Annual Meeting

This year’s Annual meeting will take place on Monday May 13th in the Banking Hall at Wragge & Co., 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2AS.

As usual, refreshments will be served from 5.30pm and the business meeting will start at 6.15 and last no more than 30 minutes.  After a short comfort break, our two guest speakers Tim Watts, CEO of Pertemps and Rob Johnston, TUC Regional Secretary will speak on the theme “Part-time and Temporary working:  Dynamic and Precarious?”. A public discussion will follow and the meeting will end at 8.00pm.

If you would like to attend, please email: val.dalton@cigb.org.uk or telephone 0121 426 0425.

Address by Jane Jarvis, Director of HR at NEC

LINK December 2012

Revd Peter Sellick has been appointed as Development Director for CIGB. Peter been working in areas of Industrial Mission for 10 years, based in West Bromwich in the Black Country. He has also been a parish priest in the Church of England for 18 years. Originally from the fringes of London, he has lived and worked in Leeds and Edinburgh, as well as Germany and Zimbabwe. Peter commented, “It is good news that the Churches in Birmingham are supporting this role in times of economic restraint. The Church of England reported to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards: ‘ if the church is not engaged with businesses, we must partly blame ourselves when the country’s economic values lead to disappointment’. Workplaces in Birmingham and Solihull are full of people with humanity, vision and faith: CIGB is well placed to work with them.”

Our service of Commissioning and re-dedication will be held on Sunday 25th November this year at the church of the Sacred Heart and St Teresa, Coleshill.  Have a look at the ‘Events’ page for more information.

The CIGB newsletter for July is now available to download.  You can find earlier editions on our ‘Newsletters’ page.

LINK the CIGB newsletter July 2012

Following our AGm, Stephen Willey’s presentation on ‘Creating opportunities for yung people’ is available to view:

CIGB youth unemployment for web pages

CIGB will be running an ‘Introduction to Workplace Chaplaincy’ course on five consecutive Thursday afternoons starting in September.  For more information please download the poster:

Poster september 2012