Newsletter July 2012
The CIGB newsletter for July is now available to download. You can find earlier editions on our ‘Newsletters’ page.
Creating opportunities for young people
Following our AGm, Stephen Willey’s presentation on ‘Creating opportunities for yung people’ is available to view:
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:
AGM 2012
This year’s AGM will take place on Wednesday 16th May at a new venue: Diamond House at Birmingham Airport. Refreshments will be served from 5.45pm with the business meeting following at 6.15. At 7.00 guest speaker Stephen Willey, Methodist District Mission in the Economy Officer, will deliver a stimulating keynote speech which will be followed by an open discussion on our theme “Creating Opportunities for Youth”. If you would like to attend please telephone the CIGB office on 0121 426 0425 or email cigbadmin@birmingham.anglican.org
Our Annual Report for 2011 – 2012 is now available to download from the ‘Reports’ page. Reports for previous years can also be found there.
CIGB Annual Report 2011 – 2012
Ground-breaking course puts ethics at the heart of business
Midlands Business News recently published an article about an exciting new degree course at Newman University College Birmingham
‘A Birmingham university college is blazing a trail for sustainable business practices with the creation of the UK’s first undergraduate business degree to place ethics and sustainability at the heart of its curriculum.
Newman University College’s BA (Hons) Business, Sustainability, Ethics (available from October 2012) will focus on helping students develop the critical skills and global understanding necessary to adopt a broader, ethics-centred approach to commerce, equipping them with the skills required to establish and manage profitable and sustainable businesses in fast-changing global markets …’
To read more, please follow the link.
Upcoming Events
Faiths at work
March 15th 2011 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Cathedral Heights, Colmore Row West, B2 5NY
An opportunity to meet working people from many faiths. To share experiences, celebrate the values we bring, and discuss the issues we face in the workplace.
Checkout the Church at the Checkout
St Alphege Church, Wednesday 30th March, 2.00pm – 3.30pm
A chance to meet and chat to Solihull’s Town Centre chaplains over coffee and cake
The Church at the Checkout Flyer 30th March, 2011
The Banks and Society: Rebuilding Trust
Panel discussion and launch of ECCR’s new report on the banking sector.
Tuesday 1 March 2011, 5.00 – 7.30 p.m.
Banking Hall, Wragge & Co 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 2AS
Faith at Work
The ‘Faiths at Work’ programme brought together working people from different faith communities to share the experience of being a person of faith in a workplace and to explore the value that faith brings to work. The three groups met together for a meal in national Interfaith Week to think about the next steps for the programme.
Celebrate Workplace Chaplaincy
The Churches’ Industrial Group Birmingham warmly invite you to a service of rededication and commissioning of our Chaplains on
21st November 2010 at 3.00 pm
Venue: New Life Baptist Church
High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7JZ
Our guest preacher will be
Major Samuel Edgar
Divisional Commander West Midlands Division
(also President of CIGB)
Faiths at Work (2010)- an asset, not an issue
The ‘Faiths at work’ programme aims to bring together people of various faiths to develop mutual understanding of what each brings to the workplace, including ethical values. If we understand and appreciate colleagues and clients better, then we can be more confident to ‘do business’ together.
Employers and colleagues may be nervous of faith at work, yet faith can make a positive contribution to the work place. Faith helps form values and attitudes at work, as in the rest of life. There is much to be gained from exploring the differences between faiths as well as the areas of common ground.
Please contact:
Barbara Hayes – cigb@birmingham.anglican.org 0121 426 0426 or
Ruth Tetlow – ruthtetlow@btinternet.com 0121 449 4892
Faith at work Paricipant info Solihull
Faith at work Participant info Handsworth
‘Faiths at Work’ is a project of the Churches‘ Industrial Group Birmingham, in conjunction with the Faith Encounter Programme, funded by a Faiths in Action grant from the Department for Communities and Local Government.