Bournville Group

Members

We draw our members from many diverse backgrounds and age groups with people travelling from around Birmingham to our meetings. Our group includes university lecturers, unemployed people, health workers, retired people, teachers and others. We include able-bodied and disabled. We bring experience, contacts and enthusiasm from many fields - business, Information technology, education, trade unions, science, accountancy, charities, community projects and more.

Specific campaigns

We currently have members of the group coordinating activities on arms control and torture and our prisoner of conscience. This means they receive information from Amnesty International UK which outlines work that needs to be done and plan how the group can address these issues. Often this is in the form of letter writing.

Specific posts/responsibilities

We have a chairperson for meetings, a secretary who deals with correspondence and other administration matters, a treasurer who maintains and reports on the accounts, and a publicity officer who deals with the media. Others in the group take on various responsibilities either individually or in groups - visiting schools to speak on human rights, fundraising, selling Christmas cards, storing group property etc., or distributing the electronic and paper newsletters.

Contributions by non attenders

People contribute to the efforts of the group in a variety of ways and we are especially keen to find ways for people who cannot attend meetings to become involved. So far, this includes letter writing, making items for sale on our stalls and putting together our newsletter.