Exactly when the sewing meeting at Acocks Green was formed is not known. After the disastrous fire in 1893 the sewing meeting proposed a sale of work towards restoring the church fabric by raising money. There is an acrimonious reference to this effort in the Leaders Meeting minute book for 1895 when it was: "Resolved that the Ladies be requested to hand over to the society steward the £40 raised by sale of work." It appeared that there must have been a difference of opinion as to whether the sewing meeting could decide for itself on what to spend its hard earned funds. The rift must have been healed, never to open again, because ever afterwards Quarterly, Trust and Leaders Meetings have been meticulous in applying to the sewing meeting for help in raising money and in thanking them afterwards. Such an event happened in 1913 when the Quarterly Meeting thanked the Acocks Green sewing meeting for providing carpets in the refurnishing of the minister's manse. Two years later it was recorded that they gave a substantial amount for chapel repairs.

The focal point of the sewing meeting was in working towards the next fund raising bazaar. During the 1920s and 1930s the meeting was looked upon to instigate the many bazaars. Those of 1926 and 1929 helped to pay for the extensive church alterations of 1927. The 1930, '31, '32 and 1935 bazaars devoted their proceeds to the building fund for the new Sunday School buildings, and the liquidation of the debt thereon. The 1935 bazaar, spread over three days, aimed for a minimum sum of £1600, a truly remarkable sum for those days. The bazaar handbook for that year (it could not be called a programme) was an ambitious affair of some fifty pages and local shopkeepers and traders, some of whom were connected with the Methodist church, placed advertisements therein:

William Daw, 1133, Warwick Road, Acocks Green – "High Class Fish, Game and Poultry Dealers, Oldest Established - Most up to Date."

Crabbe Bros. Ltd., Builders, Newhall Street, B'ham. Houses on the Dovehouse Farm estate, Solihull, £675-£795.

J. W. Gethin, Warwick Road, Tyseley. Rover cars 10 h.p. saloon £248, 12 h.p. open 4 seater £288, speed 14 h.p. streamline coupé £415.

E. Pitt & Son, 1103, Warwick Road, Acocks Green. Florists and fruiters, "You want the best – we supply it."

Keight & Soden, Butchers, Hereford House, Acocks Green. "The only Butchers who kill on the premises in the Village."

Ladies in charge of the sewing meeting stall for the 1935 bazaar included Mesdames Carrington, Clarke, Drewitt, Floyd, Gilbert, Marshall, Miles, Morley, Pullan, Shipway, Thacker, Whittle, and the indefatigable, the Misses Mellor and Ward.

After the war proceeds from bazaar funds went not only to improving Acocks Green's funds but for other churches in the circuit. Of the £982 raised by the 1956 bazaar £500 went to the new church at Lyndon. Again the sewing meeting was the guiding hand behind such efforts with Mrs. Lily Roberts much to the fore. Post war members of the sewing meeting included Mesdames Rushton, Fitton, Pardoe, Marshall, Marsh, Cowin, Rolfe, Humphris, Lucock, Bradley and Fletcher.

In the late 1950s the sewing meeting was perhaps at its zenith and many a church social function depended for its success on its active participation. Many a resolution, finally adopted at Leaders or Trustees meeting, saw its inception during a quiet discussion by the ladies of the sewing meeting, whilst plying their needles during an afternoon session.

It was a strong, or foolish, male who resisted a recommendation as to church governance which had emanated from this meeting. For a female member of the congregation to be asked to join the sewing meeting it was the final accolade to social success.

Even whilst poking gentle fun at the sewing meeting it is acknowledged without reservation that its contribution to the financial resources of the church was immeasurable, and its participation in other activities was always welcomed wholeheartedly.

After the Christian Stewardship campaign in the 1960s the need for church bazaars was thought by some to be at an end. This, together with the drop in numbers by death or removal, was the beginning of the end for the meeting. Finally, on February 11th, 1969, the Ladies Sewing meeting closed its account with Lloyds Bank in Acocks Green and was no more.