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The Grassroots Channel shares stories and ideas from active citizens. It certainly isn't party political but is designed to inspire and encourage others. It is produced by Podnosh and supported by the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network

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Helping the community where we can: A new podcast from the Grassroots Channel

This is the story of Dolores Pinkney who runs the Dojo project in Handworth. She has been working tirelessly for her community since she moved to Birmingham with her family in the 1960s, and now she has been nominated by Kevin Duffy for Birmingham City Council’s Local Hearts Awards in the active citizen category. She says [...]...

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[ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:24:02 +0000 ]

Making Britain a better place: a new podcast from the Grassroots Channel

Noorin Ahktar wants to change Britain. She goes out interviewing the people at the top – leaders of the council, councillors, public service providers and holds them to account in a way accessible to her community. Her aim is to make sure some communities know about the changes being made in public services – she [...]...

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[ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:21:02 +0000 ]

A whole lot of courage: A new podcast for the Grassroots Channel

When Suzanne Coward’s daughter Sarah, who has learning difficulties, turned 23, she realised she could use direct payment money to set up a cafe, Stepping Stones. Situated in Sutton Coldfield at the United Reform church, the cafe offers a day experience for people with learning difficulties to hang out, socialise and feel enabled to do [...]...

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[ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:20:42 +0000 ]

The reluctant activist: a new podcast from the Grassroots Channel

This is the story of Michael Tye, the man who helped set up Aston Vision Ministries Association in 1984. The organisation aims to reach people in the community, particularly asylum seekers, by helping them with language and social integration. For his relentless work engaging the community through Aston Vision, Michael was nominated by Eunice McGhie-Belgrave for [...]...

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[ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:20:39 +0000 ]

Faith and climate change: A new podcast from the Grassroots Channel

Four years ago, after running an Islam and the Environment Week, Maud Grainger decided looking at climate change with faith communities would be a great way to take action. The group Faith and Climate Change was set up by Maud Grainger with help from Keith Budden, who has nominated the group for Birmingham’s Local Hearts [...]...

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[ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:32:43 +0000 ]

A lifetime devoted to the community: A new podcast from the Grassroots Channel

John Barron is 90 years old and has spent a lifetime working for his community. He has volunteered at St Mary’s Hospice in Sellypark since it opened, and also introduced the Annual Flag Day – a street collection day for the hospice – which he has been running for over 25 years and raised nearly [...]...

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[ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:30:18 +0000 ]

Heavily Involved in Northfield – a new podcast for the Grassroots Channel

Involve is Northfield’s Young Peoples Forum – it was set up in 2005 for 12-19-year-olds to meet monthly. Involve are given money by local government, which they can then distribute to young people to help them run various activities or projects which they would not otherwise have been able to do. Through this they help [...]...

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[ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:51:19 +0000 ]

Hawksley Young Volunteers: A new podcast on the Grassroots Channel

Aimee Coakley first came across the Hawksley “young vols” as a small child. She watched them working in her neighbourhood in Kings Norton in Birmingham and wanted to be one. Thanks to that experience she has traveled as far afield as France and India, cleaned streets, helped people keep their gardens tidy and supporting friends and [...]...

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[ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:42:13 +0000 ]

Training Adults to understand Young People – a new podcast on the Grassroots Channel.

Nicole White and Rourke Holmes have been training adults. They volunteer with different organisations in the Erdington Constituency of the City of Birmingham to help they appreciate how young people view the world. The aim is very simple, to improve the relationship between government services and the young people who use them in Erdington. The Forum began [...]...

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[ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:01:22 +0000 ]

About Brum podcast features social media surgeries

Some of you may know that podnosh began as a podcasting business in 2005, with the Grassroots Channel - audio stories of active citizens in Birmingham. At the last social media surgery Christopher Woods interviewed me for what has become the first episode in his freshly minted About Brum podcast. You can listen below, and it’s [...]...

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[ Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:10:34 +0000 ]

Podcast: Solving a Stinking Mess in Bordesley Green

Click here for more video and audio from the Grassroots Channel. If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do? Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Performance Reward Grant (NPRG) - a £10,000 pilot programme - to allow residents groups [...]...

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[ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:18:20 +0000 ]

Solving a stinking mess

If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do. Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Programme Reward Grant (NPRG), a 10,000 pound pilot programme in Birmingham, to allow residents groups more control over money. ID=89...

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[ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT ]

Cracking crime one fridge at a time.

There is an established link between grime and crime, which is why Kingstanding Neighbourhood Forum is using public money to crack crime one fridge at a time. This podcast, and the youtube video you can, see explain how the forum has been using 10,000 pounds from an experiment called the Neighbourhood Performance Reward Grant. ID=87...

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[ Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:01:00 GMT ]

The Saint of Street Racing

Is there a solution to street racing in Birmingham? Masood Ajaib of the Washwood Heath based community enterprise Commpact thinks there is. He has signed up for an experiment to find a communal way of turning a dangerous Saturday night on Landor Street into a peaceful pastime somewhere safe. ID=88...

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[ Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:01:00 GMT ]

Birmingham Sparkbrook the experiment

Neville Davis of the Sparkbrook Neighbourhood Forum in Birmingham talks about the pro and cons of a huge effort they made to clean up rancid sites in their neighbourhood, all with a 10,000 pound grant from the Birmingham Community Safety Partnership in the form of the Neighbourhood Performance Reward Grant. This experiment plans to give residents control of public money and reward them with more money if they hit targets. ID=86...

