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The Grassroots Channel shares stories and ideas from active citizens. It certainly isn't party political but is designed to inspire and encourage others. It is produced by Podnosh and supported by the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network Primary Format : Community Radio Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Birmingham State/Province : Unknown Country : United Kingdom Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Grassroots Channel Podcasts Methings.com listings of Grassroots Channel Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Grassroots Channel A lifetime devoted to the community: A new podcast from the Grassroots Channel John Barron is 90 years old and has spent a lifetime working for his community. He has volunteered at St Mary’s Hospice in Sellypark since it opened, and also introduced the Annual Flag Day – a street collection day for the hospice – which he has been running for over 25 years and raised nearly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The reluctant activist: a new podcast from the Grassroots Channel This is the story of Michael Tye, the man who helped set up Aston Vision Ministries Association in 1984. The organisation aims to reach people in the community, particularly asylum seekers, by helping them with language and social integration. For his relentless work engaging the community through Aston Vision, Michael was nominated by Eunice McGhie-Belgrave for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A whole lot of courage: A new podcast for the Grassroots Channel When Suzanne Coward’s daughter Sarah, who has learning difficulties, turned 23, she realised she could use direct payment money to set up a cafe, Stepping Stones. Situated in Sutton Coldfield at the United Reform church, the cafe offers a day experience for people with learning difficulties to hang out, socialise and feel enabled to do [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Helping the community where we can: A new podcast from the Grassroots Channel This is the story of Dolores Pinkney who runs the Dojo project in Handworth. She has been working tirelessly for her community since she moved to Birmingham with her family in the 1960s, and now she has been nominated by Kevin Duffy for Birmingham City Council’s Local Hearts Awards in the active citizen category. She says [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Training Adults to understand Young People – a new podcast on the Grassroots Channel. Nicole White and Rourke Holmes have been training adults.  They  volunteer with different organisations in the Erdington Constituency of the City of Birmingham to help they appreciate how young people view the world. The aim is very simple, to improve the relationship between government services and the young people who use them in Erdington. The Forum began [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hawksley Young Volunteers: A new podcast on the Grassroots Channel Aimee Coakley first came across the Hawksley “young vols” as a small child.  She watched them working in her neighbourhood in Kings Norton in Birmingham and wanted to be one. Thanks to that experience she has traveled as far afield as France and India, cleaned streets, helped people keep their gardens tidy and supporting friends and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heavily Involved in Northfield – a new podcast for the Grassroots Channel Involve is Northfield’s Young Peoples Forum – it was set up in 2005 for 12-19-year-olds to meet monthly. Involve are given money by local government, which they can then distribute to young people to help them run various activities or projects which they would not otherwise have been able to do. Through this they help [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faith and climate change: A new podcast from the Grassroots Channel Four years ago, after running an Islam and the Environment Week, Maud Grainger decided looking at climate change with faith communities would be a great way to take action. The group Faith and Climate Change was set up by Maud Grainger with help from Keith Budden, who has nominated the group for Birmingham’s Local Hearts [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Britain a better place: a new podcast from the Grassroots Channel Noorin Ahktar wants to change Britain. She goes out interviewing the people at the top – leaders of the council, councillors, public service providers and holds them to account in a way accessible to her community. Her aim is to make sure some communities know about the changes being made in public services – she [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Refucast - the podcast for refugees - new on the Grassroots Channel Mikko Kapanen and Shauna Magunda are two students at UCE in Birmingham who used their final year project to experiment with podcasting to tell the stories of refugees in the city. This programme talks to them about how and why they did it and also hears excerpts from some of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Better Schools for Birmingham? New Podcast on the Grassroots Channel Naseem Akhtar is angry - quietly, productively, but all the same angry. She believes the families of Birmingham deserve better schools, schools which have greater aspirations for their pupils, schools which aim to do more than achieve an average outcome for children. Last month she launched a city wide campaign on the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pimps, prostitutes and Grandad’s Army - new podcast on the Grassroots Channel This is the story of Chris Hoare: a grandfather who’s worked for years to clear prostitution from the Waterworks Estate on the borders of Edgbaston and Ladywood in inner-city Birmingham. His neighbours were so fearful of the pimps that they asked Chris to step up and take action. To find out why [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clean Medina - the Jihad on Litter in Brum. New podcast. Does it seem extreme to declare a Jihad on litter? Not to a group in Small Heath in Birmingham. Clean Medina says that Muslim neighbourhoods in the city are far too messy and they want to change that. So they’ve launched a “struggle’ against rubbish and waste, and whilst they’re at it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The smell of trouble - Neighbourhood Policing in Birmingham - new podcast. “We’re not aiming high enough” is what the Chief Constable of the West Midlands tells the Grassroots Channel this time. We hear from Sir Paul Scott Lee as we return to the theme of communities and policing and look in detail at the community watch programme in Perry Common in Birmingham. Sue Beardsmore [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Big Green Challenge Hits Brum - new podcast NESTA was in Birmingham today to entice us into innovating. The Big Green Challenge is a two year climate change project with a £1 million pound prize at the end. Any community group (or similar) can win if they find a communal and repeatable way to cut CO2 emissions by 60%. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quinzone, Safe Haven and Community Policing - new podcast PC Bernie Flynn has been working with young people in Quinton in Birmingham consistently since 2001, merging policing with youth work. For him finding the right people for the job and giving them time to show respect and earn respect is at the heart of good community policing. Anti social behaviour in and around [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast: Solving a Stinking Mess in Bordesley Green Click here for more video and audio from the Grassroots Channel. If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do? Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Performance Reward Grant (NPRG) - a £10,000 pilot programme - to allow residents groups [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website About Brum podcast features social media surgeries Some of you may know that podnosh began as a podcasting business in 2005, with the Grassroots Channel - audio stories of active citizens in Birmingham. At the last social media surgery Christopher Woods interviewed me for what has become the first episode in his freshly minted About Brum podcast.  You can listen below, and it’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solving a stinking mess If you have a stinking brook in your front yard what do you do. Margaret Bannon of the Bordesley Green North Neighbourhood Forum took advantage of the Neighbourhood Programme Reward Grant (NPRG), a 10,000 pound pilot programme in Birmingham, to allow residents groups more control over money. ID=89 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Saint of Street Racing Is there a solution to street racing in Birmingham? Masood Ajaib of the Washwood Heath based community enterprise Commpact thinks there is. He has signed up for an experiment to find a communal way of turning a dangerous Saturday night on Landor Street into a peaceful pastime somewhere safe. ID=88 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website