocolate Bournville Plain is now manufactured in France and sold in the UK.

Bournville is an ethnically diverse community although ethnic minorities represent 10. 1 % ( 2, 474 ) of the ward's population as opposed to 29. 6 % for Birmingham.

Serco Integrated Services is the second largest employer in Bournville, employing approximately 1, 800 people.

Although Bournville is most famous for its turn-of-the-20th century Cadbury style homes, a significant amount of more modern stock also exists in the area — not all of which was built by Cadbury's.

Bournville School is a secondary school in the Birmingham Local Education Authority area.

Bournville is served by Bournville College of Further Education, which features a sixth form college and higher education programmes.

Bournville is served by Bournville railway station on the Cross-City Line to Birmingham New Street, Lichfield and Redditch.

While other suburban Birmingham railway stations feature the yellow and green corporate livery of Centro, Bournville railway station is instead painted in Cadbury's purple.

Christian churches in Bournville include St Francis of Assisi Church which is also the Anglican parish church.

The Bournville Friends Meeting House is located on Linden Road, and features a bust of George Cadbury by Francis Wood, installed in 1924.

A tributory of Griffin's Brook flows through Northfield's Victoria Common and parallel to Heath Road South on its way to Bournville although it is piped underground now for most of its route since the 1970s, surfacing only briefly to feed the pond near Hole Farm Road, then in Woodlands Park and next near the Valley Pool boating lake, after which it joins up with Griffin's Brook proper which is then renamed the Bourn Brook until it flows into the River Rea.

* Bournville School-Bournville School and sixth form centre is a coeducational, state comprehensive school, with Specialist Business and Enterprise College and Music College status, for students aged 11 – 19 years, located on Griffins Brook Lane, Bournville

Originally the area that was to become Bournville consisted of a few scattered farmsteads and cottages, linked by winding country lanes, with the only visual highlight being the Georgian built Bournbrook Hall.

The Cadburys named the area ' Bournville ' after the Bourn Brook ( now known as The Bourn ); with ' ville ' being French for ' town '; this set Bournville apart from the local area ( some people mistakenly believe Bournville was originally known as Bournbrook-Bournbrook exists as a separate area to the north of Bournville ).

Now containing 7, 800 homes on 1, 000 acres ( 4 km² ) of land with 100 acres ( 0. 4 km² ) of parks and open spaces, Bournville remains a popular residential area of Birmingham.

Bournville had an area of 639. 8 hectares, and within this, it has a population density of 39. 8 people per hectare.

Primary schools in the area include Bournville Junior School, Bournville Infant School and St Francis Primary School.

Local work was plentiful, especially at the Austin Motor Works at Longbridge and, for the women, at Cadbury's chocolate factory in Bournville or the Kalamazoo paper factory in Longbridge, which had been moved to the area by Oliver Morland and F. Paul Impey in 1913 from central Birmingham.

Cotteridge is an area of Birmingham, England and is part of the Bournville ward.

The name comes from the Bourn Brook, a tributary of the River Rea, which flows along the northern boundary of the area ( Bournville is named after a different Bourn ).

Bournville railway station serves the Bournville area of Birmingham, England.

Special features include the Boulton and Watt collection, the Bournville Village Trust Archive, the Charles Parker Archive, the British Institute of Organ Studies archive and the Railway and Canal Historical Society Library.

In 1900, the Bournville Village Trust was set up to formally control the development of the estate, independently of George Cadbury or the Cadbury company.

* Bournville Village local blog

The extensive housebuilding continued before and after the Second World War through extensions to the Bournville Model Village and several estates of temporary Prefab housing in West Heath, although new house provision has slowed down to a much less dramatic rate since the 1970s.

* Bournville Village Trust, an organization in Bournville, a suburb of Birmingham, England

The famous photographer Bill Brandt made an extensive series of photographs for the Bournville Village Trust in Birmingham, between 1939 and 1943.

1900: Bournville Village Trust is founded by George Cadbury, this is to set many improvements and high standards of living and leisure pastimes for factory workers across Britain.

From 1900, development of the village became the responsibility of the Bournville Village Trust.

* The Model Village and its Cottages: Bournville ( 1906 )

From 2006 onwards a section of the Lightmoor development at Milton Keynes was led by the Trust, recognising the longevity of the social and aesthetic principles demonstrated at Bournville and in other English garden suburbs.

The Cadburys were particularly concerned with the health and fitness of their workforce, incorporating park and recreation areas into the Bournville village plans and encouraging swimming, walking and indeed all forms of outdoor sports.

During World War II, parts of the Bournville factory were turned over to war work, producing milling machines and seats for fighter aircraft.

Some philanthropists had begun to provide housing in tenement blocks, while some factory owners built entire villages for their workers, such as Saltaire ( 1853 ), Bournville ( 1879 ), Port Sunlight ( 1888 ), Stewartby, and Silver End as late as 1925.

In an era of model villages such as Saltaire, Port Sunlight and Bournville, Woodlands, with extensive open spaces, many different designs of houses and overall living conditions superb for their time, possibly represents the height of the model village movement.

The canal locally was used by a declining number of companies and by the 1940s only two companies used it to any extent, Royal Worcester Porcelain for coal and Cadbury of Bournville for chocolate crumb.

Cadbury's also built the Bournville indoor swimming baths on Bournville Lane ( separate buildings for ' girls ' and men ), the Valley pool boating lake and the picturesque cricket pitch adjacent to the factory site, that was made famous as the picture on boxes of Milk Tray chocolates throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.

Bournville Rest House was built to celebrate the Silver Wedding Anniversary of George and Elizabeth Cadbury, and was paid for by the employees of Cadbury Brothers Ltd.

The 2001 Population Census found that 25, 462 people were living in Bournville with a population density of 4, 217 people per km² compared with 3, 649 people per km² for Birmingham.

The Bournville Centre for Visual Arts, located at Ruskin Hall on Linden Road, has been part of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design ( BIAD ) at Birmingham City University since 1988.

The northern reaches of Northfield fall within the Bournville model village and the southern housing estates were originally built by Austin Motors for their workforce.