Programme 15 turns out to be a curious mixture of Blair, Blears and Bollards. This time we handed over the microphone to a school and a youth group. Find out what they make of a government.
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Category: Grassroots Channel
Meeting and talking to people doing fabulous things in communities.
Once they are hooked – Grassroots Channel Podcast 14
Programme 14. Angling is just about catching fish – isn’t it? Apparently not. Andy Walker tells the story of how fishing rejuvenates young lives and protects communities from crime.
His Birmingham based organisation, Get Hooked On Fishing (redirect), is working in neighbourhoods across the city. With support from the Bournville Village Trust and the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, it is turning this hugely popular sport into an engine for social change.
Links:
Andy Walker’s contact details (dead link)
Get Hooked on Fishing in the Midlands (redirect)
The original Get Hooked on fishing organisation
Yardley Community Network (dead link)
http://podnosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/bcen060421fishing.mp3
We don’t like to go in the parks – Grassroots Channel Podcast 13
Programme 13 from the Grassroots Channel comes not from Birmingham but from Dortmund in Germany. We’ve been demonstrating podcasting to a group of young people from cities across Europe.
Listen to Simone and Ethel as they try podcasting for the first time and talk to other young people about homelessness, junkies and fear in the streets. This programme is produced with the support of the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network and Residents 4 Regeneration in Europe. Thanks too to Chris and Nathan, both boys from the Four Dwellings High School in Birmingham.
Links:
Residents 4 Regeneration in Europe (dead link)
Dortmund Nordstadt Festival – German site (Google Translation) (dead link)
Photo’s of Dortmund Nordstadt (dead link)
Dortmund in Wikipedia
The Worst Slum in Europe
Programme 12 eavesdrops on a conversation between two people whose relationship began with intense frustration and conflict. Natalie Brade and Councillor Sir Albert Bore: one a practical active citizen, the other a senior politician, met when Natalie began protesting about housing conditions on what was then the Lee Bank estate in Ladywood.
Now they work together running Optima Community Association. A little longer than usual, this programme is a rare opportunity to hear a citizen and politician explaining how their relationship unfolded through the battle to regenerate Lee Bank in Birmingham.
Links:
Written version of Natalie’s story as a pdf (dead link)
Optima Community Association (dead link redirects)
ODPM Award for Sustainable Communities (dead link)