Communities Managing Change

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This page has details about the Communities Managing Change event which was held on 25 May 2012 at St George’s Community Hub in Newtown.  About 80 people attended from a range of community and voluntary groups, public services, policy-shapers and funding bodies.  More details (and pictures) will be included during today and tomorrow (28 and 29 May).  In the meantime – thanks to everyone who came, to St George’s, to the speakers  and everyone who set up stall.

Briefing sheets published for teh event are available to download below.  Further detail and links for further information and contacts relating to subjects discussed at the conference will appear here during today and tomorrow:

the pages on

Fuel Poverty

Green Deal

Time Banking


are now available


The conference programme is available as a download (PDF):

Conference Programme 25 May 2012

The briefings produced for the conference are available as downloads (all as PDFs):

Community Asset Transfer and Right to Bid

Fuel Poverty

Green Deal

Neighbourhood Planning

Right to Challenge

Time Banking

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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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