Making Birmingham an inclusive city
Making Birmingham an inclusive city
Making Birmingham an inclusive city
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These ‘Enterprise Days’ consist of two broad components: (i) a briefing session<br />
delivered to the schoolchildren by a pair of <strong>Birmingham</strong> Future volunteers covering<br />
some of the fundamentals of running a business such as marketing, fin<strong>an</strong>ce, HR <strong>an</strong>d<br />
operations; <strong>an</strong>d (ii) a business pl<strong>an</strong> competition where schoolchildren are split into<br />
groups <strong>an</strong>d tasked with drafting a business pl<strong>an</strong> which is to be ‘pitched’ to <strong>an</strong> outside<br />
p<strong>an</strong>el of ‘Dragons’, also recruited as volunteers by <strong>Birmingham</strong> Future.<br />
<strong>Birmingham</strong> Leadership Foundation<br />
<strong>Birmingham</strong> Leadership Foundation is <strong>an</strong> independent charity created by a team of<br />
local residents <strong>an</strong>d designed especially for budding young leaders aged between 18<br />
<strong>an</strong>d 30. Their main focus is to provide development opportunities for emerging<br />
young leaders who have the potential, ambition <strong>an</strong>d spark, but not necessarily the<br />
ch<strong>an</strong>ces, to lead the way for <strong>Birmingham</strong>'s future.<br />
<strong>Birmingham</strong> Lesbi<strong>an</strong>, Gay, Bisexual, Tr<strong>an</strong>sgender(LGBT) Centre<br />
<strong>Birmingham</strong> now hosts the first LGBT<br />
centre for Engl<strong>an</strong>d <strong>an</strong>d Wales which<br />
provides a ‘one-stop shop’ to the<br />
LGBT community, working closely<br />
with other service providers to target<br />
issues such as high rates of smoking<br />
<strong>an</strong>d drinking, self-harm, depression<br />
<strong>an</strong>d attempted suicide.<br />
Bita Pathways<br />
Bita Pathways provides services for adults experiencing mental health, offering work,<br />
training <strong>an</strong>d support which promotes personal development <strong>an</strong>d opportunities for<br />
progression towards employment.<br />
Castle Vale Community Housing Association (CVCHA)<br />
Castle Vale Community Housing Association (CVCHA) <strong>an</strong>d is one of the few housing<br />
associations to be resident-led. It has a resident majority on the Board, <strong>an</strong>d a<br />
resident Chair. M<strong>an</strong>y of the staff are also estate residents.<br />
As well as housing <strong>an</strong>d housing-related services, CVCHA provides a wide r<strong>an</strong>ge of<br />
community regeneration activities to support the sustainability of the estate, including<br />
Estate Environmental Services, community development, delivery of youth activities<br />
including setting up a Youth Council, <strong>an</strong> award-winning Community Safety service<br />
<strong>an</strong>d initiatives to tackle fin<strong>an</strong>cial exclusion.<br />
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