Voices blog

Yesterday, groups of young people from across London gathered to talk about what action they could take to tackle a range of global issues they were passionate about as part of Act Global (a project by the Citizenship Foundation and Relief International).
Students had been working on lesson plans and after school resources from the Act [...]

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The Scouts Association has put together a series of interactive workshops for young people to meet with MPs and council leaders from across the country.
There will be refreshments and a light buffet and a travel bursary of up to £40 per person is also available.
The events will be held in:
• Liverpool: Liberal Democrat, 19 [...]

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Last night Leila and I headed out to Google UK’s HQ for the launch of the Young Foundation’s report about using digital technology to help engage young people in social action called ‘Plugged in, untapped‘.
Apart from my excitement of being inside the Google office (note to self and others, this is the COOLEST office in [...]

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Yesterday a team of Citizenship Foundation staff headed off to a West end premiere of Value Life, a movie by a group of students from Gladesmore Community School to tackle the issue of gun and knife crime in London.
It was amazing to arrive at the Prince Charles cinema to be greeted by a red carpet [...]

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I came across this story on Paul Evan’s blog this morning about whether prisoners should be able to vote and I was particularly struck by the comment in the video about voting prisoners in the states that ‘you should loose certain privileges when you go to prison and voting is one of them’
I have to [...]

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