Citizenship Foundation blog

Just as night follows day, yesterday’s pre-launch of Chance to be Chancellor was followed today by this year’s Budget being called for the 12th March.

The pre-launch event of our new competition was led by a crack team made up from Citizenship Foundation and Norwich Union staff, the Times newspaper and the excellent teachers of Skinners Companys School for Girls in London. Skinners Year 10 Citizenship class got the chance to be the first young people to complete the activities and create entries for the competition. (more…)

It is often said that today’s young people are turned on to causes but turned off from politics. Except of course, the disaffected. They are neither turned on to causes nor drawn to politics. What’s worse they may have absolutely no sense of the connection between causes, politics and their own life, because except for the microcosm of their own experience, someone else ‘owns’ society: makes the rules, enforces them… and appears to leave them out. (more…)