Welcome
to Birmingham CEN
We are proud of what Birmingham's community and voluntary groups and active citizens achieve daily despite the odds that often seem stacked against them. We believe that the future of our city, its wealth and welfare, depends on its communities - all of its communities. We are proud of what we have achieved in working to bring together 20,000 community and voluntary groups and active citizens so that this city feels, and acts, more like one city. We want you to know, that if you care, you are not alone.
b:cen
In September, the Birmingham Strategic Partnership decided to decommission b:cen and BANF, and to cease grant funding. As a result, the b:cen programme has been closed down, and ceased functioning from November 30th 2007.
The Community Networks supported by b:cen, however, have decided they will carry on. Representatives of them have been meeting on a regular basis since December 2007 and decided at a meeting in Febriary 2008 to set up a new organisation to develop and support community networks in Birmingham.
The new organisation is expected to be launched later in March 2008. After which a new website will be set up and kept up to date.
Constituency Network Contact Details:
Hodge Hill
COMM:PACT
Unit 5 Fox & Goose Shopping Centre
Washwood Heath Road
Birmingham
B8 2EP
Te: 0121 783 3363
Yardley
Yardley Community Development Trust
50 Newells Road
Sheldon
Birmingham, B26 2SH
Tel: 0121 244 8437
Mobile: 07779230748
Email: Yardleycdt@hotmail.co.uk
Perry Barr
Free CDT
C/o Jenny Brown
Handsworth Community Fire Station
Rookery Road
Handsworth. Birmingham
Call Jenny on 07969509708
Erdington
Contact Laura Needham on 07795448460 or Merlin Venture 0121 776 8880.
Hall Green
Barbara Willis-Brown
Friends Institute
220 Moseley Road
Birmingham B12.
Tel: 0121 440 4873.
barbara.willis-brown@birmingham.gov.uk
Selly Oak
Peter Tinsley
33 Dartmouth Road
Selly Oak
Birmingham
B29 6DR.
Tel: 0121 472 6671.
email: admin@birmcomsafe.fsnet.co.uk.
Edgbaston
Robert Nutt
Executive Officer
Cerebral Palsy Midlands
17 Victoria Road
Harborne
Birmingham
B17 8LP
Tel. 0121 427 3182
Email: rnutt@cpmids.free-online.co.uk
Northfield
Fathi Jamil and Sally Bateman
Community Resource & Information Service
200 Bunbury Road
Northfield
B31 2DL
Tel. 0121 476 8705
Website: http://www.communityresource.org.uk/
Ladywood
Network Chair - Mrs Gillian Robinson
0121 456 4338 / 07840615729
email: maise@tiscali.co.uk
Latest on the Grassroots Channel
For more information about grassroots podcasts and Grassroots Stories - b:cen briefings on community projects, email Nisha at the b:cen office.
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News
Communities Secretary Applies Pressure on Empowerment
Communities secretary Hazel Blears is stepping up government pressure to ensure local area agreements do not disempower residents and activists. This follows widespread criticism from Community Empowerment networks across the country, who have nearly all endured cuts in funding in the LAA process
'Have Your Say' on Birmingham's Statement of Community Involvement.
Have your Say on the document is a statement of how the City Council will involve you in the production of planning policy documents and the determination of planning applications.
Get Ready to Work with the Fire and Police Services
A new course is being run in the West Midlands to help people prepare for employment, with a particular focus on jobs in the fire and police services.
Mugging killers jailed for life
Two men who strangled two mugging victims in separate robberies are jailed for life.
Two held after car railway crash
Two men are arrested by police after a car crashes onto railway tracks in the Black Country.
Ethnic groups 'get on together'
Most people get along successfully with people from other ethnic backgrounds, research suggests.
Voters 'are confused by Labour'
Voters are confused about what Labour stands for, says minister John Denham as a poll puts the party on 23%.
Get tough with Burma, says Clegg
Aid should be dropped into Burma whether the authorities there allow it or not, says Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg.
Johnson hails new NY partnership
London Mayor Boris Johnson announces a new "era of co-operation and partnership" with New York.
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