Stirchley Fruit and Nut Village
on Wednesday 8th September at 10.30am
Meet on Hazelwell Road, Stirchley B30 2PE
by the bridge over the River Rea
If you have the app What3words - the location is "ruler.fruit.scam"
We will explore the Kingdom Forest Garden before heading into Hazelwell Nut Grove, then a short walk to Stirchley Park and ending at Stirchley Baths Forest Garden, for drinks and cake!
The next BOSF Tea Time will then be on Wednesday 22nd September at 4pm
This will be online for everyone
The Operations Manager will lead the next stage in the development of the charity, including the development and growth of the board of Trustees and taking control of the day-to-day management of BOSF.
This is a new post for the organisation, and the trustees are keen to be as flexible as possible to ensure that the right candidate is appointed.
The Trustees of Birmingham Open Spaces Forum are particularly interested in widening the diversity (including racial diversity) of the organisation and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.
Experience of working with green spaces is not a pre-requisite for this role. Skills and experience from other parts of the charitable, voluntary and other sectors will be relevant and potentially important to the role.
Salary - £33,750 FTE
Hours - 22.5 hours per week
Deadline for applications: Midday Monday 27th September Face-to-face interviews: Week beginning Monday 4th October
RSPB England has four exciting opportunities to join an innovative new project in Birmingham, working within the England Engagement team.
In order to effect the change that nature’s recovery needs, more, and more diverse people need to be enabled to act for nature. The Naturally Connected Communities Birmingham project will engage families, young people, and primary-age children from diverse social backgrounds, connecting them more meaningfully to nature on their doorstep, and encouraging action that matters to them. The project will demonstrate the difference that communities can make for nature and how nature can benefit communities by having a positive impact on health and wellbeing.
Birmingham Community Project Manager
Salary - £27,574 - £30,590 per annum
Duration - 18 months
The Birmingham Community Project Manager will lead the development, delivery and evaluation of an 18-month project which will test and trial ways to engage with new audiences, through three defined project workstreams, each working with a local or national partner. This is a pilot project, funded by the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, and will provide learning and insight to inform the potential for future roll-out of activities across the UK.
Closing Date - Monday 31st August Click here to find out more!
Birmingham Community and Families Officer
Salary - £22,968 - £25,500 per annum
Duration - 12 months The role is part of a team led by the Birmingham Community Project Manager and will work alongside our project partner, Birmingham Open Spaces Forum, as well as community and family specialists from within the RSPB.
Initially working with a local consultant, you will play a key role in the consultation and co-design phases of the project, gaining insight from families and community groups and exploring solutions to the barriers that may prevent families from diverse social backgrounds engaging with nature. You will lead the creation of a toolkit incorporating a training package and family activity resources that groups need to effectively engage families from diverse communities with nature in local greenspaces.
Closing Date - Sunday 5th SeptemberClick here to find out more!
Birmingham Teacher Training Officer – Outdoor Education Specialist
Salary - £22,968 - £25,500 per annum
Duration - 18 months
This role is about the development and delivery of a new teacher CPD offer to cohorts of teachers in a way that is effective, impactful, and inspiring. This pilot project in Birmingham will test and trial ways to effectively engage and empower teachers to change their pedagogy so that their curriculum-based lessons develop an emotional connection and feelings of compassion for nature in children.
You will work with the primary education specialist to deliver online and face to face training sessions and provide ongoing support, modelling effective outdoor learning practice and exploring new ways for teachers to take their curriculum-based learning outdoors so that they improve children’s connection to nature. Closing Date - Sunday 5th SeptemberClick here to find out more!
Birmingham Teacher Training Officer – Primary Education Specialist
Salary - £22,968 - £25,500 per annum
Duration - 18 months
This role is about the development and delivery of a new teacher CPD offer to cohorts of teachers in a way that is effective, impactful, and inspiring. This pilot project in Birmingham will test and trial ways to effectively engage and empower teachers to change their pedagogy so that their curriculum-based lessons develop an emotional connection and feelings of compassion for nature in children.
You will work with the outdoor education specialist to deliver online and face to face training sessions and provide ongoing support to explore new ways for teachers to take their curriculum-based learning outdoors so that they improve children’s connection to nature. Closing Date - Sunday 5th SeptemberClick here to find out more!
Lunch and Learn Story Telling with Future Parks Accelerator
Lunch and Learn – Story Telling Thursday, 26th August 2021 12:00 - 13:00 Via Teams
The Public Health Lunch & Learn series is a programme of talks to share insight, evidence and practice on a range of topics over the year. This month the focus is Story Telling led by Debbie Needle – FPA Community Facilitator. This session will focus on:
The history of storytelling and why it works
The value of storytelling in community engagement
Sharing Earth Stories
Feel free to bring your lunch, and we will feed your brain while you feed your stomach!
The Check a Sweet Chestnut project by the RHS aims to empower citizens interested in protecting UK trees to identify and record local sweet chestnut trees, inspect the trees’ leaves for signs of galls, made by the invasive pest Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp, and report records of Oriental chestnut gall wasp to the plant health authorities. The project collaborates closely with an existing TreeZilla app and the government’s TreeAlert platform.
They will also consider whether citizen science is an effective way of detecting the tree pests and diseases (in order to assist with national monitoring of tree health) and learn lessons for the future, from the point of view of the citizen scientist and from the tree health perspective.
Volunteers Needed at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
Do you have some spare time and would you like to join our team?
We’re looking for volunteers who are:
Warm, friendly and welcoming
Proactive
Great team players
Good communicators
Passionate about helping others
If this sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you. We have a range of volunteer roles to suit your skills and you can volunteer as much or as little as you’d like.
To find out more simply contact our volunteer coordinator on 0121 685 4226 or roh-tr.volunteers@nhs.net
Click here to visit the website and find out more.
Community Action for Great Big Green Week
A national celebration of community action: 18-26th September 2021
The Great Big Green Week will be the largest event for climate and nature ever seen in the UK. Thousands of events will celebrate how communities are taking action to tackle climate change and protect green spaces, and encourage others to get involved too. If you’re in Scotland, you can get involved via the Climate Fringe Week, hosted by our sister organisation Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. Together we will call on politicians to raise their ambition and champion action on climate change.
All groups urged to organise local activities and take part in local 'weeks of action' in their area
Bringing Communities Back Together Fund
The Asda Foundation has launched a new grant to reunite communities, celebrate togetherness, and support groups as Coronavirus restrictions begin to ease across the UK during July, August and September.
Birmingham and Black Country Communities Fund
The Birmingham & Black Country Fund and the Coventry, Solihull & Warwickshire Fund has grants of up to £2k for groups in the West Midlands.
The National Lottery Community Fund’s Reaching Communities
The National Lottery Community Fund’s Reaching Communities England programme awards funding to organisations that work with their community to help them thrive. With the pandemic still ongoing, the NLCF wish to focus their giving on organisations supporting communities most adversely impacted.
