Citizenship Foundation: Partners and Supporters

Partners and Supporters

The Citizenship Foundation depends on central support from its business partners and leading grantmakers in order to develop innovative programmes and independent research.

"The Citizenship Foundation's legal twinning scheme offers lawyers and attendees something of real value. As a volunteer with the scheme, I gained a feeling of giving something back and of influencing the progress and outlook of a future generation, as well as gaining a fresh perspective on the law. Similarly, attendees gain an understanding of how the law operates, and the numerous ways it relates to their lives, along with an insight into a profession beyond the classroom walls."
—Alistair Russell, Trainee Solicitor

Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw and Goddard is a major law firm with offices across the country. They have worked with the Citizenship Foundation since 2006 firstly through twinning programme in Manchester and Leeds and more recently through supporting and sponsoring the Magistrates Court Mock Trial Competition.

"We believe that the Foundation offers a good way for the citizens of tomorrow to get a better understanding of issues that they may be faced with in the future and believe that the Foundation offers a valuable insight into how the law can affect all our daily lives"
—Marcus Jamieson-Pond, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager.
Allen & Overy

Allen & Overy are a major law company with 28 offices in 20 countries across the world. The Citizenship Foundation has benefited from their financial and project support for the last five years. As well contributing towards our core costs, Allen & Overy have been engaged in the Lawyers in Schools Twinning programme since 2006.
The Bar Council
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is a leading international law firm with 12 offices located in major financial centres around the world. For the last year it has participated in the Lawyers in Schools Twinning programme, with 18 lawyers from its London office carrying out active learning sessions on legal issues in a local secondary school.
CMS Cameron McKenna
Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank has worked in partnership with the Citizenship Foundation since 2004, primarily as funding partner for Youth Act and the website for their moneymoneymoney project.

Our relationship with Deutsche Bank has flourished in this time. Deutsche Bank’s CSR programme in the UK has recognised the importance of citizenship for a number of years and the Foundation were the first organisation that was able to provide them with a way to encourage and support the next generation to actively contribute to their local communities.

"The Citizenship Foundation’s commitment to innovate community based projects in London, is coupled by their national reach, through a range of political and law related active learning competitions, a plethora of highly respected teaching materials and their role in influencing the education and citizenship policy agenda."
—Kerry Ortuzar, Community Development Manager
Dods

Dods is the leading political information, public affairs and policy communication specialist in the United Kingdom and the European Union. They have been a Citizenship Foundation Business Partner since 2006, enabling us to stage a number of events for other Business Partners and potential supporters.
Hodder Education

Leading publisher Hodder Education is the publisher of the Citizenship Foundation's textbooks and practical guides to Citizenship issues for young people and teachers. The award winning Young Citizens' Passport is a bright example of the affordable resources to inspire and empower young people about their rights and roles in society that the partnership has produced. Hodder Education supports the Citizenship education agenda through their commitment to producing the best available curriculum and CPD resources to support Citizenship teaching.

Please click here to see the range of citizenship resources published by Hodder Education in association with the Citizenship Foundation.
Kennedys

Kennedys is an established law firm with international offices as well as five offices in the UK. They have been participating in the Lawyers in Schools Twinning programme since 2006 through their London office, and have recently added their Chelmsford office to the scheme. Currently 12 of their staff are participating in the scheme.
Linklaters
Lovells
The Law Society Charity

The Law Society Charity started its long relationship with the Citizenship Foundation in 1984, funding the Law in Education project. This project, championed by Andrew Phillips, developed teaching materials to introduce students to their legal rights and responsibilities and the role of law in a democratic society. Based on the achievement of the Law in Education Project, the Citizenship Foundation was established in 1989, and began by broadening its emphasis on law-related education into active learning competitions that have been bringing the law to life for young people for fifteen years. Highlights of the Citizenship Foundation's strategic work with the Law Society Charity includes, for example, a successful Law Matters conference bringing the legal and educational professions together. The relationship with the Law Society Charity has been vital to the Citizenship Foundation, with the Law Society Charity making a critical contribution to the Foundation's ability to develop new programmes and ways of achieving better understanding of the law.
Norwich Union

Norwich Union is a founder member of the Citizenship Foundation Business Partner network, joining in October 2006. The relationship began with Norwich Union’s support of the Citizenship Foundation’s youth parliament competition from 2003 to 2006; also developing the Holyrood version of the competition and the supporting national political journalism competition.

Norwich Union and the Citizenship Foundation are now working together through the Business Partners network to develop the next generation of programming that will meet educational objectives shared by the two organisations.
Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People (SCCYP)
Slaughter and May

Slaughter and May is a leading international law firm with a worldwide corporate, commercial and financing practice. They have been a partner in the Lawyers in Schools Twinning programme since 2004, the second firm to join the scheme.
Wilkinson Hardware