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Written by Paul Slatter
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Feb 21, 2008 at 02:20 PM |
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Residents University is organising a weekend packed full of information and learning for community and voluntary groups, active citizens and neighbourhood professionals. It is taking place on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th March at Birmingham University.
The event is a chance to hear from leading figures in central and local government, public services and neighbourhood groups about the future for neighbourhood management. There will also be workshops on new techniques and approaches, policies and funding.
You can book for one or both days and the event is FREE if you live or work in Birmingham. Lunch is included both days and everyone who attends will also get a free Neighbourhood Pack full of briefings, video and other useful
materials worth £50.
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Last Updated ( Mar 12, 2008 at 05:23 PM )
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Written by Laura Needham
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Feb 05, 2008 at 12:42 AM |
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More than nine out of ten elected local councillors, say they are ‘in touch’ with local issues... But nearly half of voters disagree. The Councillors' Commission report Representing the Future published in December last year confirmed the differece in views between councillors and the people they represent. Resident University will be looking in detail at how the role of local councillor is developing and the changes in powers the Government is proposing at its February 28 seminar: Councillors and Community Champions... |
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Last Updated ( Feb 14, 2008 at 11:30 AM )
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Written by Paul Slatter
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Jun 08, 2007 at 10:47 AM |
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Resident University started when residents from The Hague in Holland and Balsall Heath in Birmingham, England met. Both groups were leading campaigns to deal with gangs and drug-dealers, prostitutes and pimps in their neighbourhoods. They realised they had much in common. They formed an alliance called Residents for Regeneration (R4R). Their aim: to support the largely unrecognised experts in making neighbourhoods better places to live... the people that live there! | In The Hague and in Birmingham, residents found that it was no use just relying on the authorities to sort things out. Local people had to take a lead or nothing would have got much better. Residents, they said, should be treated as potential experts in neighbourhood renewal and neighbourhood management. R4R grew as resident groups in other countries joined. From Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy and other cities in England and Holland, residents had the same experience. Whilst city authorities across Europe seem to have run out of ideas, residents are making sustainable regeneration happen in many diverse neighbourhoods.
R4R held its first European Resident University, in Holland in 2004. The aim: ‘to let people living in neighbourhoods learn from each other and to let professionals hear what they have to say.’ The second R4R Resident University met in Birmingham for three days in September last year.
Groups in Birmingham have decided to make the Resident University an ongoing programme. The city's Chamberlain Forum is organising a series of seminars, study trips and other activities aimed at sharing and developing the know-how of neighbours in the city. |  At the Resident University in Birmingham in 2006 |
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Written by Paul Slatter
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Oct 16, 2007 at 08:28 PM |
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Welcome to the Resident University Blog Pages. A blog (short for weblog) is a web page where you can keep your own online diary. Sign up to Resident University (register on the site hime page just under where it says 'Login')and you can set up your own blog on the site: somewhere to add your thoughts and ideas! Registered users can create and edit blog items and decide whether other people can comment on your blog, or not.
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Last Updated ( Oct 28, 2007 at 12:30 AM )
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