Archive for August, 2010

Event Report: Is Your Network Working

Support - join hands

The purpose of the event was to re-establish and build links with current, new and potential new members; share information about some of the existing CN4B support and information services, collect key issues facing network members and provide a number of workshops looking at particular areas of interest for network members and others present.

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Pride of Place: Brum’s first community market makes the news..

Food

The playwright and Archers’ scriptwriter Tim Stimpson is queuing for a wood-fired pizza in the car park of the Stirchley United Working Men’s Club. It’s not a particularly salubrious setting for Birmingham’s first community market.

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Small charities gain temporary reprieve from music charges

Music - Record Deck

Ten days ago the Chief Executives of NCVO, NAVCA and Volunteering England wrote to Government Ministers calling on them to protect the very smallest charities from new music charges. As a result, NCVO has learnt that the legislation due to be laid last week will now be delayed.

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Links and Stuff…

Computers - Mouse

We are continuously adding web links to the CN4B website so that you don’t have to hunt around for useful information and resources. Our new section on venue and room hire has now been added to our already comprehensive categories. Feel free to suggest others that you feel may be of use or interest to our visitors!

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Focus regeneration money on local assets, says study

Read Report

Public agencies may have been spending regeneration money on the wrong things, according to a think tank. Research by the Chamberlain Forum into regeneration investment in Birmingham shows places that benefitted from modest but well-targeted community initiatives experienced some of the biggest growth in property values over the past ten years.

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