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Welcome to Community Network 4 Birmingham

CN4B is an independent membership organisation set up in 2008 by people from various Community Networks in Birmingham. Our aim is to support and promote the development of community networks.

Membership of CN4B is open to active citizens, community, residents groups and associations, voluntary sector organisations and others with an interest in developing local communities.

CN4B is a not for profit company.

Chamberlain and CN4B say goodbye to Tippa Naphtali

January 27th, 2012

CN4B Admin

Chamberlain Forum and CN4B are very sadly saying goodbye at the end of January to our project manager, Tippa Naphtali. He has been part of our team for nearly two years, and has worked closely with us to develop and deliver Resident University, as well as CN4B programmes.

In particular, Tippa has transformed Resident University Online learning, as well as setting up a highly successful mentoring project, which we aim to find a way of continuing in the future.

Tippa will continue working with Chamberlain Forum, at least in the short term on a part time basis, and we hope that we will be able to develop new work with him in the future.

Paul Slatter and Hannah Worth – Chamberlain Forum

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Community Rights Guide published

January 27th, 2012

Tippa Naphtali

Locality, the organisation for community anchors, has produced a quick guide to the Community Right to Bid and the Community Right to Challenge, which are part of the new Localism Act. Locality manages the Assets Transfer Unit, which can provide assistance on take on a local asset.

Community Right to Bid

The Community Right to Bid gives local groups the opportunity to safeguard important local assets like pubs, post offices or libraries.

Under the new legislation, groups can add local assets to a ‘list of assets of community value’, kept by the council. This means if the owner ever decides to sell, there will be a moratorium period before it goes onto the open market to give community groups a chance to raise the capital to bid for the asset.

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Voluntary sector is ‘failing its women’

January 27th, 2012

Tippa Naphtali

Seven in ten voluntary sector employees are female, yet just over four in ten charities are led by female CEOs or chairs. And in charities with turnover of £10m or more, women are in the top jobs at just 27 per cent of them.

These are just two of the damning statistics contained in Rowena Lewis’s explosive new report, the culmination of her research into women leaders in the sector as part of her Clore Social Fellowship.

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Changemakers is looking for young leaders from Newtown, Aston and Handsworth

January 27th, 2012

Tippa Naphtali

Changemakers are looking for three 16-25 year olds to participate in a 12 month leadership development programme starting in April 2012.

Participants will have access to 6 compulsory leadership training modules, along with dedicated 1:2:1 support from our staff team. The programme aims to unlock the leadership potential of young people by giving them skills development training and real-life leadership experiences that allows them to prepare for leading positive change in their communities.

Find out more about the programme here >