Events

Saturday 25th October 2008
Birmingham Focus on Blindness - Charity Ghost Walk
7pm-11.30pm

Ghostly evening at the Haunted Dudley Castle to raise money for Birmingham Focus on Blindness.

Join us for a spooky tour of the castle and a spine-chilling supper in the Queen Mary suite.

£40 deposit and we ask you raise a further £60 to help us to maintain or improve the quality of life of people with a visual impairment.

Impress your friends by braving the supernatural, and raise money for a local charity!

For more information, contact Vicky on 0121 478 5229 or Victoria@birminghamfocus.org.uk, or visit our website www.birminghamfocus.org.uk

Birmingham Focus on Blindness is a registered charity, number 1065745.

Friday 24th October 2008
Advice Day for Voluntary and Community Groups
BBC Children in Need and a range of funders, including development agencies, are hosting an advice day for voluntary or community based groups who wish to apply for funding for work with children and young people. The day offers a chance to speak about funding
opportunities, how to apply and hear from young people themselves about what they think makes a good project. Delegates will be able to attend up to three seminar sessions on areas where they will find out how to show knowledge and understanding in order to submit a strong funding application.
It will be held at the Birmingham Midlands Institute in Birmingham on 24th October from 9.45 - 16.00. Attendance is free.
Visit http://www.bebirmingham.org.uk/community_news.php?id=87 for details on how to book.

Tuesday 21st October 2008
Empowerment Sharing - Policy and Practice Conference
The Community Development Foundation are holding a conference on Tuesday 21st October at the ICC in Birmingham. This dynamic and interactive day will include a
range of workshops and facilitated debates on key issues from Local action
on global environmental issues to tackle exclusion and inequalities. It will enable you to find out what the changes proposed in the new Empowerment White Paper mean for you.

Visit <http://www.cdf.org.uk/SITE/UPLOAD/DOCUMENT/empowerment.pdf> for more information or to reserve your place.

Monday 13th October 2008
Out of Many -We are One" A Musical Anthology
From 12.00noon - 3pm (doors open 11 am) A Black History Event organised by the Wheelchair Recycling Project will be held at Cerebral Palsy Midlands, 17 Victoria Road, Harborne, B17 0AQ. Music and a Banquette for all. Our Theme Message is "Disability access Secured" Telephone 427 3182 or 07957738887

Saturday 11th October 2008
CROSSING THE BRIDGE
At 6.30
This year, 2008/2009, The Edgbaston Constituency Residents Equality Network (ECREN), has worked in partnership with a customer involvement officer and Pro-Actors Ltd to put on an evening performance of an original play, 'Crossing the Bridge', on Saturday 11th October 2008 at the Cerebral Palsy Midlands Centre, 17 Victoria Road, Harborne, Birmngham B17.

Pro-Actors is an organisation founded by actor/director Toni Griffiths and writer/performer John Edgar. It is a resource providing creative services to industry, education, local government, service sectors and the wider community.

Pro-Actors is about empowerment, motivation, teamwork, problem solving and communication. They create workshops and programmes tailored specifically to the organisation's needs.

Crossing the Bridge involves younger and older people who are working together, despite their differences, to help develop mutual understanding and respect.

Crossing the Bridge tells the story of The Bridge, which, for the younger people, is their youth club. To the older community, it's an invaluable meeting place. Everybody needs the Bridge. Suddenly a property developer decides it would make a wonderful shopping centre. Only by working together as a team can the Bridge be saved.

The play is collectively devised and performed by a cast of all ages, including various range age of young people and our own older residents from the Harborne and Edgbaston ward, with a script by Pro-Actors Ltd who has done other projects with the Birmingham City Council linking younger and older people together.

Crossing the Bridge is an exciting and original play, complete with song, dance and even its very own villain. But most of all, it's about team work and how much we can achieve if we only work together.

The evening is a free and, to make the event even more special, there will be food after the performance as well as entertainment in the interval.

The Edgbaston Constituency Residents Equality Network are citizens of the Edgbaston Constituency who come together to work with Officers to help organise equality events for the Edgbaston Constituency. Projects are developed to bring awareness to our residents of the various issues that we may face due to age, race, disability or sexual orientation, and to explore solutions in making our communities better places to live.


Any further information, please contact Jennie Carter, Customer Involvement Officer, on 0121 303 5359.

Friday 10th October 2008
Free Training Event for Refugee Community Organisations
The Basis Project will be holding a free training event at Birmingham Voluntary Service Council in Digbeth on Friday 10th October, 10.30am - 4.00pm. There will be a choice of two out of four training workshops: Practical Fundraising Ideas, Finding evidence of need for projects, Meeting the grant funder's demands, and Understanding contracts and commissioning.
If you wish to attend, please return the attached booking form to David Hirst by Friday 26th September.