In A Fix? Welfare Cuts and Consumer Society »
Designer dresses; watching the football; or pizza, potato wedges and a litre of Coke – a treat can come in many forms, but the underlying value is the same. The secret of success in a consumer society is that there’s a price and a product for whatever you can afford: a £1000 Vivienne Westwood creation [...]
Time to
Defend Improve Public Services! »
Appalled by the effect of cuts on your community? But you want to improve public services, not defend them? I was speaking to one of Birmingham’s genuine social entrepreneurs yesterday. He was telling me about his experience of making his voice heard in relation to cuts in public services. The cuts are having a real [...]
Cheaper Energy: Together »
With one in two families in some neighbourhoods struggling to pay fuel bills, Birmingham & Solihull Together promises cheaper bills by clubbing together. The scheme is open to anyone who lives in Birmingham or Solihull and – if you have your most recent gas and electric bills handy – it’s easy to check how much [...]
Co-operative Council »
Chamberlain Forum and others are working to develop and test an approach to the ‘co-operative council’ in Birmingham. We aim to work out how the Council can act cooperatively for the benefit of the city and working to recognisable co-op principles: Inclusive Democratically Controlled Participative Acting for the Sustainable Benefit of the Community Independent and [...]
Neighbourhood Timebanks, Carrs Lane – Tuesday 10 July »
Making the most of what we have – the skills and time of residents – to make life better. That’s the object of neighbourhood timebanking. Chamberlain Forum is looking to support the development of neighbourhood timebanks as part of its Communities Managing Change project supported by Barrow Cadbury Trust. Representatives of neighbourhood groups and others [...]
The Drugs Don’t Work »
The drugs don’t work. No painkiller beats dealing with the source of the pain. No opiate can deliver a high as sustainably as our own bodies can. This would be a matter for each of us to work out for ourselves, except that the full cost of drug abuse is not just paid by the [...]
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