Meet a formidable member of the Birmingham Community Empowerment network. This time on the Grassroots Channel we tell the story of Maureen Murphy and her decades of campaigning to protect and improve her neighbourhood in Sutton Coldfield. Plus of course feedback from you the listeners. Supported by the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network and produced by [...]

 

 Just a Mum Who Cares [7:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Programme 4 from the Grassroots Channel tells the story of Neville Lilly and how he turned his childhood passion for gardening into a project which has already helped more than a thousand Birmingham children.more->Not content with that, he has now built a social enterprise selling recycled timber and a huge range of new products. Also [...]

 

 The Garden Fence to Natter Over [7:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

More stories for people who care about where they live. The third programme from the Grassroots Channel tells the story of Masood Yasin – a young man in Birmingham who decided he had a choice to make: should he leave his own neighbourhood for somewhere ‘better’ or step up and take action.
more->Masood explains why and [...]

 

 Become a Decision Maker [7:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This time the Grassroots Channel brings you the story of how a threat was used to transform a neighbourhood.
more-> Emma Woolf talks about the campaign to protect Cotteridge Park in Birmingham, how school children got involved and how it blossomed into so much more than a three week spat with local politicians. Produced by Podnosh [...]

 

 Fun is the most important thing. [6:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is the first podcast for the Grassroots Channel – a series of programmes sponsored by the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network.
We’re starting with stories of active citizens in Britain’s second largest city: Birmingham.
Barbara Willis Brown tells us how she worked to rebuild communities by confronting prejudice.more-> A tennis project in the city brought young black [...]

 

 Cuckoos in a white middle class nest [6:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download