An invitation extended to all residents, businesses and friends of the Lozells, Birchfield and East Handsworth neighbourhoods to attend the second annual People’s Conference.

The Conference will be held at 10.00 – 1.00 pm on Saturday March 3 2012 at City College Birmingham (Soho Road Handsworth Campus B21 9DP).

The Conference continues the theme ‘communities coming together’ - how, with fewer resources, residents, third sector and public sector organisations can work together to make Lozells, Handsworth and Birchfield better places in which to live and work.

People’s Conference 2011 succeeded in raising key themes and putting forward recommendations for addressing them.  We have been acting on those recommendations and are organising this Conference as a way of sharing with you what we have been doing as well as illustrating some of the exciting initiatives occurring across the ward.

Conference Agenda and Registration Details

10:00	Arrival and Registration
10:30	Welcome				Cllr. Waseem Zaffar
10:40	All Saints (area based project in Wolverhampton)				Frank Amadedon
10:50	Vision, Aims and Objectives  and Strategy				Sister Helen Ryan / Dilbagh Dhami
11:20	Good Stories
		Westminster School			Maneer Samad
		Big Dave Gauder			Dave Gauder
		CSPAN			Panikos & Eaton
		Neighbourhood Forums			Rajinder Rattu
11:45	Coffee Break
12:00	Localisation and Neighbourhoods				Ifor Jones - BCC Director of Constituency ServicesDr. Mushaq Ally – BCC Assistanct Director Equalities
12:20	Governance				Derek Douglas Saeed Saidul Haque
12:40	Good Stories 2
		Community Safety			Amelia Murray
		Environmental & Housing Forum			Jo Burrill
		Bangla Food Heritage Project			Aftab Rahman
1:00	Vote of thanks				Khalid Mahmood MP
1:10	Lunch & Networking

I hope you will also be able to pass this information to family, friends and colleagues who might not have been included in the mail-shot.

It would be helpful for catering purposes if you could indicate the likelihood of your attendance.

For any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me or Michael Brown of the North West Birmingham Development Agency on 0844 870 7982 or by email Michael Brown michael.brown@nwbda.org.uk

Posted on 20th February 2012 by Jo Burrill
Tags: big society, Birchfield, birchfield residentsw, Communities achieving together, community development trust, community first, community panel, michael brown, north west birmingham development agency, people's conference, resident involvement, waseem zaffar
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