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		<title>Charities hit by triple whammy of financial pressures during the recession</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2012/03/charities-hit-by-triple-whammy-of-financial-pressures-during-the-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2012/03/charities-hit-by-triple-whammy-of-financial-pressures-during-the-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charities faced a &#8220;toxic mix of circumstances&#8221; over the past year, with increased demand for services, rising costs and an unprecedented fall in income, our Chief Executive said today. New figures from NCVO depict a charity sector struggling with the worst recession for fifty years. The figures, released today for the first time, show that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New CN4B website launched</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/09/weve-listened-new-cn4b-website-under-development/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/09/weve-listened-new-cn4b-website-under-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Link-Up Updates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The CN4B website will be undergoing redevelopment over the next 10 to 14 days in response to your comments and suggestions.

The revamped website will have an easier navigation and layout, clearer presentation and larger font, improved article archives, better member facilities and user forums.]]></description>
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		<title>Information: Police crime mapping site</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/09/police-crime-mapping-site-launched-and-live/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/09/police-crime-mapping-site-launched-and-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police.uk allows you to look at crime data by place name postcode or address, so really handy if you are looking to move, but also quite a handy content idea for your Hyperlocal site. Enter your postcode, town, village or street into the search box below, and get instant access to street-level crime maps and data, as well as details of your local policing team and beat meetings.]]></description>
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		<title>BBC 3 Young Question Time (The Riots)</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/08/bbc-3-young-question-time-the-riots/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/08/bbc-3-young-question-time-the-riots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["We each have a social responsibility to calm any community tensions as responsible members of our communities. We must not allow all the community cohesion work we have been involved with since the 2005 disturbances to be lost. The real test of community cohesion is NOW."]]></description>
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		<title>Have your say on transforming local infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/08/have-your-say-on-transforming-local-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/08/have-your-say-on-transforming-local-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birmingham Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consultation & Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funding & Services]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chamberlain Forum have set up a website to try and help share information and ideas relating to the transforming local infrastructure bid in Birmingham:  www.btli.net

If you have links, useful documents and information, or thoughts and opinions you would like to share, please get in touch with us at info@chamberlainforum.org.]]></description>
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		<title>Event Report: Hands Up 4 Mentoring</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/08/event-report-hands-up-4-mentoring/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/08/event-report-hands-up-4-mentoring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Learning & Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Active Citizens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The event at the Deaf Cultural Centre was held in July 2011 to share the learning from the CN4B peer mentoring pilot programme and to showcase mentoring relationships between community networks.]]></description>
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		<title>Government should use voluntary bodies &#8216;to reconnect with society&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/07/government-should-use-voluntary-bodies-to-reconnect-with-society/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/07/government-should-use-voluntary-bodies-to-reconnect-with-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civil Support]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voluntary organisations can help the government reconnect with society and make it more responsive, according to one of the authors of a collection of new essays on the voluntary sector published this week.

Caroline Slocock, director of the think tank Civil Exchange, says in the essay that civil society has a "deep well of knowledge and social capital on which central and local government can draw".]]></description>
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		<title>Funding Round-Up: Various sources</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/07/funding-round-up-various-sources-2/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/07/funding-round-up-various-sources-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Funding & Services]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A round up of a number of funding opportunities currently available to voluntary and not-for-profit organisations and community groups. Compiled from various sources and correct at the time of going to print.

Links have been provided to all guidelines and application pages of the funders we have listed in this article.]]></description>
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		<title>Most annual reports break law on public benefit reporting, Charity Commission finds</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/07/most-annual-reports-break-law-on-public-benefit-reporting-charity-commission-finds/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/07/most-annual-reports-break-law-on-public-benefit-reporting-charity-commission-finds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report suggests many trustees are unaware of public benefit requirements for charities. Nearly nine out of 10 charity annual reports do not comply with the law on public benefit reporting, according to research published yesterday by the Charity Commission.]]></description>
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		<title>Free office space for voluntary sector organisations</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/free-office-space-for-voluntary-sector-organisations/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/free-office-space-for-voluntary-sector-organisations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Avire works with national charities such as Oxfam and NCT on projects to give them commercial space. They have recently let some offices in Halesowen to Black Country Foodbank and The Milli Foundation on rent free leases. Avire currently have a large 12-storey office block with availability - from small office suites up to complete floors.]]></description>
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		<title>Guide to fundraising through social media launched</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/guide-to-fundraising-through-social-media-launched/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/guide-to-fundraising-through-social-media-launched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Learning & Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New document from the Institute of Fundraising and telecomms giant BT advises on etiquette for Twitter and Facebook. 

