Newsletter July 2012

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

Creating opportunities for young people

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

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

 

The latest edition of “LINK” the CIGB newsletter is available to download from the Newsletters page: www.cigb.org.uk/newsletters

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.

http://www.midlandsbusinessnews.co.uk/2011-11/ground-breaking-course-puts-ethics-at-the-heart-of-business.aspx

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.

Faiths at work 15 March 2011


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

Download The Banks and Society: Rebuilding Trust flyer

More events can be found on our Events page

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)

Celebrate Workplace Chaplaincy 2010 poster

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

Faiths at Work Leaflet

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.