Community Development Practice Hub

The Community Development Practice Hub is a resource for people and organisations who ‘work with’ people in Birmingham so they can take collective action to make changes to things that are important to them and their communities.

We aim to connect, inspire and upskill community development practitioners across Birmingham.

Come join us on this exciting journey, as we collaborate with the sector to offer a tailored approach with a focus on Birmingham-specific learning, challenges, and achievements.

Sample Job Descriptions and Role Specifications

Recruiting? Use these sample job descriptions to help shape your community development roles. They can help you to create recruitment materials that will help attract candidates with the skills and competencies required to perform in a community development role.

Neighbourhood Networker, Age Concern Birmingham

Street Connector Mentor, Open Door Community Foundation

Green Connector, Open Door Community Foundation

Thanks to Age Concern Birmingham & Open Door Community Foundation

Latest

New Centres for Warmth to open in Sutton Coldfield

Living in Sutton Coldfield and want to reduce your home energy bills? BVSC, Age Concern Birmingham and ecobirmingham will be opening 6 new Centres for Warmth in Sutton Coldfield, at the start of October, with funding from NAVCA and Cadent.
BEAT Winter Workshop (Birmingham Energy Advice This Winter)

The BrumEnergy project partnership warmly welcome you to attend the “Better Energy Advice This Winter (BEAT Winter)” workshop. This is an opportunity to share learning, what works and what we can do differently to give more householders better energy advice this winter. This is an opportunity for organisations who are already or would like to deliver energy advice. Free of charge.
Independent Advocate – level 6 British Sign Language

POhWER, Closing date: 23 September 2024
Volunteer Support Worker

To assist the refuge manager in the day-to-day running of the refuge, developing and delivering a front-line service offering support, advice and guidance to women and their children living in the refuge.

Community Leadership e-learning

The Community Leadership Training Programme was developed in Birmingham as a collaboration between BVSC and Birmingham City Council and designed to develop confident, capable and effective leaders of change and development at the local community level and those representing communities of interest. Initially delivered through face-to-face and online methods of delivery, it's now available as a FREE e-learning programme.
Reflection in Supervision

Supervision ensures that community development practitioners feel valued, supported and more prepared for the challenges of their role. This article discusses reflection within supervision and offers practical tips to incorporate it.
Working with Community Assets

Learning from Ageing Better, a test and learn programme where working with community assets was a key component of its delivery model. This learning can be applied universally.
Robert Netherway - Lunchtime Talk

Our series of lunchtime talks that explores the role of community development practitioners, and how they approach working with communities, kicked off with Rob Netherway on 28th September
Hub launch event

The Community Development Practice Hub launch took place online, 3rd September 2021. With speakers Jo Bagby & Carol Hebden of JJ Consulting, and Cormac Russell, Nurture Development.
What is Community Development

Community Development enables people in communities to take collective action to make changes to things that are important to them.
History of Community Development

Community Development has a long history in the United Kingdom and has evolved and changed over time.
Core Skills for Agents of Change

The principles and values of community development are shared across the United Kingdom and around the world. With community development undertaken by a wide range of people in different roles.
Values of Community Development Practice

The community development process is underpinned by five fundamental values on which all practice are based. Community development practitioners should be able to relate these values to their roles and actions.
About Asset Based Community Development

Asset Based Community Development or ABCD aims to strengthen communities by recognising, identifying, and activating the skills, resources, experience, knowledge, connections, and passions within them.