Posts Tagged ‘Birmingham Networks’

BBC 3 Young Question Time (The Riots)

Inner City Riots

“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.”

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Peace Rally in Summerfield Park

united birmingham people

United Birmingham has organised a peace event in Summerfield Park, starting at 3pm tomorrow (August 14), which is open to all-comers and supported by faith and community organisations.

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Time-banking

TimeBank Volunteers

The legal practitioner and social innovator Edgar Cahn proposed that the currency of our ‘core economy’ was, quite simply, time – the precious, finite resource that we invest into our families, friends and communities – a concept which he dubbed the ‘Time Dollar’. He set up the Time Dollar Institute in the 1980s, which pioneered the use of time dollars in the areas of youth justice and legal aid, wherein recipients of legal advice paid in time dollars, accumulated by spending time on projects that were of benefit to the neighbourhoods surrounding the law school.

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Office Space Facilties and Business Support

Office Furniture - Desk

Business support available for the 3rd sector in the following areas, including E-commerce, IT- web development and generating traffic through Search engine optimisation, Marketing, HR and Business development.

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Harshest ever Birmingham spending cuts approved

Birmingham City Council House

The harshest spending cuts in Birmingham City Council’s 173-year history were approved as Tory and Liberal Democrat councillors agreed to slash public services by an eye-watering £212 million. A long and rowdy council meeting heard claims that next year’s budget would unfairly hit children and the poor.

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