Congrats to the NSPCC and Amazon for partnering up to shift a slice of our Christmas shopping activity into the charities coffers. This is a simple idea which must have involved solid cooperation from both parties. Set up your Amazon wishlist through this site and the affiliate share (no clear percentage) of the [...]

I’m really getting the giggles from the Lolpolitics from loldeirdre on flickr. I have my suspicions as to who’s behind this – but they’re clearly having so much fun I don’t want to spoil anything, ot even with a hatwink. If you don’t know who deirdre is try here. Other politicians can [...]

The photo of Katie Derham swaddled in bank notes is from the flickr part of the promotional package for the People’s £50 million. In the next two weeks the whole nation will be invited to vote on which of 4 communal projects should win £50 million from the Big Lottery fund.

I want the Black [...]

Christmas MarketBlogged with FlockTags: birminghamuk

I get excited by Christmas – as do the final year Students at Birmingham City University who’ve launched the video rich blog Turkey Brumsticks. It’ll form part of their final year journalism project. Spotted here and because of comments left here. If you see someone wondering around with camera and mic at [...]

A wonderful idea picked from work David Barrie was doing in Middlesborough. Designing a town/city/community/region around food supply. Perhaps this is a way forward for the  £50 million Lottery bid for the Black Country Urban Park.

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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Neighbourhoods: Collective responsibility for children and young people
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