Events

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.

Wednesday 8th October 2008
Faith and Finance Forum
8th October 2008
7.30-9.30pm
St. Faith and St. Laurence Church Harborne
On the corner of Croftdown Road and Balden Road


Chaired by Ven Hayward Osborne, Archdeacon of Birmingham

Speakers

Rev Patrick Gerard worked as a Business Planning Manager and Commercial Negotiator for British Gas in the UK, India and Brazil, before commencing ordination training in 2004. He has a particular interest in executive pay, as set out in his book Performance and Reward.
Canon John Nightingale retired last year as Vicar of Rowley Regis. He is a committee member of the Birmingham Jubilee Debt Campaign Group and has previously worked in Nigeria.
Simon Lee is a solicitor at Anthony Collins. He specialises (amongst other things) in social enterprise, and in advice to community regeneration organisations of varying sizes in the fields of governance, legal structures, and contracts. The firm has a passion for serving Faith Communities, and this area forms one of the firm's seven 'focus themes'
Muhammad Imran is the Development Education Manager at Islamic Relief. He sees his role as trying to build bridges of understanding between the world's rich and poor and between its many diverse communities. An ex teacher and traveller, he feels that it is only through meaningful interaction can prejudice be overcome.

There will be input from the speakers, time for refreshments and then a further session for questions and discussion.

All are welcome