Essex

Since our founding in 2019, we have:

• Won a campaign to create the first inclusive women-only swimming session in Colchester.
• Secured vital funding for youth work in Essex.
• Got North East London NHS Foundation Trust to improve signposting for mental health provision for young people in Colchester.
• Listened to 1,000 people to identify a common agenda to hold the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner to account.
• Secured refunds to Essex Uni students from a cancelled First Bus route.
• Secured improved lighting and safety at Greenstead roundabout in Colchester.
• Provided devices to assist with digital inclusion for service-users of Colchester FoodBank and YMCA Essex
• Won a commitment to becoming a Living Wage Accredited employer from Southend Borough Council.
• Won a commitment from Essex PFCC to make streets safer around Anglia Ruskin University campus in Chelmsford.
• Won a commitment from Essex PFCC to making it easier to report misogyny as a hate crime in Essex and to build people's confidence to do so.
• Secured commitment from Southend Borough Council to give consent to an application to sponsor a refugee family from Syria.
• Won an Excellence in Teaching award for the 'Democracy in Action' module we teach at Essex University.