Resident University

The Resident University website  at www.residentuniversity.org  is undergoing final bits of development and will be live from this evening Thursday 12 November.

The next Resident University scheduled events are:

Lecture – Phillip Blond on Welfare Reform 18 November at 4-6pm Balsall Heath Church Centre, Balsall Heath

Seminar – Influencing Local Decision Makers 19 November at 6.30pm Nishkam Centre, Handsworth

RU Council- informal meeting 2 December at 6.15pm Birmingham Centre for Voluntary Action, Digbeth

Workshop – Lottery Funding Workshop 9 December for BOSF members at 10am Moseley CDT, Moseley

Seminar – Greening is Believing 10 December at 9.30am Balsall Heath Forum, Balsall Heath

If you would like to book a place on any you can use the form below until the Resident University site is up and running:

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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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