Tag: Birmingham Settlement

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 – they make life better for Brummies.

We worked them through our social media awareness session – the one designed to help people get their heads in the right place, to understand the link between what they do and what we know.

Margaret Farrell is in charge of the business of outreach for Birmingham Settlement’s money advice services. She confessed that all this digital stuff is outside her experience – then at the end of a mornings worked told me this

Makes me smile!