These are the faces of the latest bunch of New Optimists and if you’re interested in the future of Birmingham and the future of how we feed ourselves you may just want to follow their conversation as part of job we’re doing tomorrow (Wednesday 2nd November 6 – 9 pm) . We will be live …
Community-led neighbourhood planning in Balsall Heath
This is a short video with Joe Holyoak, a resident of Balsall Heath, an inner city area to the south of Birmingham. Balsall Heath is one of the first 20 neighbourhood planning front runners chosen by government to write their own neighbourhood plan. The idea, part of the Localism Bill, is that instead of neighbourhood …
This is why we do it – or how social media makes people want to go to work on Mondays
This morning we started our work with Birmingham Settlement – one of the city’s oldest charites with a track record that spans two century. They do tricky and incredibly supportive work working with the most disadvantaged people in their neighbourhood, the wider city and increasingly the wider world! As one of them put it – …
Local Government please don’t sack the connectors.
I’m just reading the very promising report on the future of public services written as part of the University of Birmingham Policy Commissions. “When Tomorrow Comes” began life with this discussion on Big Society at the Conservative Party Conference last year. Now published the work describes a world very close to my heart, active engaged …