Funding Zooms are free to Member groups – and lead to results. Sign up for September’s online briefings for members and supporters: 11 Sept 10-11am Fit for All for existing members of the HAF-funded consortium looking at final claims and getting registers complete for the Summer. 12 Sept 4-5pm Young Adults Employment and Enterprise Proposal…Read moreRead more
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Funding Zooms September 2023
Get-Ahead Space
Welcome to Children’s Quarter’s Annual Members’ Meeting on July 7 AM and Lunch at All Saints Centre, Kings Heath, Birmingham. The event is coupled with workshops; a community choir; and a magic show: the Get-Ahead Space aims to give participants shared space for creative thinking. At Get-Ahead on Friday 7 July, CQ members and guests…Read moreRead more
Children’s Quarter AGM 2023 Notice
Friday 7 July 2023 9.15am-lunchtime at All Saints Centre, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7RA CQ is a co-operative: it depends on members’ involvement and holds Members’ Meetings throughout the year. The Annual Meeting gives member groups the chance to: hold the elected Board to account and to vote in Directors to represent them for the…Read moreRead more
Children Don’t Grow in Boxes… They Thrive in Communities!
Childrens’ Quarter Members and guests meet at SENTRE Childcare, Erdington, Birmingham B23 7EY on Thursday 23 March. Members will be sharing news and information about new, inclusive services that work on the basis of what children and young people can do – rather than what they can’t. Hosts SENTRE will be talking about their approach. …Read moreRead more
Members’ Meeting – Neighbourhood Network Schemes
Children’s Quarter Members and guests at the Chinese Community Centre in Birmingham Disabled young people can reach the age of 19 to face not only issues around employment, training, welfare, housing, relationships, health, care and adult life but also a lack of any services funded to support them. CQ Members and other groups working with…Read moreRead more
CQ Members’ Meeting: Focus on Inclusive Youth Services
Children’s Quarter Members meet on 12 September at the Factory Youth Centre, Longbridge. You’re welcome and so are your guests – so please do join us? We’ll be hearing from member groups; creating space for catch-ups; and, this time, focusing on inclusive youth services. CQ Member groups Seven Up and ATHAC have both been highlighting…Read moreRead more
Children’s Quarter AGM – 19 May 11am
Welcome to our AGM! Children’s Quarter is a cooperative with: Members that are groups or organisations – they get a vote in decisions Individual supporters – they don’t get a vote but can join in everything else we do a set of Rules – which describe our organisation as a non-profit company based on cooperative…Read moreRead more
Green Light for Inclusive Easter Holiday Clubs
Inclusive play and youth services for disabled and vulnerable children will be running in Birmingham during the Easter school holidays. The Fit for All programme run by Children’s Quarter members successfully bid for just over £50,000 to run holiday activity and healthy food sessions across the city during the two week school break. The sessions…Read moreRead more
People Power – sharing skills for inclusion
Children’s Quarter is a cooperative alliance that brings people together… as staff, volunteers, parents and carers, trustees, funders, researchers and policy-makers, children and young people. We all have skills, ideas, experience and passion that translate – through the groups and organisations that make up the CQ Co-op and the services we run – into social…Read moreRead more
Bridge to Better Local Offer
CQ Members and Supporters follow up on their Campaign for a Better Local Offer on December 3 with representatives of local councils and John Coughlan, the newly appointed Government Commissioner for SEND Services in Birmingham invited. Ofsted’s SEND Local Area Inspection Reports found: in Birmingham, that the City Council was: still without a strategy; still not…Read moreRead more