News and Events
Up one levelBDRC News Items
- West Side Story - Audio described theatre review by Vidar Hjardeng
- Research Volunteers Needed
- Disability Equality Training Programme 2008
- Spring Newsletter 2008
- Free Autism Seminar
- Rise To The Challenge
- BDRC staff support students
- BDRC support City College students
- BDRC Meets City College Student
- Read about the work BDRC is undertaking with Students at City College.
- Investors in People Award
- BDRC Employment Preparation Team
- Zurich Insurance Does 'Ground Force' at BDRC
- Service user supported into a job with NHS.
- Employment preparation team support beneficiary into a job.
- Birmingham Communities and Neighbourhoods Resilience Group
- BDRC Summer Newsletter 2008
- Free Leadership Development Programme
- Heritage Lottery Grant to Record History of BDRC
- Bordesley Green Disability Group
- History project launch event on December 9th
- Spring 2009 Newsletter
- Public Health Conference
- Channel 4 Wedding Documentary
- BDRC Autumn Newsletter 2008
- GMC seeks new members for Reference Gommunity
- Fruitdrops National Drive for Healthier Workforce
- Channel 4 - How to Look Good Naked
- Online petitions set to give citizens a greater say
- Third Sector Assembly, Birmingham
- Autism Consultation
- The news item below is from the Skills For Care e-newsletter May 2009
- Research into high-tech help
- Lifelong Learning Conference
- Skills For Care Publishes End Of Life Regional Consultation Report
- Have you recently started work and need help to pay your rent & council tax?
- Fair Deal for Mental Illness - event in Coventry
- SOVA - Job Opportunity
- Disabled women and domestic violence
- BE A ‘FRIEND’ TO SOMEONE AFFECTED BY AUTISM in Birmingham
- Dignity in Old Age
- Accessible Holiday Accomodation in Dorset - Holton Lee
- FUNDING ALERT: Government Transformation Fund
- Arts All Over The Place 2009
- Working Parts - a Black Country based disability arts network
- International Missing Children's day
- Regional Disability Projects - Job Announcements
- We Can Do - Event For Carers
- Job Opportunity
- Volunteer stewards wanted for Arts event
- WAITS Policy Forum Launch. A launch event for women and women’s groups
- ASDA to sell disability equipment
- DLA extended to visually impaired
- £340m pledged for disabled children
- Group for people with sight loss in East Birmingham
- New website aimed at older people
- West Midlands carers forced to change disabled loved-ones on dirty toilet floors, new Mencap research reveals
- Building Bridges July 1988
- Another edition of the Building Bridges newsletter, this time from July 1988. Our thanks to BDRC volunteer Demelza Llewellin for her work transcribing these newsletters from their original typed format to electronic format. Thanks also to Bob Williams Findlay for the loan of the orginal material. Do you have copies of other printed or photographic material relating to the history of BDRG and BDRC? Get in touch via email at pmillington@disability.co.uk This project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
- Deaf Rave Updates - Glastonbury, Far East Photos, UK Deaf Events coming up soon!!
- Waste Management Survey - Birmingham City Council
- We have received a request from the Fleet and Waste Management service at Birmingham City Council who are carrying out a survey in order to improve services for disabled people living in Birmingham. Below is a copy of the letter from Gwin Pountney of the service. If you would like to support this initiative, please email me and I will send you a copy of the questionnaire via email or post. pmillington@disability.co.uk
- Late notification of a Symposium on a key Disability issue
- FORMING A NEW STANDARDS GROUP IN BIRMINGHAM
- Shared Experiences - new book by Windsor author with Birmingham roots
- Accessible flat available
- UKDPC Disabled Peoples' Organisations survey
- List of Summer holiday activities
- Birmingham Disability Network launched
- Birmingham OwnHealth presentations
- Counselling Service Reaches Out To Carers And Disabled People
- DIGBETH TRUST CHIEF EXECUTIVE MOVING ON
- Full of Life Day - Walsall
- Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Day - Walsall
- THE PLATFORM PROJECT NEEDS DEVELOPMENT WORKERS
- Applications Invited for FAMILY STORYTELLING EVENTS
- Patient Opinion Seminar
- You are invited to our seminar
- Disability Capital - A Conference
- Free Business Support for Voluntary and Community groups
- Capacity and infrastructure advice for small voluntary and community groups in Birmingham
- CHINESE DELEGATION VISITS BIRMINGHAM DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE
- Training around bereavement
- Summer Newsletter
- Konw Your Numbers!
- Birmingham people with high blood pressure urged to join telephone health service during Know Your Numbers! Week
- Making the Equality Bill Work for Us!
- Wheel Clamping Victory at Birmingham County Court of £8,532.48
- Thank you letter from Cultivations
- Free local event is health boffin heaven
- Editor of Birmingham Mail responds to BDRC criticism
- The letter below was published in the Birmingham Mail on Tuesday 13th October 2009 in regards to inappropriate language used in a headline concerning a young man with Asperger's Syndrome. Immediately afterwards we have printed the Editor's reply:
- Growing stronger grassroots in Birmingham
- Playtrain Express
- Commssioning & The Third Sector
- Arts and Crafts Teacher (Sessional - 5 hrs per week)
- EHRC Disability Committee - member vacancies
- Resources for Autism play scheme
- Winter Newsletter
- Eliminating Barriers to Employment - Birmingham Disability Consortium
- More Birmingham patients with long term conditions offered advice and support with just one call
- Health and meditation events at Birmingham Buddhist Centre
- Totally Hooked on Fishing (, from Tuesday, 05 Jan 2010 to Tuesday, 05 Jan 2010)
- Equalities & Diversity in the Third Sector in the West Midlands
- Birmingham Disability Network - successful event
- Bob Williams Findlay returns to Birmingham Disability Resource Centre
- Birmingham Disability Network
- Birmingham people urged to join telephone health service on World Kidney Day