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Now FULLY BOOKED – Communities Managing Change Event »

PLEASE NOTE – This event is now FULLY BOOKED. We will aim to get resources and information online as soon as the event as possible.

May 8, 2012 | Posted in Events,Featured | Read More »

Oliver Letwin Visit to Balsall Heath – 11 April »

Oliver Letwin, Minister of State for Policy and advocate for the ‘neighbourly society’ within the Conservative Party is the guest at Balsall Heath Forum on 11 April. He will be meeting residents and getting an update on progress in the area. Balsall Heath in Birmingham is one of the neighbourhoods identified by the Coalition [...]

March 29, 2012 | Posted in Events | Read More »

Set up a Neighbourhood Website »

Neighbourhood Forums, Community First panels and other groups interested in setting up local websites in Birmingham are invited to take up support from Chamberlain Forum and Community Network 4 Birmingham. Any local group can set up, and get support to manage, a neighbourhood website for free as part of a project to extend local websites to cover 100 city neighbourhoods.

March 29, 2012 | Posted in Events,Featured,Resources | Read More »

Future of Health & Social Care 12 March 4.30pm in Ladywood »

The next Chamberlain Forum meeting features Councillor Steve Bedser (Birmingham City Council Shadow Cabinet member for Adult & Community Services) and other guests for a discussion of the future of local health and social care services in Birmingham. We’ll be looking at how the Health & Social Care Bill and other changes affecting health and [...]

February 14, 2012 | Posted in Events,Featured | Read More »

Localism Session in Wolverhampton »

Chamberlain Forum is working with Wolverhampton City Council to organise an information session on the Localism Act and what it means for the voluntary sector in the city. The session will be on Thursday 23 February 2012 in Committee Room 3 , Civic Centre, St Peter’s Square, Wolverhampton 2-5pm. It will cover:- An introduction to [...]

February 13, 2012 | Posted in Events,News | Read More »

The Future of Localisation & Devolution – 20th March »

Join the Chamberlain Forum, Councillor John Cotton (Birmingham City Council Shadow Cabinet member for Local Services and Community Safety) and other guests for a discussion of the future of localisation and devolution in Birmingham. We’ll be looking at how devolution of decision making and the localisation of services in Birmingham could be revitalised in the [...]

February 13, 2012 | Posted in Events,Featured | Read More »

What We Do

Chamberlain Forum helps civil society and local authorities to coproduce better places to live. We are non-profit, politically independent and proudly based in Birmingham.

We organise Chamberlain Lectures featuring speakers including Prime Minister David Cameron. We also organise Resident University - a peer and shared learning programme for people who live and work in neighbourhoods.

We promote and develop community networks as social capital builders, including by supporting Community Network 4 Birmingham

We support action to strengthen local civil society including through: community asset transfers; neighbourhood websites; mediation and facilitation; training and business planning.

We organise action research into aspects of coproduction and are delivering an 18 month programme, Communities Managing Change, funded by Barrow Cadbury Trust.

Chamberlain Forum Limited acts as a consultancy delivering a wide range of 'thinking and doing' services for clients including local authorities, housing associations, development trusts, health and social care bodies, local strategic partnerships and voluntary and community groups.