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Community leadership is not a science; it is a craft. Citizens UK’s Training enables leaders to become more strategic and more powerful.

Citizens UK has trained 1000s of leaders from all ages and backgrounds. Our training curriculum has been developed over the past 20 years and has led to hundreds of victories at local, city-wide, and national levels. Our teaching is backed by real stories of success.

Training is offered to individuals from a variety of backgrounds who share an interest in strengthening civil society and working together for the common good. Part of the training experience will be working with other community leaders from diverse institutions on the universals of broad based organising.

Regular training takes place locally to support and strengthen civil society institutions and to identify and develop new leaders. Courses can be tailored to local interest with alternative modules available for Schools, Congregations, NGOs, Unions and Others. Pathway courses are usually held in local civil society institutions. City Wide Training takes place in Local Centres and National Training at Residential Centres.

Applicants for community leadership training are typically nominated by Community Organisers. Interested candidates will be invited to first meet with an Organiser from Citizens UK. After training a review will take place to help candidates consider next steps and plan a course of action.

New leadership techniques:

• How to connect faith and values to practical action.
• The role that power and self-interest play in holding a group together and making the world work.
• An introduction to a campaigning methodology that helps strengthen your organisation allowing you, your family, and your community to gain recognition and maintain dignity.
• Learning takes place through role play, formal lectures, video, and group discussion. The tutors are all experienced community organisers working in different parts of the city.
• Previous attendees have been of various ages, from teenagers to pensioners. They include people from Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jewish and Hindu congregations, and from local trade union branches, student groups, tenants organisations, and community centres. The diversity of attendees makes the training even more valuable.

Click here for dates of our upcoming 2- and 6-day trainings.