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Brummie of the Year 2010 — Nominations Open

Travers, Doom, Tighe, Mitton, Malik, Furnell, Babu — who’s next? Nominations are now open for Brummie Of The Year 2010 — and you’re welcome to nominate any Brummie or Brum resident that has been great or just very very Birmingham this year. There will be no Brummie of the Year 2010.

Brummie of the Year 2008 – Nominations open

Who will follow in the bootsteps of landlord extraordinaire John Tighe, blues hobo Charlie Mitton, dancer-under-the-stars Malik, cricketer Jason Furnell and red panda Babu? Only the people of Birmingham can decide — after the nominations have been assessed by a panel. But nominations are now open and you’re welcome to list any Brummie or Brum resident that has put Birmingham on the map this year. How about “world’s worst boxer” Peter Buckley (although I’m sure he’s better than me)? Or Brummies for Obama leader Adam Smith? Maybe there’s an old dear who’ll be so excited by Kilroy in the Jungle that the orange man of British politics will triumph? Or is this the year that Metal will force it’s denim and leather clad way into the forefront? Wouldn’t it be great if concrete won out and we’ll recognise John Madin architectural genius behind the Central Library? All that we know is that the nominations wil close at 9am Sunday 23rd November and the voting will open the next day. Leave your nominations, with a reason, in the comments — and feel free to discuss amongst yourselves. NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

The Book for Birmingham – nominations open

To celebrate the National Year of Reading Birmingham Libraries want to capture the city's reading choices and ultimately find the "The Book for Birmingham". You can nominate a book any time up to 17 August 2008.

Despite the speed of the web, and my anal skim-reading of absolutely everything that mentions Brum, I still end up finding out things from the Evening Mail (or it’s 15 at a time, title only RSS feeds at least). Today I learnt that there are two projects in Brum up for Lottery Funding in one of these dreadful public votes (leading to lottery idol TV show). Nechells Baths are looking for help with the restoration, the Lottery web-site says £1.6M (but seems to talk in the past tense) while the Mail article talks about two thousand pounds . You can vote just with a click, without registering (think it looks at IP address, so if anyone was to continually reset their router and are on a ISP with dynamic IP addresses…). There’s a link through to an organisation called the Birmingham Foundation, a charity I’d never come across before, they obviously do a lot of good work but don’t like to talk about it. (photo by ray_wilkes2003)

Love will Voltaire us apart

The Chamberlain Awards, are a four-year old initiative from Birmingham City Council to reward exceptional customer service from council employees. A lovely idea, and if you have a favourite council employee I’d encourage you to vote using the clumsy nomination forms available here (closes on the 27th June). I was slightly amused, however, by the tone of the press release — a minefield of corporate bollockspeak that ends with the incongruous sight of Councillor Alan Rudge quoting Voltaire thus: The 18th century French philosopher Voltaire understood the importance of recognition when he said: ‘Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.’ It’s not just that it seems a touch out of place, Voltaire was a noted ironist and the quotation is far more likely to be a stab at those who cynically claim reflected glory, which is ironic, don’t you think?

As long as we don’t come last, give us credit

If this ‘Most Musical City‘ vote thing takes off, I can’t see Birmingham beating Liverpool or Manchester or Sheffield, or even London (despite there being very few London bands over the years, as opposed to bands based in London) – please let us beat Colchester tho’. Colchester, is that even a city (clue: it’s not)? It’s a publicity thing, as all these shitty polls are, but it’s promoting something that may be of use £2,000 interest free loans – to buy musical instruments with: Take it away is an Arts Council initiative designed to help more people get involved in learning and playing music. The scheme allows individuals to apply for a loan of up to £2,000 for the purchase of any kind of musical instrument, and pay it back in nine monthly instalments, completely interest free.

Push Bikes, Win Money

The Sustrans bid has won the People’s £50 millon. Rather inevitable, a “nationwide” project against “regional” ones, very disappointing though – not sure why the winner has been announced now when they were trailing it to be announced on the news tonight. It appears that the Black Country Came second, which is a good showing for the least fashionable bid – faggots and paas versus Robin Hood and Eden. The team behind the project are vowing to continue to work to make it happen, and good luck to them.

Vote Black Country – it’s not often I say that

If you’re still awake and watching ITV at 11 tonight (Thurs, just turn over after the Mighty Boosh) you’ll be able to see the lovely Toyah expanding on the reasons why you should vote for the Black Country as an Urban Park to win the People’s £50 million lottery grant. You might have seen our ‘vote’ badge down on the right (go grab one for your blog or myspace – or try this Facebook application). Here at BiNS we’ve thrown our support behind the Black Country’s campaign – as it will change the opportunities and quality of life for around half a million people, and is the only bid that will directly work at community level. All the projects have merit, but this is the one that will simply not happen otherwise – and as it happens to be on our doorstep there’s a little bit of selfishness there too. The Birmingham Mail have tried to push a disingenuous Black Country vs Birmingham angle (a tiny bit of the Sustrans money would be spent in Sutton) – to what end I’m not sure (selling papers obviously, but…). Anyway you can vote now, online, for free – or if you...

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Posts Tagged ‘ vote ’

Brummie of the Year 2010 — Nominations Open

Brummie of the Year 2008 – Nominations open

The Book for Birmingham – nominations open

Lottery vote time is here again

Love will Voltaire us apart

As long as we don’t come last, give us credit

Push Bikes, Win Money

Vote Black Country – it’s not often I say that

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