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A National Education Service: Birmingham SEA Meeting with Melissa Benn

Tuesday, 12 February 2019 from 19:00-21:00

Labour’s plan for a National Education Service ‘from cradle to career’ offers a radical new direction after the disastrous years of Conservative education policies. The NES 10 Point Charter establishes the principles and now the process has begun of translating them into concrete policies.

Melissa Benn is a leading activist and writer on education. She is chair of Comprehensive Future. Her books include ‘School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education’ and, just published, ‘Life Lessons: The Case for a National Education Service’.

The Socialist Educational Association is affiliated to the Labour Party.
Visit the SEA website at: www.socialisteducationalassociation.org
Birmingham SEA is active in the Labour Party in Birmingham and the West Midlands.
Contact Birmingham SEA at birminghamsea@gmail.com or follow our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/brumsea

Hope and Change Community Day

Come and tell us about what you need in the area. We want to find Active Communities and the people who bring about change in their communities. We want to support lasting change for healthier diets and to improve all our wellbeing.

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Agenda for the Joint Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East & Balsall Heath West Ward Meeting – 6th Feb

The agenda for February’s Ward Forum has been released. All local residents can attend, no booking or appointment is necessary.

Each ward has a Ward Forum. The ward’s Councillors sit on the forum.

Ward Forums focus on the issues, priorities and decisions important to people in their local area. They represent the area and feed information back to their Constituency Committee.

Ward Forums are one way you can get involved in the decisions that affect your neighbourhood. You are welcome to go along to your local Ward Forum meeting. View Ward Forum meeting dates, agendas and minutes.

Ward Forums also:

  • make comments on behalf of ward residents on significant planning applications which affect the ward
  • enable community engagement, debate and action by coordinating the work of councillors with neighbourhood forums, residents associations and neighbourhood, community or parish councils
  • work with other wards to engage with partners, such as the police

Find out more about Birmingham’s constitution.

Caring for Carers

Are you caring for, or have you previously cared for, a loved one, a friend, or family member?

Come and join us at Caring For Carers Community Event, 5th February 2019, 12.30pm-2pm, Balsall Heath Church Centre

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Free Performances

The GAP is proud to announce its Spring 2019 production of a new play based in Birmingham funded by the Arts Council of England – The Silence.

Based partly in 1970’s Birmingham and partly in contemporary times, this bold and unflinching piece of writing by playwright Chris Cooper, draws forward one Irish girl’s experience of a shameful, largely hidden period in the city’s history – the mass blame of the Irish after the Birmingham Pub Bombings – into an exploration of the impact of contemporary terrorist atrocities on a young boy from the Muslim community – today’s ‘suspect community’.

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#SaveOurFarm meeting

Many of you will be aware that Balsall Heath City Farm, managed by St Pauls Trust, is due to close in March unless funding can be found. Please read about the upcoming meeting to find out how you can get involved in attempts to ensure that the farm can be saved.

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Ageing Together Week

Ageing Together Week takes place across Birmingham from Monday, January 21 to Sunday, January 27 to raise awareness of isolation and spread the message that people do not need to be alone.

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Reception Spaces available

If you know of a family member or friend with a child born between 1 September 2014 and 31 August 2015 they can start Reception at Percy Shurmer or Montgomery Primary Academy in September 2019.

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