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[ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT ]

Quinzone, Safe Haven and Community Policing - new podcast

PC Bernie Flynn has been working with young people in Quinton in Birmingham consistently since 2001, merging policing with youth work. For him finding the right people for the job and giving them time to show respect and earn respect is at the heart of good community policing. Anti social behaviour in and around [...]...

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[ Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:38:22 +0000 ]

Neighbourhood Police - beyond the clip round the earhole.

PC Bernie Flynn has been working with young people in Quinton in Birmingham consistently and for years. For him finding the right people and giving them time to show respect and earn respect is at the heart of community policing. Anti social behaviour in and around his patch has fallen by 40% and in this podcast he explain how that has happened. ID=85...

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[ Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT ]

Does Birmingham have the million pound eco innovator

The Big Green Challenge is a two year climate change project with a 1 million pound prize at the end. Any community group (or similar) can win if they find a communal and repeatable way to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent. Easy then! This podcast is from the Birmingham launch event (backed by Nesta and Unltd) and we hear what is expected of competitors and why one or two community groups think it may be the wrong idea. ID=84...

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[ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:00:00 GMT ]

The Big Green Challenge Hits Brum - new podcast

NESTA was in Birmingham today to entice us into innovating. The Big Green Challenge is a two year climate change project with a £1 million pound prize at the end. Any community group (or similar) can win if they find a communal and repeatable way to cut CO2 emissions by 60%. [...]...

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[ Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:24:31 +0000 ]

The smell of trouble - Neighbourhood Policing in Birmingham - new podcast.

“We’re not aiming high enough” is what the Chief Constable of the West Midlands tells the Grassroots Channel this time. We hear from Sir Paul Scott Lee as we return to the theme of communities and policing and look in detail at the community watch programme in Perry Common in Birmingham. Sue Beardsmore [...]...

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[ Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:58:54 +0000 ]

The smell of trouble - Neighbourhood Policing in Birmingham

We must aim higher is what the Chief Constable of the West Midlands tells the Grassroots Channel this time. We hear from Sir Paul Scott Lee as we return to the theme of communities and policing and look in detail at the community watch programme in Perry Common in Birmingham where Sue Beardsmore talks to Mary Harvey and Sheila Barker of the Witton Lodge Community Association. Also scroll back on the channel to find a written pdf briefing on Neighbourhood Policing. ID=83...

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[ Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT ]

Neighbourhood Policing briefing

This pdf written briefing sets out where the ideas behind Neighbourhood policing have come from and what they might mean, including examples from the West Midlands largest city Birmingham. It relates to our earlier programmes I am the grass now and the smell of trouble. ID=82...

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[ Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT ]

Clean Medina - the Jihad on Litter in Brum. New podcast.

Does it seem extreme to declare a Jihad on litter? Not to a group in Small Heath in Birmingham. Clean Medina says that Muslim neighbourhoods in the city are far too messy and they want to change that. So they’ve launched a “struggle’ against rubbish and waste, and whilst they’re at it [...]...

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[ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:23:50 +0000 ]

The Jihad on Litter

Does it seem extreme to declare a Jihad on litter? Not to a group in Small Heath in Birmingham. Clean Medina says that Muslim neighbourhoods in the city are far to messy and they want to change that. So they have launched a struggle against rubbish and waste, and whilst they on the case, they also say they reclaim Jihad as a positive force. ID=81...

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[ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:30:00 GMT ]

Pimps, prostitutes and Grandad’s Army - new podcast on the Grassroots Channel

This is the story of Chris Hoare: a grandfather who’s worked for years to clear prostitution from the Waterworks Estate on the borders of Edgbaston and Ladywood in inner-city Birmingham. His neighbours were so fearful of the pimps that they asked Chris to step up and take action. To find out why [...]...

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[ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:14:08 +0000 ]

The Pimp, the Prostitute and Grandad's army (yes it is clean)

The story of Chris Hoare, a grandfather who's worked for years to clear prostitution from the Waterworks Estate on the borders of Edgbaston and Ladywood in inner-city Birmingham. His neighbours were so fearful of the pimps that they asked Chris to step up and take action. He agreed on condition he could do it his way - and that was to recruit a small army of grandfathers. ID=80...

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[ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT ]

Better Schools for Birmingham? New Podcast on the Grassroots Channel

Naseem Akhtar is angry - quietly, productively, but all the same angry. She believes the families of Birmingham deserve better schools, schools which have greater aspirations for their pupils, schools which aim to do more than achieve an average outcome for children. Last month she launched a city wide campaign on the [...]...

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[ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:42:48 +0000 ]

Better Birmingham Schools

Naseem Akhtar is a serial activist. Now she is turning her attention to schools in Birmingham. She wants to know why the results are not better. So this time on the Grassroots Channel we ask what she expects and try and find out why she is willing to tackle such a tricky problem. ID=79...

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[ Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:00:00 GMT ]

Refucast - the podcast for refugees - new on the Grassroots Channel

Mikko Kapanen and Shauna Magunda are two students at UCE in Birmingham who used their final year project to experiment with podcasting to tell the stories of refugees in the city. This programme talks to them about how and why they did it and also hears excerpts from some of [...]...

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[ Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:41:55 +0000 ]

Refugee Podcast from Birmingham

Shauna Magunda and Mikko Kappinen are two Birmingham based students experimenting with podcasting to tell the stories of people who arrived in the city as refugees. Refucast was their final degree at the University of Central England. The Grassroots Channel talks to them both about why it made sense to them and and hears from some of the people who's stories inspired the students and formed the first programmes on Refucast. ID=78...

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[ Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:30:00 GMT ]

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