Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
B rum reggae legends UB40 returned to their stomping ground last night for a special one-off gig to raise money for a sound-proofing roof needed to save a popular Digbeth music venue from closure by the city's over-zealous noise abatement officialdom. The Rainbow pub in Digbeth is typical of the venues in which the Birmingham supergroup first cut their teeth thirty years ago, so when word reached them...
Marketing Jobs (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
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Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
ISE, a leading West Midlands Social Enterprise Development Agency is looking for a Finance Manager to join their busy team. The post holder will ensure the provision of accurate and timely financial information and reports to the I’SE Management Team and Budget Holders. They will also prepare budgets, forecasts and variance analysis for the Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors and other...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
ISE, a leading West Midlands Social Enterprise Development Agency is looking for a Social enterprise Business Coach to join their busy team. The post holder will provide outreach business advisory support to groups of individuals interested in establishing social enterprises and to existing social enterprises to promote sustainability The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate ·...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
W ith deep sadness this evening I pay tribute to a friend named John Foley who died last week and whose funeral is tomorrow morning at Holy Family church in Small Heath, Birmingham. I met John some 10 years ago, a disabled person from Birmingham who was very committed to trying to achieve access, inclusion and equality for all disabled people in Birmingham and across the whole country. John was a very...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Clashes in city centre between English Defence League supporters and anti-fascist protesters Officers are trying to identify more people involved in violent scenes at a right-wing protest which prompted dozens of arrests. More than 30 people were arrested in Birmingham city centre yesterday when anti-fascist campaigners fought with supporters of a rally against Islamic fundamentalism by The English...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
By Daily Mail Reporter Officers were trying today to identify more people involved in violent scenes at a right-wing protest which resulted in dozens of arrests. More than 30 people were arrested in Birmingham city centre yesterday when anti-fascist campaigners fought with supporters of a rally against Islamic fundamentalism by The English Defence League (EDL). As shoppers looked on, gangs of men and...
Digital Examples (Free subscription) | 01/08/2009
Help Me Investigate is a crowd-sourced journalism site based in the West Midlands, and featured in this week's MediaGuardian podcast. A member of the site puts forward an idea for an investigation, then other members help out by getting hold of documents, sifting data, and writing the investgation up. It's a great idea, and one that I'd expect to be replicated elsewhere as a more structured form of...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 16/07/2009
WORK OPPORTUNITY: Apprentice Teacher/Actor of The Play House, £110 per week T he Play House is looking to recruit an apprentice teacher/actor, which will be run through West Midlands Creative Alliance’s Community Arts apprentice scheme.The Community Arts Apprenticeship involves on the job training, studying for nationally recognised qualification and earning whilst learning. Applications...
Birmingham Central (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
The Birmingham Post has reported on a feasibility study into developing a museum of contemporary art in Birmingham, Study into new contemporary art museum linking Arcadian with Digbeth , some three years after it publicised the idea in 2006 which was raised by the Ikon Gallery director Jonathan Watkins and Ikon chairman architect Glenn Howells. The idea has received enthusiastic support from Tate director...
Birmingham: It's Not Shit Blog (Free subscription) | 28/05/2009
Apparently "the vibrancy of Digbeth has come to the attention of regeneration quango Advantage West Midlands who've ordered research into the conflict between new residents and existing businesses." The results of the research are being presented tonight (28/5) at 5pm at South Birmingham College — but have you heard of anyone being consulted? Have you [...]
Coi-Freelance (Free subscription) | 17/03/2009
During Birmingham’s Saint Patrick’s Day festival on March 15th the Security Industry Authority, West Midlands Police and Trading Standards officers found all security staff inspected were working legally with SIA licences. 11 doormen were checked at various licensed premises around the Digbeth festival, and all held valid SIA licences. I’m glad to see, for the first time [...]
Created in Birmingham (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Copied over wholesale from the Hello Digital blog (cos I’m not writing this twice): The East Birmingham & North Solihull Regeneration Zone (ebns Ltd), supported by Advantage West Midlands, have been investing in the development of Digbeth and Eastside as a Learning and Leisure Quarter and a centre for the creative industries, particularly the digital media [...]
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