Chamberlain Forum helps turn ideas into effective action.  We can offer experience and expertise in:

Community Media

Developing community websites and web-based resources; creating films and audio programmes in partnership with local community based film makers and producers.  Examples of previous work include:

Life in Lozells – a neighbourhood website developed in partnership with the local neighbourhood management board

Guide Neighbourhoods – the national Guide Neighbourhoods Programme

GEML – Grow It, Eat It, Move It, Live It, Project in Ladywood

Community Engagement

Offering bespoke engagement advice and support; including developing strategies and plans, delivering projects and interventions such as workshops and events, and developing engagement structures like networks and forums.

Evaluation

Working in partnership to develop useful and inclusive evaluation processes that enable effective learning to take place.

  • Castle Vale Community Regeneration Service
  • Balsall Heath Children’s Centre
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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.

Big Ideas

3rd Sector Asset Transfer Big Society Birmingham Citizenship Citizenship Model Disability civil society co-production Cohesion Community Community Anchor Community Assets Community Dialogue Community Empowerment community first community networks Connecting Communities Culture Democracy faith future cities Health Local Government Localism Neighbourhood Forums neighbourhood management ni4 Participatory Budgeting Regeneration research Resident University riots Sandwell Self-help Social Enterprise Social Media Story Telling Sustainable Communities Timebanking Transforming Local Infrastructure unemployment Volunteering welfare West Bromwich Youth Empowerment

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