Birmingham Settlement's Big Lottery, Basis - City Spirit Programme launch event takes place on 30 October.

City Spirit is a grassroots response to overcoming the issues and needs affecting the most excluded communities within the city of Birmingham. The project will work closely with limited number of BME front line organisations, providing on going and in-depth help and support to develop capacity building and infrastructure needs to continue delivering services and working directly with the most excluded communities within Birmingham's inner city wards.

Voluntary and Community groups in the Northfield and Edgbaston constituencies you are invited to a FREE workshop on

Thursday 30 October
From 10.00am till 1.00pm

Venue: Holloway Hall, the Holloway, Bartley Green, Birmingham, B31 1TT

FREE Lunch and refreshments provided .

It does not matter if you have never been before

Come along to this confidential, independent workshop delivered by a professional community consultant who has 25yrs of financial and fundraising experience to support you.

Bring your board/trustee members along as well.

Help Brake, the road safety charity, to make the Week a success and protect the ones you love!

Every day on UK roads, nine people are killed and nearly ten times as many are seriously injured.  Help save lives and to support people bereaved by road crashes by taking part in National Road Safety Week.

Whatever you choose as your theme and activity for the Week, the important thing is to do something and, ideally, to help Brake raise funds for families bereaved by road crashes.

How to get involved...

The Third Sector Assembly has teamed up with volunteers from the Birmingham bloggers group to show voluntary and community groups how to make best use of social media. It doesn't matter if you are the head of communications at a major charity or an active citizen in your neighbourhood, if you're at all curious come along.

No boring speeches, no jargon

Improve your chances of winning contracts, create a more sustainable
outlook for your organisation and build a more robust track record

Join us on 28th October @ The Studio, Birmingham City Centre.

Refreshments from 9.30 am / start 10 am / finish 4 pm

Benefit from the expertise of professionals who are currently supporting the bme third sector to improve their competitive edge and organisational performance to access more funding opportunities.

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