The Institute of Fundraising has teamed up with the telecommunications company BT to produce a guide to fundraising using social media.]]></description>
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		<title>New: CN4B Quick RSS News updates page</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/new-cn4b-quick-rss-news-updates-page/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/new-cn4b-quick-rss-news-updates-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[General News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have launched a new page on the CN4B website which lists a series of news feeds by catergory. You will always see the most up-to-date news from the sources listed. 

From this page you can access real-time news feeds from a number of selected websites and blogs. These include neighbourhood and local information / updates, and government, regional or national news.]]></description>
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		<title>Child protection and BME communities</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/child-protection-and-bme-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/06/child-protection-and-bme-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Youth & Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protecting children from BME backgrounds is an increasingly pressing issue. The growing ‘diversity’ of the youth population, greater calls for inter-agency working, and the relative absence of ‘race’ in policy and guidance mean it’s important to understand what role ethnicity plays in decision making.

To help provide an overview of these issues, brap have produced ‘Child protection and BME communities’.]]></description>
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		<title>Funding Round-Up: Various sources</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/05/funding-round-up-various-sources/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/05/funding-round-up-various-sources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 09:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Funding & Resources]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A round up of a number of funding opportunities currently available to voluntary and not-for-profit organisations and community groups. Compiled from various sources and correct at the time of going to print.

Links have been provided to all guidelines and application pages of the funders we have listed in this article.]]></description>
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		<title>Cut your postal saving by 40%</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/05/cut-your-postal-saving-by-40/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/05/cut-your-postal-saving-by-40/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 10:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a net saving of £800,000 on postage costs since 2009 Birmingham City Council (BCC) is now offering the opportunity to other public sector bodies and local businesses to share the benefits of its Royal Mail contract.]]></description>
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		<title>SEVEN UP Group is sowing the seeds of success</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/05/seven-up-community-group-is-sowing-the-seeds-of-success/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/05/seven-up-community-group-is-sowing-the-seeds-of-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 10:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Youth & Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children, the Seven Up team will tell you, do not come in boxes, nor do they fit in boxes. 

In 2005 this group of Handsworth families set about creating alternative environments and stretch to fit services to help local children and young people to flourish and grow. ]]></description>
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		<title>New mass movement for a happier society launches</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/04/new-mass-movement-for-a-happier-society-launches-with-rallying-call-to-action/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/04/new-mass-movement-for-a-happier-society-launches-with-rallying-call-to-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CN4B Admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Networks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NCVO have signed up in support of Action for Happiness, which launched on 12th April 2011. The initiative aims at a fundamentally different culture, where people care more for the happiness of others.

It is calling for people to pledge to create more happiness in the world and take positive action to promote happiness in whatever way they can - at home, at work or in the community.]]></description>
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		<title>Health and safety made simple on-line</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/04/health-and-safety-made-simple-on-line/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/04/health-and-safety-made-simple-on-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think health and safety has to be complicated - it doesn’t. This new website developed by The Health &#038; Safety Executive will make it easier for you to comply with the law and manage health and safety in your business. For many businesses, all that’s required is a basic series of tasks. The site will take you through the steps and help you make sure you have done what you need to - and no more.]]></description>
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		<title>Trustee Bank from NCVO</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/03/trustee-bank-from-ncvo/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/03/trustee-bank-from-ncvo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trustee Bank offers a free service to advertise or view trustee vacancies. It also provides information about becoming a trustee and on recruitment and induction practices. There are approximately 820,000 charity trustees in England and Wales. This area of Trustee Bank will help you to find a vacancy and provides information on the roles and responsibilities of trustees.]]></description>
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		<title>Resident University online learning courses</title>
		<link>http://cn4b.net/2011/03/resident-university-online-learning-courses-2/</link>
		<comments>http://cn4b.net/2011/03/resident-university-online-learning-courses-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tippa Naphtali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On-line learning courses aim to help capture some of that know-how of resident experts and making the material from our course available 24-7 to complete at your own pace. Resident University is about learning from experience… seminars and workshops that give space for sharing knowledge between residents.]]></description>
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