Politics: how deep do we need to get?
Yesterday Tony Breslin and I were called to give evidence to the Speaker’s Conference. We were asked specifically about young people’s engagement in politics and what role if any, that citizenship...
View Article‘Communities’ and ‘Networks’… Mind the Gap
I was struck by the clear distinction between these two terms in the article by Zygmunt Bauman in the new Demos / V publication ‘An Anatomy of Youth’. In his article ‘Belonging in the age of networks’...
View ArticleVisit our Schools Campaign – get involved!
I have first hand experience of the value businesses and their employees can bring to the classroom having been a volunteer myself and also spending my recent career managing employee volunteering...
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Value Life: The Movie
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...
View Article3 Clicks for the Big Society
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,...
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Remembrance as an act of citizenship
The many poppies of 2012 remind us again of the terrible conflicts of the last century and the fewer dreadful ones of this, lest we forget… In a world where violent deaths are much less common the...
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My first Lawyers in Schools session…
Monday 12th November saw the first Lawyers in Schools sessions of 2012/13 for Burlington Danes Academy. There, lawyers from Olswang and BBC Worldwide work in partnership to deliver the programme to two...
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Giving Nation go to India
On Saturday 16 February, five students from Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ school in Barnet will embark on a trip of a lifetime: a week long expedition to India to witness the work of the charity Raleigh...
View ArticleWhy take part in Lawyers in Schools?
Trainee solicitor Tamara Vasiljeva, co-ordinated volunteers and took part in the Lawyers in Schools programme for McDermott Will & Emery this year. They are partnered with London Nautical School in...
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