Nick Booth, founder of the Birmingham social media firm Podnosh, explains how the social media surgery movement in Birmingham typifies the city’s reputation for online activism.
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David Cameron has recognised the work of Birmingham volunteers who run social media surgeries to help community groups, by handing them the Prime Minister’s Big Society Award.Read
Claims the “Big Society” will come to the rescue of cash-strapped public services have been questioned after a project which helps keep 35,000 vulnerable people off Birmingham’s streets had its budget cut by £16.6 million.Read
Leading Birmingham Tory Alan Rudge has issued a clarion call in support of the Big Society, demanding that communities be set free from government diktats and helped to take more responsibility for their own lives.Read
One of the architects of the Conservatives’ Big Society project has praised the communities of Birmingham for proving that the concept of community engagement works.Read
Birmingham residents who complained that their local police station was set to close to save cash have been told: “If you want to keep it, run it yourselves.”
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Voluntary service, which is at the heart of the Government’s Big Society initiative, could give thousands of unemployed middle aged people a new purpose in life, the deputy leader of Birmingham City Council has suggested.Read
Doubts about the ability of voluntary organisations to bale out cash-strapped local authorities by delivering public services were further reinforced after Birmingham City Council unveiled a 145-page application form which groups will have to wade through in future if they want to apply for cash grants.Read
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