Working with Community Groups and Voluntary Organisations
There are extensive networks of voluntary groups and organisations in every community. Each is a potential partner in a Speakers’ Corner event and many are actively seeking to raise their profile or promote their cause and will welcome the platform a Speakers’ Corner project can provide.
So, one of first steps any Speakers’ Corner Committee should consider is to compile a list of local organisations, perhaps with the help of the local authority and/or Council for Voluntary Service (CVS), and email them to let them know about the project and encourage them to participate.
Here’s a fairly standard email which you can adapt and below that is the list of groups which Nottingham Speakers’ Corner contacted. It’s about 130 strong and growing all the time.
| Nottingham’s Speakers’ Corner - Your PlatformYou may recall that earlier this year we launched Nottingham’s Speakers’ Corner, the first in the UK since the original was established in Hyde Park almost 150 years ago.We would like to invite your organisation to make it their platform.The Speakers’ Corner is temporarily located outside Debenhams on Market Square but will shortly be moving to a permanent, specially designed site at the bottom of King Street and Queen Street, close to the Council House.The aim of our project is to provide new platforms for debate in Nottingham and give local people new opportunities to get involved in discussion of the issues which matter to them.
Nottingham Speakers’ Corner Committee, which is itself made up of local people, is currently drawing up plans for a programme of public debates and we would like to invite your organisation to contribute to it. Speakers’ Corner is free for anyone to use at any time and you do not need to notify anyone that you intend to. But we would like to help promote events which take place there and, if you would like us to do so, we hope you will give us advance notice. The subject is entirely up to you. All we would ask is that you spend a little time planning your event to maximise both its impact in getting over your message and its interest to the general public. We would help you publicise it by advertising it on the website we are developing and within some of the local newsletters etc. Whatever, your interest, campaign or cause, Speakers’ Corner is your platform. So please let me know if you would like us to help publicise your event or call me on (0115) 915 8660 if you would like more information. Further information about Nottingham’s Speakers’ Corner is available at http://www.nottinghamspeakerscorner.org.uk/ which also has some important and useful guidance on organising and running events at a Speakers’ Corner. I look forward to hearing from you. Racheal Brooks Coordinator, Nottingham Speakers’ Corner |
African Carribean Education and Training Services (ACETS)
African Carribean Family Support Project
Afro Carribean and Asian Forum
Afro-Carribean Women’s Group
Age Concern Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
Al Mustafa Trust International
Alzheimers Society
Asian Women’s Project
Aspley Community and Training Associates
AWAAZ Asian Mental Health Resource Unit
Bangladesh Centre
Barton Lane Community Association
Base 51
Beechdale Community Association
BEGIN
Bells Lane Community Association
Bestwood Directions
Bestwood Estates Community Association
Bestwood Park Community Association
Bilborough Community Association
Birchover Sports & Community Group
Black Families in Education
Bobbersmill Community Centre
Bridgeway Luncheon Club
British Pakhtoon
Broxtowe Partnership Trust
Bulwell Community Toy Library
Bulwell Vision
City Hospital / Queens Med PALs
Clifton Boys / Girls Club
Clifton Community Association
Community Accounting Plus
Cooperative Community Action
Crabtree Farm Community Association
Creative & Community Launch Pad
Crime Concern
Disabled People’s Advocacy Nottingham
Dunkirk & Old Lenton Community Centre
Dunkirk & Old Lenton Partnership Forum
Edwards Lane Community Association
Elizabeth Fitzroy Support
Emmanuel House Day Centre
Extra Care Charitable Trust
Faith in Action
Family Action Nottingham
Federation of Mosques Nottinghamshire
FIANN - Federated Irish Associations Nottingham and Notts
First Enterprise Business Agency
Forest Fields Neighbourhood Centre
Forest Fields Play Centre
FRAMEWORK
Good Companions Visiting Scheme
Guru Nanak Sat Sang (Sikh Temple)
Highbank Community Association
Homelessness Mediation Service
Homestart
Hostels Liaison Group
Hyson Green Community Centre
Hyson Green Youth Club
Imaani Project
Irish Social Centre
Leen Valley Community Association
Lenton and Radford Neighbourhood Association (LARNA)
Lenton Care Link
Lenton Community Centre
Meadows Muslim Action Group
Mens United Fathers Network
Monty Hind Youth Club
National Autistic Society
National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS)
NAVO Black and Minority Ethnic Project
Nottingham Council for Voluntary Service (NCVS)
Neighbourhood Development Company
New Art Exchange
New Basford Community Association
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Lesbian & Gay Switchboard
Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Racial Equality Council
Nottingham Action Group on HMOs
Nottingham Afghan Community Association
Nottingham Asian Arts Council
Nottinghamshire Coalition of Disabled People
Nottingham Community Network
Nottingham Community Transport
Nottingham Counselling Service
Nottingham Elders Forum
Nottingham Interfaith Council
Nottingham Law Centre
Nottingham Mencap
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Advocacy Alliance
Nottingham Pride
Nottingham Women’s Centre
Nottingham YMCA
Nottinghamshire Black Partnership
Nottinghamshire Chinese Community Association
Nottinghamshire Chinese Welfare Association
Nottinghamshire Deaf Society
Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum
Nottinghamshire Royal Society for the Blind
Nottinghamshire Vietnamese Project
Nottinghamshire Clubs for Young People
Nottinghamshire Youth Organisation Network (NYON)
One Nottingham
Organisation for Sickle Cell Anaemia Research
Oxfam Nottingham Campaigns Group
Pakistan Forum
Partnership Council
PATRA East Midlands
Project Rahnama
Queens Walk Community Centre
Real Life Options
Refugee Action
Relate Nottinghamshire
Self Help Nottingham
Shelter
Shiefton Youth Group & Supplementary School
Silverdale Community Association
Snapewood Community Association
Somali Community Centre
Southglade Access Centre & Bestwood Children’s Centre
Tennyson Street Play Centre
The Vine St Stephens Chuch Centre
The Zone
Top Valley Community Association
Vale Community Centre
Victim Support in Nottinghamshire
Volunteer Drivers Unit
West Indian Cavaliers Cricket Club
Wollaton Park Community Association
Working Links
YMCA International Community Centre