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“"Would an improved and wider reaching Guide Neighbourhoods programme actually help neighbourhoods become more self-reliant and less dependent on State hand-outs?"”
by Do We Need Guide Neighbourhoods?

Links Worth Making

Chamberlain Forum has made websites for:

* Network News - the Community Network 4 Birmingham's site


* Guide Neighbourhoods - the national network of Guide Neighbourhoods


* GEML programme - food, exercise and healthy lifestyles in inner city Birmingham


* Life in Lozells - true stories from the Lozells neighbourhood in Birmingham


* Oyabatucada - Birmingham's premier samba band

«Sideways Look at ‘Big Society’»

Sideways Look at ‘Big Society’

The whole way we think of public services and the part they play in making neighbourhoods may need to change. The challenge, identified in Chamberlain Forum's Looking Sideways report on neighbourhood coproduction, is to look beyond the management of individual public services and instead at how they work together, and with communities, to create...

July 28 2010 / 2 comments / Read More »

Common Ground for City Cultures

Some see it as a classroom or a refuge; to others it’s the gym or a hospital… or their...

June 25 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Learning from Stories – SDM workshops

Two Workshops to find out more on Friday 16th July at the Bond, Fazeley Street, Birmingham. 10.30-12.30pm and repeated at...

June 24 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Cultures of Birmingham…Manufacturing

A Chamberlain Forum discussion led by Professor David Bailey, looking into how manufacturing has shaped life in the city....

June 24 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Cultures of Birmingham…..Open Spaces

Chamberlain Forum discussion led by Dr Alison Millward looking into what parks and open spaces mean for life in...

June 9 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

Residents Link to Learn in Newtown

About 70 Birmingham Residents joined Resident University over the two days it spent at St George's Community Hub in...

April 2 2010 / No comment / Read More »

News

‘Faith and Hope Works’ in Balsall Heath

Theories of influence and empowerment, derived from the structured dialogue story circle about influence. Part of the Be Birmingham funded research project into what works in priority neighbourhoods...

Aug 18, 2010 / More » ‘Faith and Hope Works’ in Balsall Heath

Opinion

Odd One Out?

In a tribute to our most loved BBC current affairs satire show not hosted by Dara O Briain Have I Got News For You, Chamberlain Forum’s very own pictorial puzzler…. Who is the Odd...

Aug 4, 2010 / More » Odd One Out?

People

Citizens With Citizens’ Rights: The Social Model of Disability

Mark Lynes of Birmingham Disability Support Network explains the Social Model of Disability and that disabled people are citizens with rights and responsibilities to get involved in decisions that affect them and the...

Jan 11, 2010 / More » Citizens With Citizens’ Rights: The Social Model of Disability

Resources

Sideways Look at ‘Big Society’

The whole way we think of public services and the part they play in making neighbourhoods may need to change. The challenge, identified in Chamberlain Forum's Looking Sideways report on neighbourhood coproduction,...

Jul 28, 2010 / More » Sideways Look at ‘Big Society’

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