http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main If it doesn\'t fit elsewhere, it goes in here! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:58:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bex (16), a student from Rushcliffe Comprehensive School, winners of the 2008 Giving Nation national award, reports on her experience of the Giving Nation Awards day in Westminster. This is Bex‘s report on her and her charity team‘s experience of the Giving Nation Awards day in London and ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/11/21/bex-a-student-from-rushcliffe-school-reports-on-her-giving-nation-awards-day/ The worst thing about poverty is how deeply and unexpectedly it affects lives. When we begin to list that indicate poverty we think of a lack of food, a safe place to live, work, education, maybe at a most basic level of description: money. But, for me, it is the ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/10/15/the-problem-is-complex-is-the-solution-simple/ The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. Bertrand Russell Poverty in the UK, or ‘relative poverty’, has achieved a general consensus amongst the ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/10/15/poverty-and-social-exclusion-in-the-uk/ The traditional discourse on the alleviation of poverty has always focused on what governments can do to eradicate or minimise the effects of poverty on their population or on populations across the world. Wikepedia estimates that approximately 1/2 of the world's population suffers from poverty which indicates that it is ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/10/15/action-on-poverty/ One of the issues surrounding poverty, cited in research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is lack of media exposure; non-news broadcasts rarely mentions the subject, and when they do they tend to focus on extreme cases. There's an apparently easy response to that: the internet. The resources are there now to ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/10/15/digital-mentors-as-advocates-for-the-poor/ The other night I went to Education Unbound 2008, a debate on 'how social technologies are blurring formal and informal learning'. The panel comprised Dan Sutch (Futurelab), David Noble (Hillside School, Fife), Andy Gibson (School of Everything) and Catherine Howell (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies). It was chaired by ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/10/14/anyone-for-socio-political-networking/ This weekend we went away to Lewes with 3 young people who were interested in campaigning on pan-London issues. Aakash, Isatu and Lara were from the NW and SE and had only met once at a consultation for the Government of London with Tessa Jowell. We all met up at Victoria ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/07/28/and-so-it-begins/ Was the chant of students, teachers and community members at the fifth Value Life march in Haringey today. The Youth Act team went to support the work of this group that started in 2003 with Youth Act training. It was early starts all round to get to South Tottenham ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/07/28/when-i-say-value-you-say-life/ On Thursday I went to the first 2gether festival in Shoreditch. The festival was an attempt to bring practioners together to talk about how to use digital media to bring about social change. Now I am no deigital media genius so I was a little apprehensive that the conference would be ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/07/07/2gether08/ On 23rd June 2008 Ade and I took a group of young people from the Youth Act Graduate Council to a consultation by the Government Office of London with Rt Hon Tessa Jowell who were trying to ascertain what the governments priorities for Young people should be. Meeting at ... http://citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/blogs/main/2008/06/24/are-young-peoples-voices-truly-being-heard/