BBC seek volunteers for Wildlife Revival event

The BBC are looking for volunteers for a Britain’s Big Wildlife Revival Event taking place as part of the BBC’s Summer of Wildlife. This event will be held on the 14th September  in Sutton Park.

This summer the BBC will come together to celebrate the UK’s extraordinary wildlife.

The BBC is going to harness the power of much loved programmes and new ground-breaking nature content from across the BBC to create a ‘Summer of Wildlife’ – a season which will galvanise and inspire people across the UK to celebrate, discover and ultimately protect the sheer range, speciality and importance of wildlife in the UK.

Birmingham has been selected to host the only Britain’s Big Wildlife Revival event. It will take place at Sutton Park, Birmingham on Saturday, September 14th 2013. It is expected to be open to the public from 10.00am to 5.00 pm, and will be free to enter.

Volunteer Roles
We are looking for a minimum of 15 volunteers to act as stewards for the event.

Exact duties will be allocated on the day. These are expected to include:
·        Meeting and greeting visitors at the gate
·        Acting as an information point for visitors
·        Signposting visitors to attractions and suggesting alternatives if their first choice is too busy
·        Managing queues
·        Supporting partner activities

All roles will be ambassadorial and information based. You will be expected to:
    Encourage people to get involved
    Be a positive face of the BBC and BBC Springwatch
    Be on hand for any questions or queries
    Be enthusiastic about the event and about the Summer of Wildlife

You do not need to have any wildlife or conservation knowledge or background.

Please note that this is an outreach event and volunteer roles are not related to television production.

Download the PDF application form and information sheet from the DMB website here

Conference on Digital Health

Do you have the skills and expertise to innovate with Health Sector? Check out this free event:

Conference on Digital Health
Institute of Digital Healthcare at the University of Warwick
Thursday, 25th July 2013 0900 -1630

The Insititute of Digital Healthcare is a five year partnership with NHS, WMG and Warwick Medical School which aims to improve people's health and wellbeing through the development, evaluation and use of innovative digital technologies and services.

The purpose of this workshop is to hold a collaborative event with NHS partnering organisations, industry representatives and University colleagues from the West Midlands. We envisage it will set the agenda for the future AHSN digital theme programme:

To create effective networks and contacts across the West Midlands region for moving forward the use of digital technology and informatics in the delivery of healthcare
Build a framework strategy for the digital work-stream of the AHSN
Demonstrate how IDH can support the adoption of innovation across the NHS
Identify possible future opportunities for innovation and collaborative working

Click here to book or for more info on the venue

'Up' your street smarts with Smart Streets - event

Designing Smart Streets – InfoLab21 event 25 June Lancaster University

Digital Birmingham is leading the Smart Cities agenda on behalf of Birmingham City Council. It is working with many of its strategic partners to ensure that we can maximise the city assets and resources and accelerate the release of data so that it can be used by businesses to create new applications, products and solutions to help the city achieve its strategic outcomes.   The potential benefits of Public Service Information have been estimated by Deloitte at £1.8bn of direct value with wider social and economic benefits raising it to £6.8bn.  The release of real time information by Transport for London has enabled new apps to be developed, promoting public usage and generating business opportunities.

The InfoLab21 event on 25 June at Lancaster University provides a great opportunity for businesses and organisations who work in app development or who have an interest in open Data to develop creative solutions for highways / street maintenance challenges and work on a competition entry for part of a £60K prize fund. The project is a TSB funded collaboration and will bring together project partners Carillion, Balfour Beatty and Amey and the small business community to explore how our highways can be digitally enhanced/enabled and, more importantly, what data might that might provide and how a range of stakeholders, particularly smaller businesses, can access the data and make money from it.

To register your interest visit:  http://smartstreets.eventbrite.co.uk/#
For further information please email: Paul.Rose@amey.co.uk or download poster at: http://www.digitalbirmingham.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/DesigningSmartStreetsPoster.pdf

3D Print event - do.CAKE 25th June

You are invited to attend the next FREE do.CAKE morning 10am on Tuesday 25th June 2013, at do.collaboration's Chowen and Garfield Weston Foundation Prototyping Hall. This month's exciting theme is 3D printing and there will be presentations from Black Country Atelier and 3D Creation Lab.

To find out more and register, visit http://docake.eventbrite.co.uk/

image credit Keith Kissel

Venue:

do.collaboration Hub
Chowen and Garfield Weston Foundation Prototyping Hall, 

Ground Floor, ERI Building
University of Birmingham, Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston
United Kingdom, B15 2TT

Job Opportunity - Creative Skillset

Creative Skillset's Jo Welch has drawn our attention to a post they have just advertised for a Training Network Manager (Creative and Digital Media). Sounds exciting, why not check it out?

 The timescale for recruitment is very tight and the closing date is 12th June. Click this link to view the details on the website, which are also copied below, so please do share, post and tweet as you see fit. The post holder will work closely with existing networks and employers to ensure best use of resource for the area.
 
Training Network Manager: Creative and Digital Media
Birmingham
Full time
£38,000 pa
Fixed term until March 2014
Applications close at midday 12 June 2013
Interviews to be held 18 June 2013

The Training Network Manager (Creative and Digital Media) will build relationships with employers, raise awareness of apprenticeships, stimulate and aggregate demand for apprenticeships, link employers with quality training providers, and support outreach and recruitment of apprentices.
Rather than duplicate existing structures, this network will work closely in partnership with business groups, such as existing media clusters, trade associations and the Local Enterprise Partnership, across Birmingham and the West Midlands.
The Training Network Manager will also work as part of a team of five other Managers serving the Advertising and Marketing Communications sectors, the Fashion and Textiles sectors and the Creative and Digital Media sectors in London, Manchester and Bristol.