Growing

Up Connected
An introduction to the work of
the Citizenship Foundation

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 The Citizenship Foundation works to strengthen
democracy by developing citizens. We want
young people to grow up informed, critical and
engaged in a fair and inclusive society. No one
should be less able to contribute. No one
excluded; no one overlooked.
Our 21 year history has taught us that this is
no easy task. But neither is it impossible. Today
our 30 staff help to resource a front line of over
10,000 teachers working with 3 million young
people. With contacts in 30 per cent of primary
and 80 per cent of secondary schools, we help to
bring ’citizenship’ to life — every day.
We have set ourselves three important goals:
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education for citizenship—through the kind
of programmes you will read about here,
working within and beyond school settings
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s CHALLENGINGPOLITICALAPATHYBYAWAKENING
PEOPLETOTHEINESCAPABLENEEDFORQUALITY
collective decisions: showing how they come
about, stimulating action and inspiring new
social leaders
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the many diverse and isolated cultures in
the UK, whether from ethnic, religious, class
or wealth divides, our future as citizens is
together and connected.
Like every charity we owe our success to our
partners and supporters.
Please join us - the task is great and is now
more important than ever.
Andy Thornton
Chief Executive Officer
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 Penyrheol
Comprehensive
School winning the
Magistrates’ Court
Mock trial in 2008

Young people taking part in

the Diversity and Dialogue
Urban/Rural exchange

St Saviour’s Primary
School take part in
the Go-Givers Make a
Difference Challenge
4 event 2011

