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London Citizens Launch Citizens Agenda for 2012 Mayoral Election
London Citizens kicked off their Mayoral Elections campaign on Monday 16th January with the launch of the Citizens Agenda for London. The event was held at St Mary’s Church, Somers Town, the parish of the 1920s housing campaigner, Fr Basil Jellicoe. Community leaders from across London revealed a series of proposals, which London Citizens will...
TELCO makes its mark! 15 years of organising in East London
On Wednesday 30th November, 1600 TELCO leaders met at the Troxy Centre in Limehouse to celebrate 15 years of successful Community Organising in East London. Community Organising in the UK is at its strongest in east London, where 1000s of leaders have been trained in the art of public...
INVITATION: Citizens Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots (launches this Saturday, 11:00 – 12:30)
Citizens Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots Launch Saturday, October 15th 2011 11:00 – 12:30 Tottenham Town Hall (Map) http://www.citizensinquiry.org.uk/ The Citizens Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots is a community-led response to the riots. The inquiry is an organised long-term response to the riots led by community leaders who will shape the way civil society rebuilds Tottenham...
Citizens UK celebrates 10 years of the Living Wage Campaign
By Rachel Guthrie The living wage idea is no new idea – the need for a rate that pays according to means and needs, has long been recognised, hypothesized and theorised. Launched in 2001 by London Citizens. David Cameron said “the living wage is an ideas whose time has come” and yesterday, May 2nd 2011,...
The Day for Civil Society: celebrating 10 years of the Living Wage Campaign
In the summer of 2000, 15 experienced community leaders whose institutions helped found TELCO (The East London Communities Organisation) in 1996, gathered in Retreat at The Royal Foundation of St Katharine’s in Limehouse, to reflect on the theme of ‘What is happening to our families?’. In the rounds and introductions the complaint and condition was...
Shoreditch Delegates’ Assembly – The Chair’s Perspective
Hearing the words, “Kehinde you will be among the chairing committee for the delegate assembly”, I felt a mixture of excitement and fear. Excitement because I have been given the opportunity to do something I have never done, a once in a lifetime opportunity and because I was given the opportunity to develop myself in...
North London Citizens is founded
By Sonti Ramirez On the 30th March, 35 institutions consisting of schools, universities, Churches, Mosques and Synagogues came together to celebrate the launch of the North London Citizens Founding Assembly. It’s been a long journey for those working to get to this point and the event could not have been better received. 760 people turned...
800 citizens from North London to follow Gandhi’s footsteps
On March 30th 2011 diverse communities from across North London will come together to celebrate the founding of a new people’s alliance: North London Citizens. At the famous venue of Friends House, where leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi have spoken, we will revive and reignite North London’s long history of democracy in action. North London Citizens is a powerful alliance of schools and universities, churches, mosques...
West London Citizens say ‘Yes’ to Talent Audit
Joanna Cordero. 24th February 2011. The 24 institutions present at last night’s West London Citizens strategy meeting unanimously agreed to undertake a Talent Audit by July 2011. With the aim of analysing the resources that they already have – their members – institutions will become stronger and more effective. As Chris Wilkie of SS Peter...
TELCO takes stock of the past year’s achievements
By Joanna Cordero A decade after its launch, the Living Wage Campaign celebrated landmark achievements at the The East London Communities Organisation (TELCO) annual assembly on Tuesday. Jane Wills of Queen Mary University in London told TELCO members last night that: “In the last ten years, you have given at least 9000 workers in London...
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