Lovely morning spent with anchor organisations at facilitation group led by DRC.

Looking forward to in collaborating further via Our Community Foundation to help develop a VCFSE Locality Partnership supporting the Fairer Futures Fund (FFF) delivery within East Birmingham.

From my family to yours, #EidMubarak

#Eid2024
#EidAlFitr

Congratulations 🎊 to my son Amaan for Winning the Aston Villa Foundation 'Community Champion Of The Year 2024'
Nothing more special to be nominated by young people you support, making a positive difference to their lives and on top of that celebrating at our beloved Aston Villa

🗣️ HAVE YOUR SAY

Our libraries consultation has launched today and is running until Wednesday 17th July.

Find out more 👉 orlo.uk/WfeLT

Please stop with all this. You don’t get to keep giving weapons to Netanyahu, in defiance of American law, to kill innocents with, including innocent Americans, and then pretend you’re ‘pissed’ at Netanyahu. Come on. We weren’t born yesterday.

Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos says Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

The 86-year-old spoke during a Palestine solidarity rally in London, marking Land Day and demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza ⤵️

🌟 Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce we have been successful with our medium grant comprising of 75k from the United By 2022 #InclusiveCommunitiesFund
a £12M initiative inspired by the Commonwealth Games.

Unlocking 🔑 Potential Since 2006.

Watch this space…👀

Please sign and share, much needed resource for our community.

Save Our Library in Erdington! chng.it/S9yk7RZP via Change.org UK

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Another Lovely Iftar with the City Ops Directorate, some amazing work being delivered in keeping communities safe, in tough circumstances. Great insight and discussion into future needs and strategic approach going forward.
Thank you to brother Hanif for the invite. #OneCommunity

Morning spent with fellow anchor orgs working together as part of the levelling up agenda. Ideas 💡 into action - community assets, employment opps, bridging the gap & sustainability. Finished off the day at a lovely Iftar and UDF, thank you to brother Kabeer for the invitation.

“Andy Street and Michael Gove have had a kicking this week”

Labour’s candidate for West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker for West Mids Mayor 🌹 welcomes a court ruling to stop the Mayor taking over the powers of the WestMidsPCC #PoliticsMidlands

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Celebrating 18 years of COPE, a privilege to be invited to their Grand Iftar. An amazing volunteer led charity, phenomenal projects ranging from building schools, water pumps, wheelchair access, rickshaw/ foodsocial enterprises working to regenerate communities.
#Ramadan

An early morning start, meeting with Ahsan and his amazing team at Department for Work and Pensions JCP In Birmingham
Job Centre Plus Jobs A great discussion on how both the DWP and Our Community Foundation can collaborate to tackle youth unemployment in East Birmingham. Looking to put some strategic ideas into action.

Enjoyed a lovely Grand Iftar at Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East Star Academies
We at Our Community Foundation have developed a great partnership over the last 2 years developing future leaders.
Looking forward to further collaborations helping more young people to unlock their potential.
#OneCommunity #Ramadan2024

Lovely afternoon spent at the BBC Studios in Brum with some amazing change makers. Great to input into discussions ahead of BBC Birmingham’s move to The Tea Factory in 2027.

#socialenterprise #changemakers #podcasting #tv #radio #youthopportunities #culture #OneCommunity

Lovely iftar at the M Saif
bringing together some of the best of brum. Thank you to my friends Rawaad & Ahmed for the invitation.
Great to hear about their 2030 vision. Looking forward to our collaboration, working on the Levelling Up agenda together with Our Community Foundation

Lovely day spent discussing social impact & value with anchor organisations joined by some inspirational social innovators from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
To confirm I didn't wear my Aston Villa shirt on purpose, luckily our visitors were from Rotterdam!
#LevellingUp Our Community Foundation

Aston Villa and Aston Villa Foundation were pleased to open the doors of Villa Park to our local community for the club's second Open Iftar, the first Iftar of Ramadan hosted by Ramadan Tent Project. ☪️

We were pleased to welcome 450 members of the community to the Holte End, to hear Shazia…

Lovely to join my Muslim friends and the wider community for the Open Iftar at Villa Park. Privilege to join so many breaking their fast together this evening 🌙

Aston Villa Open Iftar Islamic Relief UK Ramadan Tent Project Aston Villa Foundation Vita Coco