Month: July 2006

Together We Can

In the first podcast from the boys at Kings Norton Boys’ School. In this episode 4 boys attend a conference at the NEC aimed at promoting active citizens around the UK.  Includes interviews with Hazel Blears MP & Beth Ford from the Chicago Police Department. Interviews were conducted by Chris Brown, Max Woolf, Ruairi Hay and Tom Caesar.

Once they are hooked – Grassroots Channel Podcast 14

Programme 14. Angling is just about catching fish – isn’t it? Apparently not. Andy Walker tells the story of how fishing rejuvenates young lives and protects communities from crime.

His Birmingham based organisation, Get Hooked On Fishing (redirect), is working in neighbourhoods across the city. With support from the Bournville Village Trust and the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, it is turning this hugely popular sport into an engine for social change.

Links:
Andy Walker’s contact details (dead link)
Get Hooked on Fishing in the Midlands (redirect)
The original Get Hooked on fishing organisation
Yardley Community Network (dead link)

https://podnosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/bcen060421fishing.mp3

We don’t like to go in the parks – Grassroots Channel Podcast 13

Programme 13 from the Grassroots Channel comes not from Birmingham but from Dortmund in Germany. We’ve been demonstrating podcasting to a group of young people from cities across Europe.

Listen to Simone and Ethel as they try podcasting for the first time and talk to other young people about homelessness, junkies and fear in the streets. This programme is produced with the support of the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network and Residents 4 Regeneration in Europe. Thanks too to Chris and Nathan, both boys from the Four Dwellings High School in Birmingham.

Links:
Residents 4 Regeneration in Europe (dead link)
Dortmund Nordstadt Festival – German site (Google Translation) (dead link)
Photo’s of Dortmund Nordstadt (dead link)
Dortmund in Wikipedia