Strategic objective:
Engaged individuals

We have a very practical view of citizenship, seeing it as a vital part of the process of empowering people and encouraging their active participation in society.

We will continue to build the desire and ability of individuals to participate in society through activities that give them the skills, knowledge and confidence to take part effectively.

  • We want people to have the tools and skills necessary to be agents of change in their lives and in the wider community;
  • We want people to see and feel the effectiveness of getting involved
  • We will campaign to ensure that the democratic process, our civic institutions and our civil society are open to those who wish to participate, and are more supportive of those doing so for the first time.

By 2013, we will have:

  1. Continued to developed programmes that enable people to participate. We will demonstrate the benefits of ‘taking part' to individuals, to their communities and to society as a whole, especially those individuals least likely or able to engage;
  2. Further identified the skills that individuals and communities most need in order to be actively engaged, and supported the development of these skills;
  3. Generated a debate, led by young people, about how our democracy needs to change and about the way in which they will play a part in driving such change;
  4. Campaigned for more accessible public institutions, especially for the young and the marginalised, with demonstrable impact;
  5. Developed our youth leadership programmes in close co-operation with policy-influencers, practitioners and potential and emerging young leaders.

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