About this Event
West Midlands Trains invites you to tune in and 'virtually' attend the Annual Community Rail Conference which is broadcast live from Carrs Lane Conference Centre in Birmingham.
We will be looking back at a year of intense community activity and setting out our vision as customers and communities play a leading part in the recovery and renaissance of the railways.
Focussing on the role of our volunteers who enrich their own local communities whilst supporting the railways.
We will introduce the audience to enterprising people across our network who are working hard to support their neighbourhoods whilst building back their local economies.
We will be publishing a paper called 'Destination Stations' outlining a vision for railway stations to become community hubs, based on 'the power of localism' to drive both economic and social regeneration in the regions we serve and aligned to the Network Rail vision for 'Living Stations' : The railway Stations of the future as the beating heart of local business and community wellness (Network Rail/Arup 2020)
The online Audience will be made up of:
- Businesses
- Stakeholders
- Communities
- Customers
- Collaborators
- Social Entrepreneurs
- Partners
The Agenda
10.00 - 12.30
Remembrance Day
11.00 A two-minute silence in the Carrs Lane Church Hall as we remember those who gave their lives so that we are free to live in peace.
- Welcome
- Business Update from West Midlands Trains
- Presentations by Directors for London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway
- Q&A with two social entrepreneurs and their story of the Customer & Communities 2020 project 'Thrive' a Health and Wellbeing programme delivering PopUp Wellbeing Hubs around inner city Birmingham
- WMT Vision for Community Rail, aligned with the Williams-Shapps Review
- How can communities help the recovery of rail?
- Placing the customer at the heart of the railway business
- A community rail model for the new era: Community Station Partnership West Midlands Railway
- Building Better Opportunities: Travelling with Confidence London Northwestern Railway
- Community Trailblazers & Community Rail success stories
10am Event Opens (Fay Easton)
10.10 Business Update for West Midlands Trains
10.25 London Northwestern Railway: Community Rail 2021 : The Film
10.30 Tim Bellenger, Head of Stakeholder & Community, London Northwestern Railway
10.40 Guest Speakers
11.00 WMT Remembrance Film To mark the day World War One ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918. A two-minute silence will be held to remember people who have died in wars.
11.02 Short Break
11.15 West Midlands Railway: Community Rail 2021: The Film
11.20 Fay Easton, Head of Stakeholder & Community, West Midlands Railway
11.40 Jonny Wiseman, Director Customer Experience, West Midlands Railway
12 .00 'In Conversation' Social Entrepreneurs Shamala Antonio and Parveen Talwar discuss the 2021 Customer & Communities project 'Thrive' Health and Wellbeing PopUps for inner-city Birmingham, and the associated success of the 'Smoothie Bike'
12.20 Customers, Communities and Commerce : Towards 2022
12.25 Fatma Mohuidoin Birmingham Junior Poet Laureate 'Wylde Hope'
12.30 Event Closes
For a sneak preview of the first 'Community Station Partnership' in the country (to be featured at our conference) click here for the website
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
VIRTUAL SCREENING from Conference Centre, Carrs Lane, Birmingham, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00