Programme 11. Our listeners talk back and in this programme we hear from one living in Birmingham and another in the Philippines. Read more
Category: Grassroots Channel
Meeting and talking to people doing fabulous things in communities.
Generosity is a key ingredient – Grassroots Channel Podcast
Programme 10. Generosity – how can that revive a neighbourhood?
The Church of England in Birmingham thinks it may make a huge difference. In fact it seems Lent is a good time for us all learn something about generosity – including the church and its congregation. The weeks running up to Easter in the Christian Calendar have long been seen as a time of self denial. But the Anglican Church in the city is trying to turn that notion upside down and make lent the time of generosity. It has printed 60,000 books full of generous actions designed to strengthen communities and it wants people across the city to channel the discipline of self denial into a festival of giving.
The Director of the city’s Forum for Community Regeneration, Fred Rattley, tells us more about Love life, live lent.
Links:
The Church of England in Brum
Pavement to Parliament – Marcia Lewinson of WAIT’s podcast.
Programme 9 on the Grassroots Channel tells the story of the Birmingham based group who use techniques developed in 1930’s Chicago to revitalise individuals, families and communities. We talk to Marcia Lewinson, the Chief Executive of Women Acting in Today’s Society, a South Birmingham based charity. Waits was established in 1992 to: “support women to address issues such as welfare benefits, employment and education, domestic violence, isolation, health, crime and the fear of crime and many more.”
Links:
Women Acting in Today’s Society
Digital Birmingham
Saul Alinsky of Community Organising – Wikipedia
Update: June 2009. Waits now also keeps this useful Database of women’s groups in Birmingham:
The W.A.I.T.S. City-Wide Directory contains details of group meetings on various women’s issues throughout the Birmingham area. To use the directory simply select the group issue you are interested in along with the area.
I am the grass now – Grassroots Channel Podcast about Edward Road Police Station
We talk to a group of neighbours in Balsall Heath in Birmingham who work unpaid to keep their local police station open, hear from listeners to the Grassroots Channel and get a tiny taste of a Little Britain.
Links:
Goosemore Lane Allotments (dead link)
Paul Hopkins Podcast (dead link)
Balsall Heath Forum