Citizens UK

Wishing all our colleagues, leaders, friends and neighbours who celebrate a happy Rosh Hashanah! 🍯🍏

You can help a refugee family feel at home again 🏡 Our Community Sponsorship scheme helps groups across the country to resettle refugee families into their neighbourhood ❤️ Find out how you can get involved below ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eqbTVzUe

We talk a lot about organising and organisers - but what does that actually involve? 🤔 As Daniel Mackintosh, Lead Community Organiser for West London Citizens, explains, community organising goes beyond campaign victories. It’s about creating the foundation for lasting change by strengthening relationships, developing leaders, and building collective power within communities. Take, for example, a group of parents who, through community organising, secured £78,000 to improve their local area. This story is just one example of how everyday people can come together to make change. 🔥

Excited about teaching & learning on our national online training over the next 3 days unpacking the craft of broad based organising! Great to be with Citizens UK staff + leaders from towns & cities across England & Wales, as trainees embark on completing the only accredited (by Birmingham Newman University) community organising course in the UK. Check out our different training opportunities for member organisations here: https://lnkd.in/dbESuzWH As the late Neil Jameson once said: "You don't quite know us, until you've completed our training!"

“We are all united, standing together for justice, dignity, and love.” 🤝 After the summer riots, Leicester’s community leaders took a stand - defying hatred with compassion & unity. Their message is clear: the city stands for kindness & inclusion. Read more from our Community Organiser, Zain Hafeez 👇 https://lnkd.in/ev73s6bE

Today The #Peterborough Citizens UK Leadership Team had our annual strategic leadership day. After 4years of making change together and gathering, today, it felt more than a "strategy day". What struck us most as a #Leadership Team is that we are here, together based on strong sense of shared #values, this is a powerful group of leaders in the City with a mission. Values of #caring more about the "just the 4 walls of their own organisation" but as #Peterborough as a whole City, a care and passion for the people within the City. We have woven #solidarity of common good between us and are committed to build civic-wide leaders of #change, strengthen organisations and make change. And we have achieved so much in 4years (another post to follow about that!) What this has led to is the creation of Peterborough's biggest #peoplepower alliance in the city. But we have ambitions to #grow and can't wait for the next 5years working together in trust and solidarity. Being part of the Peterborough Citizens alliance, we have shared vision for the City, solidarity in leadership and #allyship with one another. An absolute pleasure working with The Leadership Team - Andrew MacDermott MBA MICFor Nene Park Trust Rachel Nicholls Inspire Education Group Martin Campbell Meridian Trust Chris Dalliston Peterborough Cathedral Thomas Deacon Education Trust CEO, Scott Hudson Sarah Wilson Peterborough Museum & Archives Beckie MacLellan HELP (Helping Empower Lives in Peterborough) Yasmin Ilahi Gladca Anita Nayyar MSc. United Kingdom Islamic Mission (UKIM) UNISON Eastern Tim Roberts Samantha Smith 🌱 (she/her) Daniel Mackintosh Amazing hosting by Chris Dalliston Peterborough Cathedral today in the 🔆

📢 We are hiring! Are you interested in social justice and the common good? Are you passionate about driving change through the power of digital communications? If your answer is yes to the above, we at Citizens UK are looking for a Digital Engagement Manager to shape our digital engagement strategy, support communities to engage decision-makers and win change post-General Election. 💰 Starting from £37,056 plus £3,276 London Weighting 🌍 Hybrid / London (open to home-based from other UK locations with the ability to travel to London) 📅 Apply by 11.59 pm, Friday 27 September 2024 For more information and to apply, visit the link below ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eaiTiZPF #Hiring #SocialJustice #Communications #Vacancies

🎉 We’re delighted that Funmilola Stewart, Trust Assistant Principal at Dixons Academies Trust, member of Bradford Citizens, has been selected to review the school curriculum with the Government! 👏🏽 Earlier this year, Funmi spoke at our General Election assembly, calling on politicians to join us in advancing racial equity in education, including curriculum reform, teacher training and addressing inequities in the teaching workforce. As an expert in her field and a passionate advocate for her peers and students, Funmi will be an outstanding voice on this panel. We’re incredibly proud to work together to promote racial equity in education! 📄 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/dMf5diFH #Education #Leadership #Curriculum

Over the summer I had the privilege of taking a sabbatical. I wrote some reflections on our work with the NHS, in particular our work to co create a health movement called South London Listens. Grateful to all the hard work of colleagues at Citizens UK and across South East London Integrated Care System and South West ICS. You can read my reflections about the NHS giving community real power, about accountability, innovation and some genuine co production. See link in comments below. Lord Darzi's report this week is filled with a fair amount of gloom. Our work gives a sense of hope and possibility about how we can harness the power of communities to help tackle health and health inequalities together with the NHS. Huge recognition needs to go to: leaders of South London Citizens, particularly Rosemarie Mallett, Laura Marziale, Beverley W., Steve Lawrence, Lucy vyhnalkova (and hundreds more). NHS leaders Sir Norman Lamb, Ranjeet Kaile, Andrew Bland, Ann Beasley, Vanessa Ford, Neil Balmer, Danielle Perlman, Michael Bell, Martin Wilkinson, Tonia Michaelides, and of course my colleagues in South London Citizens.

📣 Call for expressions of interest: Evaluation and learning tender - No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) Partnership Citizens UK, Migration Exchange (MEX) and Praxis, for Migrants and Refugees are looking for an evaluation partner to contribute to the NRPF Partnership's learning and evaluation efforts. The selected evaluator will help the partnership to continuously learn, improve, and assess the effectiveness of our approach to driving meaningful systems change for those with no recourse to public funds. 🗓 Deadline to submit an expression of interest: Friday, 27 September 2024, at 5 pm. To learn more about the partnership and to apply, visit ➡️ https://lnkd.in/edRKKUCG On this page, you can download the Evaluation and Learning Tender below for full details, including an invitation to join an information session taking place on 17 September at 2 pm. Instructions on how to sign up are included in the tender specification.   Note: The NRPF Partnership is being developed by MEX, Citizens UK and Praxis, for Migrants and Refugees