A Week In The Life Of A Chairman – Day 4 Thursday
I listened to an archived radio broadcast today by Sir Michael Parker who organises royal events. He talked about his rules for organising events. A key aspect of my role as Chairman is organising events. It’s something I enjoy doing, but I often feel that my ambitions and visions are rather too grand. It’s little wonder then that Sir Michael’s rather grandiose, devil may care rules should resonant with me. Basically he maintained that:
1. Have a very big idea and then double it
2. If it’s easy to do then it’s not worth doing
3. If you are given more than one option, take the difficult one
4. If you are 100% certain that something will work, then you are not being ambitious enough
5. Never regard “no” as an answer and treat experts with caution
6. Try never to tell people what is supposed to happen and then they won’t know if it hasn’t
7. Always stand as close as possible to the principal guest (for us, that could be an author, an illustrator, a customer, a librarian or a reviewer) so that you will be first with excuses when things go wrong
8. It must be as much fun for everyone as possible
After listening to the broadcast, I glanced quickly at the plan we’ve developed for a Heritage Festival. I’d been wondering whether our ambitions were maybe too lofty, but listening to Sir Michael’s rules, I reckon we’ve got them about right. Having been reassured I spent some time further developing the plans.
I also spent time today advertising our oral history training and recruiting volunteers to help record histories. We’ve been developing our social media plans and this seemed like an opportunity to start putting them into action. Social media seems to offer the ideal opportunity to build relationships and make people aware of what’s important to you, so we’ve started to use it to raise awareness of the opportunities that we have on offer.
Despite promising myself that I would limit my volunteering time today, I found myself working in the graveyard yet again. It was such a glorious day and it seemed a shame to waste an opportunity.
My volunteer hours for today: 7 hours
New Youth Project turns “Junk to Funk”
Young people are taking pre-loved clothes and tossed aside materials to create new, adventurous outfits in Castle Bromwich. In North Solihull where youth unemployment has reached almost three times the national average and over half of young people leave school without recognised qualifications, young people are learning how to take old clothes and household materials and turn them into something new to wear. The project which has been funded by Comic Relief will help young people develop skill in the lost art of sewing and challenge the lack of understanding between generations by involving older residents.
The project starting on May 14th will culminate with a fashion showto be held at the Castle Bromwich Youth Centre. The show plans to feature a line of clothing designed by the project as well as a dance act and drama performance by young people at the Castle Bromwich Youth Centre. Eric Knibb, Secretary of the Castle Bromwich Youth & Community Partnership who will be coordinating the project said “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to help young people gain new skills and confidence in themselves. We hope this project helps show how talented they can be and promotes even greater understanding between the young and old.”
CHARM Comes to Castle Bromwich
The Castle Bromwich Youth & Community Partnership is delighted to announce its CHARM cooking project which will run from February to May at the Castle Bromwich Youth & Community Centre. The CHARM initiative will help people to cook cheap and healthy meals from scratch with weekly cooking sessions allowing participants to produce healthy, cheaper alternatives to fast food and take-aways. An additional feature of the scheme will be the production of a community recipe book and website with video tutorials and a recipe bank.
CHARM sessions will be held on:
Tuesday February 14th 12pm – 3pm
Wednesday February 15th 12pm – 3pm
Thursday February 16th 12pm – 3pm
Then weekly on a Thursday 4.30pm – 6.30pm excluding Easter
Terrie Knibb, Chairman of the Castle Bromwich Youth & Community Partnership said, “We’re really excited about the launch of this project and can’t wait to start setting up the CHARM sessions. It will give us a wonderful opportunity to show that being able to cook a healthy meal from scratch is faster, easier and cheaper than many people think.”
Participation in the project is free, but places are limited and registration is required. If interested, please complete the form below to register or request more information:
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