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Warm Homes, Cool Planet
We’re pleased to announce that our new theme for spring 2023 is: Energy prices are rising rapidly and many people are in difficulty paying bills. We are addicted to fossil fuels for our energy, putting the power over our access to heating, lighting and cooking in the hands of a small number of corporations and…
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A Supportive Environment?
The UK government has recently introduced new rules for how we treat refugees. The Nationality and Borders Act represents a major attack on people seeking safety. This is part of the ‘hostile environment’ against refugees and other people arriving in the UK. But people who travel here are simply seeking safety and fairness, as well…
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How can we Invest in Peace?
This International Peace Day (21st September 2021) we’re exploring how we can invest in peace to help us all become more secure. If we see others as competitors or enemies, we naturally seek security in out-competing or defeating them. But this can lead to a cycle of destruction– even if we briefly ‘win’ we’re never…
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Keep taking action to Share our Common Wealth
After 12 days celebrating sport and our city, hosting athletes and teams from across the world, the Commonwealth Games closed last night. Our theme Sharing Common Wealth? continues until the end of August, so feel free to pop into town (now that it’s a bit less busy!) and say hello to us on Bull St.…
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Climate Justice & the Commonwealth
The UK has just experienced its hottest day on record, a stark reminder that climate change is already affecting our lives, and is set to get much worse without urgent action. But extreme weather like this doesn’t affect everyone equally. Whilst all of us struggled with the extreme temperatures on Monday and Tuesday, people on…
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Refugee Week: a time for Healing
It’s Refugee Week, and this year the theme is Healing: “Through creativity and conversations, Refugee Week 2022 will be a celebration of community, mutual care, and the human ability to start again.” Counterpoint Arts, organisers of UK Refugee Week In Birmingham, events to mark this week include: 11:30am Thursday 23rd June: a visit to Victoria…
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New Climate Board Game designed by Young Brummies
Our current theme Live, Love, Learn is all about sustainable education – but how can we make complex issues around the climate accessible and understandable? Young people in Birmingham have been making their own contribution, working with researchers to develop a game that helps players learn about the role of the built environment in the…
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How can schools build peace?
Our current theme Live, Love, Learn is all about peaceful & sustainable education. Questions of peace are at the forefront of our minds right now, but what does ‘peaceful education’ mean in practice? Our sister organisation Peacemakers works in schools to help children and staff develop the skills to understand and resolve conflict. For primary-age…
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Is Sanctuary Under Threat?
The UK government is planning to introduce new rules for how we treat refugees. The plans represent a major attack on people seeking safety, and they may undermine our obligations under international law. Under the current rules, people are accepted as refugees having shown that they have fled war or persecution following rigorous official checks.…
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Take Action for Climate & Economic Justice
It’s been great to support the Relay to COP26 as it passes through Birmingham this week. This November, world leaders are meeting in Glasgow for important climate negotiations called COP26. On Friday 11th June, a group led by Young Christian Climate Network (YCCN) began walking from the G7 summit of wealthy nations hosted in Cornwall,…