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 [...]

 

 Refucast on the Grassroots Channel [18:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Less than 4 weeks ago I was sitting in the Birmingham office of Oxfam talking to them about how they might use podcasting and blogs etc to drive their part of the your voice against poverty campaign. With apparently little experience, but intelligence, energy enthusiam and passion they’ve already produced this blog and the [...]

This is our second podcast from Change in Progress, a gathering of UK based neighbourhood activists in Birmingham. This time Adam Askew from Oxfam UK tells us about the ten steps which can help you improve your public speaking, get your message across and manage those nerves.

If you’re looking for other [...]

 

 Oxfam expertise in public speaking from the Grassroots Channel podcast [5:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This programme is presented by two teenagers from Highgate in Birmingham. Earlier this month Stephen Hughes and Gareth Deeming spent a day in London talking to ministers and senior civil servants about young people and the communities where they live.

They had a few minutes with Baroness Andrews and recorded their conversation [...]

 

 Highgate Apprentices [6:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Last year I had a great time working with Kate Chapman and others in Frankley – helping children at Reaside School use podcasting to develop some varied radio dramas. Kate’s grown up job is as a radio drama producer for the BBC here in brum. She’s just been in touch to tell us there’s [...]

The final three New Year shorts for the Grassroots Channel podcast, all containing the condensed passions of people associated with the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network. Subscribe free for updates through iTunes or using the RSS feed.

Birmingham Passions 4: Big up Birmingham, speak up for disabled people, get the young helping [...]

 

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As 2006 ends & 2007 begins the Grassroots Channel offers up some shorts. Six pithy episodes which simply outline the different passions of people involved with the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network.

Birmingham Passions one: Hemp, citizens and headscarves. Contributors are Colin Preece Chestnuts Neighbourhood Forum, Adrian Addis [...]

 

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“Play is a every child’s human right”

After a decade or more working with after school clubs and play schemes Laura Watts established a new organisation in Birmingham called Dens of Equality. She wanted to help the families who found their children effectively barred from the pleasure of full blown play because they had some [...]

 

 Dens of Equality Grassroots Channel Podcast [9:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download