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Being an effective committee / board member – May 25th

10th May 2010 by admin under Workshop     

May 25th, 6.00-8.30pm at the BMI, Birmingham City Centre

A workshop for all people who are involved in helping to run community groups, organisations or associations, or sit on local partnerships (including neighbourhood boards).   Facilitated by Wendy Walsh from Castle Vale Community Regeneration Service, and Tippa Naphtali from Chamberlain Forum, the workshop will look at the importance of having both the right knowledge and information, and the confidence and skills to take part effectively.

The session will explore

  • What is ‘good governance’
  • Being Positive (working relationships)
  • Key Documents (governing document, finance policies etc)
  • Effective Meetings (including roles & responsibilities)
  • Inclusive not Exclusive (equality issues)

Everyone will have the opportunity to begin a plan for action based upon learning from the session, and follow up support will be provided by Resident University.

To book a place, please call 07795 448 462, email info@chamberlainforum.org, or use the booking form below

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Influencing Decision Makers – Workshop March 2nd 9.30

5th February 2010 by Hannah under Workshop     

The next ‘Influencing Decision Makers’ workshop will be held on Tuesday March 2nd, 9.30-12.30 at the Council House.

This course is designed to help community and voluntary group members and individuals who represent community views become more effective at influencing local decisions on behalf of resident communities and communities of interest.

Learning

The course is designed to help you:

  • Identify – who local decision makers are, what kind of decisions you want to influence and how you can start to influence effectively
  • Understand – the importance of knowledge, skills and networks in effectively representing community views
  • Chart and map – your knowledge and skills in relation to influencing local decisions – and become aware of how to improve them
  • Appreciate more widely -  local democratic structures and how they work
  • Find out more – about the range of opportunities for getting involved, and where to go for advice and support
  • Consider tactics for influencing – from ‘community organising’ and social media to inter-personal skills
  • Develop your own strategy - for influencing based on your own priorities, and plan for future development based on your own strengths and needs

You can book place through the form below, or by emailing info@chamberlainforum.org. If you would like to have a chat about the workshop, please give us a call on 07795 448 462

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Young People and Democracy

12th January 2010 by admin under Research Project, Young Resident University     

In a recent survey of  conducted by YouGov, on behalf the Citizenship Foundation, 54% of young people aged between 14-25 said they did not trust their local MP to tell the truth.  In the same survey, 60% said they did not trust senior officials in their local council to tell the truth either.  Not a picture of a very healthy democracy!

However, despite levels of mistrust, politics is still seen as important, with the majority of people (59%) still believing the biggest way of participating in a democracy was to vote, and that politicians – as opposed to the media, pressure groups and businessess – should have the most power in society.

When it comes to who should be influencing politicians, a large majority (72%) thought that the public, should have the greatest amount of influence.

As part of a Community Research project, Resident University will be working with a group of youth groups and organisations to find out what young people in Birmingham think about citizenship, politics and democracy.  In particular, what they think about local decision making, and being involved at a neighbourhood and community level.

Each organisation will be supporting groups of young people to carry out their own research using a variety of different methods from film to surveys.

Resident University will then bring the groups back together to discuss the findings, and help to share them widely with other people.

To read the Citzenship Survey results in full, download the reports below.

Citizenship Survey Results

Citizenship Survey Summary

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