UpLifting featured in the Pavement magazine

In May UpLifting featured in the homeless magazine The Pavement. To have a read click here (page 7). Big thanks to the Pavement West Midlands editor Ellie Jones for her continued support.

Local MPs Offer Support

On Friday the 13th of May Lee and Adam as well as other UpRisers visited the offices of Birmingham Erdington MP Jack Dromey and Birmingham Perry Barr MP Khalid Mahmood. Both offered us support to our project and both expressed interest in becoming future patrons. Local Councillor Waseem Zaffer also backed our campaign and will assist us in getting the project into a local school in his ward.

Cabinet Member Supports our Project

In February UpLiftings Lee along with other UpRisers met with the Secretary of State for International Development and Sutton Coldfield MP Andrew Mitchell, to talk to him about our social action project and to get his thoughts and opinions.

Andrew Mitchell MP said,

“Social action brings societies together, be it here in Birmingham or in Rwanda. It was great to meet these enthusiastic young people who are working hard on their own social action projects.”

See here for details of the visit

UpLifting reach Semi Finals of Big Leap 2011

UpLifting are pleased to announce that we are semi finalists for the Striding Out 2011 Big Leap Competition and have as a result been awarded with free business coaching and support.

Tomorrow we are off to the award ceremony in Central Birmingham, see here for further details.

UpRising Video

UpLiftings Lee and other UpRisers give their thoughts on the UpRising programme.

Visit to Zambesi

On Tuesday the 12th April Lee visited Zambesi on the Stratford Road in Sparkhill, Birmingham for a partnership lunch with Midland Heart. An invite kindly provided from Midland Hearts Regeneration Project Officer Ashok Patel. The event kicked off with introductions and a detailed history of the Zambesi project, talking about how Midland Heart took on the project, moved it to a new venue and how it has thrived ever since. Numerous positive examples were given on the work they have done with service users and how they have battled to overcome the wrong stereotypes that homelessness people can sometimes face, including an attempt by local residents to close Zambesi down. Next came a performance by two young female volunteers who sand ‘The Final Song’, which was both inspiring and thought provoking. After this invited guests and service users tucked into some delicious lunch and networking as well viewing the Art Exhibition.

It was a great insightful afternoon and we would like to thank Midland Heart for the invitation and their continued support.

Lee

Presentation at Birmingham City FC

On Wednesday 23rd of March UpLifting, along with the eight other Social Action Projects in Birmingham each presented at the UpRising Mid Term Event held in the ‘Legends Suite’ at Birmingham City FC. The event was an amazing success, and a great chance for us to promote our Social Action Project.

Below is some of the feedback from those that attended via Twitter.

punchrecords Punch Records
@brumuplifting—good project idea. good luck.

drivingequality WOMENSNETWORKINGHUB
@brumuplifting I’m in!

Aspire4uCIC Aspire4u cic
@BrumUpLifting great presentation