Tag: Voluntary Sector

Are you Powered Up?

Next month in Birmingham is a two day training event to help active citizens wield more power in their communities. Organised by Friends of the Earth “Power Up” will cost you £60 and should help you:

Talk tactics and share strategies with the experts
Meetgovernment agencies and other community support organisations
Get practical tips for shaping your community
Meet like-minded inspirational campaigners
Examine real life local case studies.

It is for:

…anyone involved in community campaigns or site-specific environmental campaigning. You need not be a member of Friends of the Earth to join us, nor do you need to be an expert.

I’ve mentioned Friends of the Earth before for their online efforts (which now also include this local blog) and, so it’s good to see them also extending their efforts at face to face networking and skills sharing.

Hat tip: Involve

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Jobs at WAITS

One of our earlier programmes on the Grassroots Channel was about a Birmingham based organisation called Women Acting in Todays Society. They have also been running the Women’s Empowerment Network in conjunction with b:cen.

BVSC tell me that WAITS has three jobs going: a community organiser, a BME women’s capacity builder and a Chinese women support and development worker.

Should anyone be interested you can find more details here and, unlike almost any other job applicant, you can also listen to Marcia Lewinson talking about WAITS here.

"It takes courage to change…" Social Cohesion in Dudley and Youtube

What does is take to build and nourish social cohesion? I’ve often thought the term itself has been twisted over the past year, from an expression of a neighbourhood at ease with itself to a poor short hand for tackling extremism, including home grown terror of a variety of political, religious and philosophical hues.

Tomorrow four Whitehall advisers will be in Dudley to get a better picture of how the community tackles extremism in the borough. One thing they will see is this short video we’ve produced to try and capture some of the essence of the Dudley approach.

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