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Hammersmith Broadway – A Living Wage Zone?
Article by Giles Finnemore (Holy Ghost and St Stephens) On Friday 23 July around 80 leaders from Hammersmith and Fulham Citizens gathered together in St Paul’s church Hammersmith. It was a warm, sunny day and the mood was cheerful. After all, we were here for ACTION! In the vaults of St Paul’s Church we did...
Plan Zheroes
Plan Zheroes – the latest campaign from West London Citizens’ Greener Planet Action Team Every year the UK food retail industry sends 1.6 million tonnes of food to landfill. That is bad enough in itself but think about this. At the same time as that food is being thrown away there are 4 million people...
BBC News – Self-help plan to make the streets safer
Click here for the latest BBC article on the CitySafe Campaign.
New website!
This is it, our brand new website! CitizensUK.org is the online hub for everything to do with our work. Make sure to check it out regularly for news updates, the latest events and exciting opportunities.
Undergraduates teach financial literacy to London schools
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Short film made by London Citizens’ Money Mentors about their month teaching financial literacy across London.
Clegg announces end of child detention
On Wednesday 21st July at Prime Minister’s Questions, Nick Clegg announced the end of child detention at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre. This is fantastic news – and a major step forward towards ending child detention altogether. Mr Clegg promised a fuller statement in the near future which would offer more details. It is less than a...
Leading universities receive Living Wage Awards
Seven of the University of London’s major colleges have agreed to pay their low-wage staff the London Living Wage, fixed recently by the mayor, Boris Johnson, at £7.85. The London Living Wage (LLW) is a London-weighted minimum wage which takes into account the higher costs of living in the capital. Since it began campaigning for...
Citizens Youth Assembly 2010 – Live Blog
Introduction: Aisha here- i’ll be blogging with Rohit and Rex. We’re the digital media team. Today we’re going to be sharing how the London Citizen Youth Assembly unfolds. Ashlee J and Tee J have been on stage and we have just had the roll call of all the groups and institutions involved. Fantastic to see...
4,000 London kids to get financial education
Original article from MoneySavingExpert.com A programme to help educate teenagers in London on how to manage money has been launched this week. The ‘Money Mentors’ scheme from the London Citizens community group will see 4,000 year 10 and 12 school kids from some of the capital’s most deprived boroughs taught by undergraduates (see the Teen...
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