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.

As Bournville is a conservation area, another job of the Bournville Village Trust is to accept or reject plans for building extension and modification.

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

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

George Cadbury, a Quaker, preached Christian values such as respectability, thrift and sobriety and sought to unify the Bournville community through rituals such as gift giving between employer and employee.

Unlike Port Sunlight, Bournville catered for a mixed community where residences were not restricted to the workforce only.

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.

Located next Stirchley Road railway station, which itself was opposite the canal, they renamed the estate Bournville and opened the Bournville factory the following year.

After the war, the Bournville factory was redeveloped and mass production began in earnest.

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

The village had contemporaries such as Bournville, Saltaire, Port Sunlight and others.

The exception proved the rule: even greenfield factory sites such as Bournville, founded in a rural setting, developed its own housing and profited from convenient communications systems.

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.

Residential areas outside the town centre include the Oldmixon, Coronation, and Bournville housing estates, built in the mid to late 20th century.

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 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.

In 1988, the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design ( BIAD ) was established from the merging of the polytechnic's Faculty of Art and Design with Bournville College of Art.

Existing facilities at the Gosta Green and Bournville Campuses will be moved to the new facilities as the university seeks to reduce the number of campuses it occupies.

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.

Pottery dating back to 2700BC has been found in Bournville.

Burnt mound sites such as that discovered in Bournville also show evidence of wider settlements, with clearances in the woodland and grazing animals.

Their styling owed much to the English garden suburb tradition ( seen at Bournville, Letchworth, Saltaire, Port Sunlight and Welwyn Garden City ) and garden areas and front boundaries were generally more varied than on contemporary estates within military bases where state ownership endured over a longer period.

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 packing room at Bournville, circa 1903.

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.

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.

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.

At the Bournville factory in Birmingham, in the UK, they are manufactured at a rate of 1. 5 million per day.