Community Resilience and Self Help

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Chamberlain Forum is the neighbourhood think/do-tank (committed to action as well as words) based in Birmingham and constituted as a non-profit company limited by guarantee.  The Forum was formally set up in 2007 to link and develop different sorts of expertise in neighbourhoods, notably the people and communities that live in neighbourhoods and the professionals and agencies that serve them.

This paper sets out the Forum’s understanding and commitment to community resilience and self-help.

Community Resilience and Self Help (pdf)

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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.

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