Photos from the event now on Flickr.
Today’s Evening Post has a report on An Audience with John Bercow from yesterday. Click on the image to see more or go to the This is Nottingham website here to read the article on a webpage.
Thanks to all who came to the event today, it was a fantastic success. Mr Speaker was brilliant, we very much enjoyed his short talk about Government and his patience in answering questions, at times with some good anecdotes. For more information about what happened at the event, please head over to the blog site where there are summaries that were written during the event.
anaudiencewithjohnbercow.wordpress.com
On Wednesday 6th April, John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, will be visiting Nottingham.
Bright Ideas, supported by ACAF, Nottingham Equal, 97.5 Kemet FM and Toby Neal photography are hosting an Audience with Mr Speaker. He will be giving a presentation about engaging with Parliament and will then be answering questions. It will be broadcast on 97.5 Kemet FM, and there will be a live blog on anaudiencewithjohnbercow.wordpress.com throughout the day.
We have a few places left for the event, so if you would like to come please leave your details on our contact page, including a contact e-mail address and telephone number (scroll to the bottom and fill in the form). We will issue the remaining places on a first-come first-served basis and will get back to you by 12:00 midday on Tuesday 5th April.
Listen on Kemet – 975kemetfm.co.uk/
Follow Bright Ideas on Twitter for updates on the day (we will choose a hashtag soon!)
Emergency Appointment is an event that will look at BME health needs, GP Consortia and public sector commissioning. It will be chaired by Dr Chris Packham, GP and Director of Public Health, and hosted in Nottingham by Andrew Campbell, BME representative for the Local Strategic Partnership. There will be GP’s and guest speakers from the Strategic Health Authority including Maqsood Ahmad OBE, Director of Inclusion and Rosemary Stuckey, Assistant Director of Commissioning Development.
2pm – 5pm Thursday 14th April 2011,
The Indian Community Centre, Mansfield Road.
For more information, download the PDF invitation below.
Emergency Appointment (PDF, 643kb)
From Nottingham Evening Post, Feb 25, 2011
A CHARITY that helps people set up voluntary projects has been praised in an independent report.
Base Camp specialises in helping people from Nottingham’s South Asian community and provides support in several languages, including Urdu and Punjabi. It was evaluated by Bright Ideas, a Nottingham organisation that seeks to improve quality and access to services. The report says that culture plays a big part in how services such as health education and support for victims of domestic violence are delivered in South Asian communities.
It concludes that the tailored support given to volunteers by Base Camp is important and praises its hands-on approach, which includes working with groups on a one-to-one basis, often outside of working hours to fit in with volunteers’ other commitments. Base Camp – part of Radford-based charity the Partnership Council – has helped to set up more than 46 community groups since it was established in 2007.
Bright Ideas are supporting an event for staff and volunteers working for libraries across the East Midlands that is being held by The University of Lincoln, WEA and East Midlands Take Part Champions. It will be at Nottingham Playhouse on Tuesday 22nd March between 10:00 and 3:00.
The event will involve interesting and engaging discussions about:
• How paid staff and volunteers view the current situation
• The value and contribution of volunteers currently working for library services
• The use people make of libraries and what they value about their services
• The challenges facing libraries
• How volunteers can develop the knowledge, confidence and skills that
they will need to overcome barriers and continue their work
• The support needs of volunteers in libraries
There will also be time to meet and talk to other volunteers and learn about the Take Part approach as well as lunch and other refreshments.
For more information, including details of how to book, download the flier below.
One of our fantastic Champions of Change was selected to give away copies of one of her favourite books during World Book Night. Verity chose ‘The Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel as her book and to have an event in Nottingham Central Library to give away copies of the book to other Champions. This is a Flickr slideshow of some of the pictures from the evening (more to come!)
Today sees the launch of Good Practice Toolkit on Equality and Diversity for learning providers in Adult and Community Education. This has been produced by the WEA for LSIS in partnership with a number of organisations including bright Ideas. The launch is part of a seminar at the ICCA in Nottingham looking at best practice and how to achieve Ofsted Grade 1 in Equality and Diversity.
There is a blog that is being updated during the day at: