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Big Society ideas: Kieran Dooley of the Fordbridge Tuesday Club in Solihull

Posted by Nick Booth on 21st September 2010
Kieran Dooley from Fordbridge

Kieran Dooley from Fordbridge

Kieran Dooley runs the Fordbridge Tuesday Club in Fordbridge, a neighbourhood of Chelmsley Wood in Solihull.  The club meets every Tuesday to allow local residents to tell local public servants about the problems that need solving in the area.  If people don’t have a problem, they wont come.

Kieran reckons it is very Big Society, an informal, direct and practical way for people and public servants to work together.

Click below to listen to Kieran’s explanation.

[podcast]http://rawm.podnosh.com/files/2010/09/KieranDooleyFordbridgeTuesdayClub.mp3[/podcast]

If you wont want to listen to the 2 and half minute conversation, here are some key ways he says it connects to the big society: (more…)

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How was it for you? Solihull and Birmingham considers the Big Society past and future

Posted by Nick Booth on 20th September 2010

Some of the points that came out of as series of  table discussions about Big Society, from an eavesdrop wander around the room…  (the points are broad because people were partly head dumping).

Every Voice Counts events

One table -

  • Some admiration for community groups that have avoided chasing grants to maintain their independence.  We  need to understand their business model.
  • Neighbourhood manager describing how they have already been making small amounts of money available to local community groups which comes direct from local government budgets (more…)

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BIG SOCIETY –what does it mean to you? Helga Edstrom Economic and Social Inclusion GOWM

Posted by Nick Booth on 20th September 2010
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Helga Edstrom is responsible for  Economic and Social Inclusion at Government Office for the West Midlands.   This some notes from her presentation to our event in Solihull.
These events allow a  West Midlands wide discussion of how the Big Society connects to existing work and what it will mean for the future.
Helga Hedstrom:
Helga has a bit of a cold, but warns that if you expect to find out exactly what Big Society is today then you’ll be disappointed, it’s in development…
“I will be challenging though because we have some space to think…” (more…)

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