Candidates in Ladywood Ward for 3rd May elections

Here are the candidates for Ladywood ward: Hazel Clawley, Kath Hartley (our current councillor), Parveen Hassan, Matthew Roach, and Cabdulqaadir Ruumi. Full details below.

Will you be voting on May 3rd? Only if you are registered by 18th April!

Are you registered?

If not, there is only a week to go to register to vote where you live. Take a look on the government About My Vote site to find out how.

Please note that if you are a student living away from your normal home, you can register twice – many students don’t know that they might be eligible to register to vote at both their home and university addresses, so they can vote wherever they are at the time of the election.

If you are not sure if you are registered to vote, call or visit the Elections Office.

Our local electoral register office is:

Birmingham City Council
Electoral Registration Officer
2nd Floor
150 Great Charles Street
Birmingham
B3 3HS
0121 303 2731
Email Birmingham City Council

New Ladywood Police Newsletter and Photographs

The April Ladywood Policing newsletter is already available….

http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/lpures/bw/newsletters/LadywoodApril2012.pdf

If you like or need Police photographs its also worth looking at West Midlands Police’s Flickr Photographs…

This shows the Force Helocopter (Air Ops) and crew – you may be familiar with it over the City Centre! From West Midlands Police Flickr Photostream under creative commons licence – click on photo for more details.

As of today West Midlands Police are on day 87 of posting one police photo a day for their ‘Photo of the Day 2012′ project - some of them are great! What’s more they are making them available under a creative commons licence, which means you can

• to copy, distribute, and display them
• to make derivative works
• to make commercial use of the work

As long as you:

Attribution — You must give the original author credit.

Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a identical licence to the ones with the photographs.

I think its a great project! Take a look!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/westmidlandspolice

Karen Caine

Next Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery 3rd April 17:30-19:00

Volunteers are offering free social media help to voluntary organisations, community groups, charities, clubs and societies in a relaxed, informal setting.

No boring speeches, no jargon.

Tools like blogs, podcasts, video and social networks can give a real boost to campaigning organisations, often for no or little cost. So these experts (and I) are offering you approachable one-to-one help and support because we believe it can help. You might just want to see what is possible and go away and think about it. You might be itching to set up a blog and start using it. Perhaps you think video might help you tell your story but don’t know where to start? All is possible.

There’ll be no lectures, just people with knowledge, ideas and a passion to help you make best use of the internet for your group or organisation.

Let us know if you can come here: http://socialmediasurgery.com/surgeries/central-birmingham

Karen Caine

St Patricks Day Festival and Parade in Digbeth Sunday 11th March

Parade starts at Noon. Find out more at

http://stpatricksbirmingham.com/the-parade/

Sustainability Spring Fair – 10th March

As part of Climate Week 2012, you could go along to the Sustainability Spring Fair, which is taking place on Saturday 10 March in Victoria Square (outside the Council House) from 10.00 am to 5.00pm, for a family day of fun and to learn about sustainability issues.

Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery 6th March 5:30-7pm

Social Media Surgeries are events where non-profit organisations can get free advice on using social media like blogs, twitter, facebook, etc. You can read more about them here.

If you are involved in a non-profit organisation and would like to get help using social media, please come along to the next Central Birmingham surgery on
Tuesday 6 March 2012 5:30pm – 7:00pm.  If you don’t need help yourself, maybe you could tell someone you know about it?

Karen Caine

Bug counts and worm surveys – free diversity event midday 6th March.

Free talk at Birmingham University’s Winterbourne Gardens midday tomorrow Tuesday 06 March 2012.

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2012/03/02Mar-Nature-comes-to-life-at-Winterbourne-House-and-Garden.aspx

Continuing the historic house’s series of free events about biodiversity, the talk will focus on resources that the OPAL project can provide to those interested in wildlife and their local green spaces. OPAL is a national initiative designed to involve and inspire a new generation of nature-lovers, it aims to encourage people from all walks of life to see themselves as nature detectives. The talk will explain practical tips for helping the environment and monitoring nature in your local area.