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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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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 ]

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 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 ]

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 ]

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 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 ]

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 ]

Tips on public speaking

It terrifies most of us so that's why this short podcast talks to Adam Askew of Oxfam on his steps to making public speaking work for you and your campaign. You can find the tips listed on our blog at www.podnosh.com/blog ID=77...

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[ Wed, 30 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT ]

Lobbying - the dark art demystified

Active citizens do it all the time, but what does it take to lobby effectively. This programme hears from two people about their experience of lobbying politicians and councillors as part campaigns for Friends of the Earth and with the CPRE to resist the expansion of Bristol Airport. You can find a list of their key tips at www.podnosh.com/blog ID=76...

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[ Thu, 24 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT ]

Black Patch Park

For four years Councillor Bob badham has been the villain thwarting the friends of Black Patch park in their campaign to protect this green space in Sandwell from industrial development. Now the council has changed it's plans and Simon Baddeley of the Friends comes face to face with Councillor Badham for their first real chance to discuss where they've come from and how they can work together in the future. ID=75...

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[ Tue, 15 May 2007 06:00:00 GMT ]

Lisa Tarbuck, networks and community safety.

More on the future of community networks in Birmingham, including thoughts from the Birmingham Community Safety Partnership, plus Lisa Tarbuck in Brierley Hill on hoodies, adolescence the National Youth Theatre and stronger communities. ID=74...

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[ Thu, 10 May 2007 04:00:00 GMT ]

Community Networks - The Future

In this programme the Bishop of Birmingham steps up to make the case for community networks in Birmingham. The Rt Reverend David Urquhart tells the channel that those in power need to find the money to allow networks to continue to benefit the city. His comments follow on from a report on Diversity networks in Birmingham and as the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network (which funds this podcast channel) finds itself with reduced money which may end in 5 months. ID=73...

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[ Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:30:00 GMT ]

The Highgate apprentices challenge the government

In this programme two teenagers from Highgate in Birmingham challenge the government to help them find new ways to support young people. Gareth Deeming and Stephen Hughes have recently returned from spending a day with ministers and civil servants in London. They want support to get the training and encouragment they need to move their lives forward. The idea they are pushing is one developed with an organisation called SCAWDI. The aim is to create a community apprenticeship which combines yo...

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[ Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:00:00 GMT ]

Shantytown Shuffle

How one community organised and campaigned its way from living in wooden shacks in Barcelona to their own newly built apartment blocks. Chris Bongard tells the story of fledgling street level democracy emerging in Spain at a time when the country was just leaving the shadow of a Franco, the fascist dictator. Plus impressions of what people love about both Edgbaston and Kings Heath in Birmingham. ID=70...

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[ Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:00:00 GMT ]

Made in Birmingham by Digital Citizens

This programme has been mostly made by the people of Birmingham. On February 14th 2007 we had a very fine day in Victoria square at the first birthday bash of Digital Birmingham. For this programme the visitors to the marquue recorded their comments on why they love their neighbourhood and then had a go at editing their own words. Almost to a man, woman and child this was their first go at digital editing, proof that you can do it too. ID=69...

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[ Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT ]

Beth Kanter on Online Fundraising

Beth Kanter of the Sharing Foundation explains how they used the internet to raise 100,000 dollars for children in Cambodia. Beth is an expert on the internet and non-profit organisations and in this podcast she talks about how you can combine tools such as widgets with the power of your networks, whether real or virtual, to encourage people to give money to support to your cause. It is a companion podcast to a pdf we have already put up on the Grassroots Channel which gives some beginners tips...

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[ Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMT ]

Money Talks at the Northfield Young People's Forum

Jenni Rowley and Selina Okunnu of the Northfield Young People's Forum talk to us about how power is shifting towards the young people of Birmingham. From April 2007 the forum, run by 11 to 19 year olds, will have up to 80,000 pounds to offer as grants to the young people of this south Birmingham constituency. There is also an update on Get Hooked on Fishing. ID=68...

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[ Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMT ]

Simple Online Fundraising PDF

This is not an audio file but a written document which guides you through some simple things you can do to raise funds online. It is aimed at community groups who are not registered as charities. This b:cen briefing is a support document for the next programme on the Grassroots Channel which tells the story of how one person raised thousands using the internet and their network of friends and suporters. ID=66...

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[ Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:00:00 GMT ]

Birmingham Passions 6

Our sixth and final feast of passion, finding out the many motivators for the people from the Bimringham Community Empowerment Network. Story telling resumes with the next programme from the Grassroots Channel. ID=65...

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[ Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:00:00 GMT ]

Birmingham Passions 5

More short and simple explanations of what motivates the passionate people of Birmingham. ID=64...

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[ Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:00:00 GMT ]

Birmingham Passions 4

In the fourth of the Grassroots Channel's New Year quickies, three more people involved with the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network answer the question: what is you passion? ID=63...

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[ Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:00:00 GMT ]

Birmingham Passions 3

Part 3 of our New Year 2007 exploration of the personal passions of the people from the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network. ID=62...

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[ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:00:00 GMT ]

Birmingham Passions 2

The second of six short programmes on the passions which drive b:cen members. Normal story telling will resume in the New Year. ID=61...

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[ Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:25:00 GMT ]

Perfect Play in Birmingham

Dens of Equality is built on a simple idea - that for children play is a human right. Its mission is to make play totally inclusive and accessible - regardless of the needs or a individual child. It does this through supporting a network of autonomous dens, groups of parents who can raise funds and bring their skills and passion to bear in their own neighbourhood, helping their children, play workers and families. ID=59...

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[ Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:30:00 GMT ]

Birmingham Passions 1

The first of six pithy programmes to get us into a new year. Normally we would tell you full blown stories of active citizens in Birmingham and if you check our archive you'll find some crackers. With these shorts we take a handful of people associated with the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network and ask one simple question: What is your passion? ID=60...

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[ Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:30:00 GMT ]

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