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InterACT is a program set up by the Citizenship Foundation that works with local youth organisations to promote community partnerships and mutual learning between asylum seekers or refugees and young people from local communities. The project is in its second year thanks to its funding by Comic Relief and the Paul Hamlyn [...]

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On Thursday, 31 March, Paying For It, a program run by the Citizenship Foundation in partnership with Aviva, held their Youth Budget 2011 event at the Treasury.

Paying For It runs the Chance to be a Chancellor competition, which is an interactive online challenge that encourages young people between the ages of 14 and [...]

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I came across a fun and engaging interactive tool on court processes from OpenLearn, The Open University’s portal for free learning content. ‘What’s your verdict?’ takes the user through a fictional court case and asks them to make judgements based on what they see and hear. It also teaches about [...]

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Yesterday I attended the Citizenship Foundation’s Go-Givers ‘Make a Difference Challenge’ event at City Hall. The event was held to celebrate the achievements of children from 21 different schools, in the Greater London area, on their ‘Make a Difference Challenge’ projects.
The ‘Make a Difference Challenge’ is run by the Go-Givers team and works with teachers [...]

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This week is Climate Change Week and I spoke with Veronica Persson about her role in our climate change programme, Make the Link - Climate exchange.
The project is run jointly by the Citizenship Foundation and Plan UK and works with students from six different countries (United Kingdom, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Kenya, Malawi, and [...]

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