ERCO (Edgbaston Reservoir for all) is a not-for-profit organisation with 3 key, ongoing aims:

- 1. Ensuring reservoir users have a strong voice on key issues affecting the reservoir and surrounding area.

- 2. Maintaining and enhancing the reservoir as a public space and local nature reserve vital for people's health and wellbeing.

- 3. Campaigning and collaborating with others to achieve aims 1 and 2 (hence ERCO: Edgbaston Reservoir COllaborative).

ERCO, as an open, collaborative organisation, serves to achieve these aims in many ways, for example:

- 1. By sharing information, collecting and conveying views, and signposting reservoir users to ways of expressing their individual and collective thoughts.

- 2. Through involvement in the local nature reserve committee and encouraging participation and engagement with the natural environment around the reservoir.

- 3. By organising events with others to enhance our collective engagement with the reservoir and surrounding area, therefore furthering aims 1 and 2.

In basic terms, ERCO's mission is to preserve, enhance and sustain the Edgbaston Reservoir site as a green, open public space so that it continues to be freely accessible and available to all.

Our Reservoir

Edgbaston Reservoir is a special place. People who know it come back, again and again. It’s one of those places people take for granted, it is often so ordinary. Some days you notice it’s a bit tatty, with too much litter, and fading graffiti. Other days you stumble into a sunset like no-other; glimpse a string of young coots straining to keep up with their parent, or catch your breath over a new and vibrant bit of graffiti whose colour lifts your spirits as you follow your own well trodden path around the water.

So many people have little, everyday memories of this place, which have become special over the years. These memories are already shared between Reservoir users, local residents, and regulars who have found something important here. Whether it’s a space to think, breathe, reflect, a place to walk the dog, or push a buggy, or just to be, without doing, this space belongs to everyone, and it’s important the wider public retains that sense of ownership of this place. It is not the council's, as a separate entity from the public. It is our reservoir, 'our' being all Reservoir users.