Posts Tagged ‘Lozells’

Noorin Akhtar podcast

Posted on 20th October 2009 by
Noorin Akhtar

Noorin Ahktar

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 promotes and raises awareness in ethnic communities – she now has a rogramme called ‘Community Time’. She has set up a blog, and uses radio and tv channels to make the short programmes in English, Urdu, Punjabi, and a number of different languages.

Noorin thinks some communities are wrongly perceived as ‘hard to reach’ – she challenges this point of view with her truly innovative and brilliant work. Her inspiration is the fact if people of aware of what is going on around them, they will have the knowledge to be able to do things.

Manjit Singh nominated Noorin for the active citizen award, one of the shortlist categories for Birmingham’s Local Hearts Awards.

[podcast]http://podnosh.com/files/2009/10/Grassroots-Noorin-Akhtar.mp3[/podcast]

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Democracy week in Perry Barr schools.

Posted on 14th October 2009 by

The Lozells.info website has written about their local youth forum which is working in schools to talk to pupils about the neighbourhood.  Kate Foley writes:

As part of Local Democracy Week the Perry Barr Youth Forum are visiting a number of schools in Lozells. On Tuesday and Wednesday they are visiting Heathfield, Lozells and Mayfield Schools and on Friday they go to Holte School.

The Youth Forum are presenting during a 15 minute school assembly where they:

  • Tell the young people who they are and what they do
  • Ask them if they know what Local Democracy Week is
  • Ask them questions about the local area and what they would like to see change and improve
  • At the end of the assembly the Youth Forum collect all the opinions from the young people in the schools and these will then be put together as a report which can help your Neighbourhood Management Board to improve services in the local area

    • This project is being filmed and the footage should be available on this site soon.

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