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 Finalists of the Giving Nation TV Challenge 2007
First...
We know that ‘citizenship’ isn’t a word that gets
most people excited. No one says to a friend,
‘You’re a great citizen!’ to cheer them up…
Yet citizenship is critical to the way we achieve
our potential. It underpins our relationships:
giving structure and consensus to the way
we connect. In practice, society doesn’t just
happen, it gets made. And making it well
enables stability, cohesion and a good balance
between liberty and equality.
The Citizenship Foundation is here to stand up
for quality citizenship and ensure that the next
generation are ready to run the world.
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We want them to be prepared to meet the
growing number of challenges facing them,
appreciating the connection between their
rights, their responsibilities and their freedom.
But some people don’t have the freedom, or
opportunity to progress. Some may have the
chance to join in but don’t know how or lack
the confidence. And some just feel like they’re
on the outside. That troubles us, because when
it comes to society, there really is no outside.
No non-members.
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 Go-Givers
Our flagship programme for primary schools
enables children to understand the issues that
face our society. Its activities then help them to
develop the capability and confidence to act on
what matters to them.
More than 6,000 schools (nearly a third of all
the primary schools in England) have subscribed
to our web-based platform, which offers
over 100 lesson plans and interactive tools.
Eighty schools have taken part in our Make a
Difference Challenge, taking collective action to
help others in their communities and beyond.
Go-Givers and Giving Nation are supported by
the Office for Civil Society at the Cabinet Office.
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Giving Nation
Giving Nation inspires young people in
secondary schools to see what they’ve got to
offer others and challenges them to become
problem-solvers, not problems. And they do…
We give them training, with free materials
aligned to the National Curriculum, and £50
per class to set up a short-term organisation
designed to contribute to the common good.
In the last four years the programme has
involved over 160,000 students in nearly
500 schools, who raised over £780,000 and
volunteered for 940,000 hours, benefitting
more than 1,500 charities and causes.
Youth Act and InterACT
In the last seven years we have supported 40
groups of young people to develop campaigning
skills and work to improve their local
communities. From better buses to better race
relations, they’ve found truly imaginative ways
to put their case across. A number are still going
strong, such as the annual rally against gun and
knife crime in Tottenham.
Today, through InterACT, we’re extending this
into 12 cities across the UK, bringing new-arrival
communities such as asylum seekers together
with longer-term residents, creating a united
voice for support and change.
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 Growing up caring
It’s said that each new generation now absorbs
a hundred times more information than their
grandparents. We receive increasing levels of
stimulus, with decreasing time to make sense
of it all.
Such pressure can overload our will to care. We
can lose our sense of each other’s needs and
circumstances, and in the end lose our sense
of what’s at stake when people make decisions
that affect everyone.
Citizenship addresses our need to create
answers together. Answers that will work for
as many people as possible while recognising
that no one can be completely satisfied all the
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time; our world is too diverse for effortless unity,
too troubled for instant peace, too complex for
quick solutions, too changeable to foresee
every eventuality.
It’s crucial to recognise this. If you understand
the essence of the problem, you have some
hope of contributing to the answers. And a
nation that grows more unequal every day
needs people who care and are ready to
create answers.
We believe that information should empower
people, not overload them. We want them to
grow up both knowing and caring.
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 Magistrates’ Court and Bar
National Mock Trial competitions
This year, more than 9,000 students from
600 secondary schools across the UK
experienced the courtroom process through
these competitions. Interacting with over 1,000
legal personnel, they discovered how justice is
administered locally, in 85 Crown, Magistrates’
and High Courts.
Now in their 21st year, these competitions have
helped hundreds of thousands to understand
the legal framework on which our democratic
society is founded – and maybe saved a few
from unnecessary court appearances!
8 seekers to get the information they need.
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Lawyers in Schools
In some of the UK’s more deprived areas, we
have been enabling small groups of young
people to meet lawyers and understand
aspects of the law that are relevant to them.
It’s often an eye-opener for both sides.
We have 26 partners, both law firms and
the law departments of corporations such as
JPMorgan and the BBC. This year we will
put 400 lawyers in classrooms to work with
around 1,000 young people. They will discuss
everything from babysitting to gang crime, and
will also demystify what it means to talk to a
lawyer.
Our publications
Pictured are just three examples of our 50 or so
publications. In total, we’ve sold or given away
literally millions of copies.
The Young Citizen’s Passport (YCP) is now in its
15th edition. Distributed to over 2 million young
people over the years, this practical guide sums
up relevant laws and rights, giving the detail and
sense of the law. In 2010 Santander helped get
720,000 copies of My Money My Rights, an
extract from the YCP, to every mainstream,
special and independent school and pupil
referral unit in the UK for their year 10 (England
and Wales), S4 (Scotland) and year 11
(Northern Ireland) students.
There’s also Making Sense of Citizenship, the
government-supported handbook for teachers
of citizenship education, and Life and Law in
Britain, which helps new arrivals such as asylum
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 Growing up fair
Children often shout ‘That’s not fair!’ when they
feel badly done by.
A sense of what’s fair (and what isn’t) seems to
be inbuilt. It can make us see red, take to the
streets, start movements...
Fairness can relate to whether or not people feel
things are equal, but it’s also about whether or
not the rules have been made clear to everyone.
It feels equally unfair to get into trouble for
something you didn’t know was wrong.
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In a fair society everyone is aware of the rules,
not only to see why they’re there, but also not
to fall foul of the law through ignorance. They
know how and why the same rules apply to
everyone and that justice matters. They also
know what powers every citizen is entitled to
have – and how that can help to turn around
disadvantage.
We want people to grow up knowing about
(and believing in) fairness.
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 The Young Muslim
Leadership Network
Building on a number of our previous initiatives
to support participation of members of minority
communities, this network has helped a
new group to develop their capabilities and
commitment as social influencers.
Over two years we worked with a number of
young Muslim leaders to enable them to meet
with national and local figures (MPs, councillors,
cultural figures) and address issues through
making videos or writing reports that sharpened
up their thinking. Now 60 of Britain’s finest,
with a wide range of heartfelt opinions, have a
stronger voice – to everyone’s benefit.
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Citizenship Challenge in Pupil
Referral Units (PRUs)
PRUs support young people who are excluded
from or unable to attend mainstream school,
offering short-term alternative schooling.
Many PRU students come from families that
lack the necessary skills to take advantage of
the freedoms and rights that others enjoy. Our
Citizenship Challenge materials are particularly
relevant here. Designed in partnership with
PRU teachers, they have been praised for their
ability to get to the heart of the issues that
affect such young people, helping them to
reconnect with a society they feel has rejected
and excluded them.
Citizens’ Day Framework
Working with the Department for Communities
and Local Government, we have helped to
devise a national framework to celebrate the
way participation strengthens local communities.
This has opened the doors of councils and
community groups and has showcased the
many different ways in which people are
involved in the everyday workings of their
neighbourhoods. It has helped to get more
people, and from a wider variety of backgrounds
and walks of life, involved in civic affairs.
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 Growing up included
Many kinds of power can give people an
advantage. Being in on the big decisions,
having money or friends with influence, better
opportunities, better health, or just a bigger
vocabulary – most people would want all of
these. The only problem is that so many people
don’t have them, and many live on the other
side of advantage.
A strong democracy protects the right of
disadvantaged people to be included, and
supports their engagement in the decisions
that affect them. That way we all have the best
chance to negotiate and manage a fairer world.
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It also develops systems that are as inclusive
as possible, ones that value everyone’s
contribution. It recognises that some people
find it difficult to be included, and constantly
assesses how to overcome cultural barriers.
That kind of vigilance helps to make us all more
connected, safer and more prosperous.
We’d like to help make sure that that happens.
No outsiders.
We’d rather people grew up included.
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 Make the Link -
Climate exChange
Working with Plan International, we are
connecting schools in Europe and Africa so
that students can share their experiences of
climate change and develop campaigns with
one another. What may seem reasonable levels
of consumption in the UK turns out to destroy
trees and topsoil in Malawi. By making such
connections young people recognise real-life
impact.
Together, schools grow in understanding and
commitment around climate change, recruiting
their friends and school in joint awareness
and action.
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Act Global
Act Global gets young people engaged as
global citizens and supports them in taking
action on poverty-related issues. The project
has been funded by the Department for
International Development and is being
delivered jointly with Relief International UK.
It helps students to think critically and
creatively and provides a student network
offering opportunities to develop their own
arguments; analysing and evaluating evidence
before designing their own action project –
something near to home that can change the
world a little.
Paying for It
Run in partnership with Aviva, Paying for It aims
to increase economic awareness among young
people aged 14-18. It helps them to understand
how the economy functions, including the roles
of business and financial services and the rights
and responsibilities of consumers, employers
and employees.
In the current academic year, 1,200 lesson plans
have been downloaded, 80 teachers trained
nationwide and 2,800 young people involved
in our annual Chance to be Chancellor
competition, which gives them the opportunity
to tell the Government how they think it should
spend the public’s money.
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 From global to local
Being connected is not just about the people
we meet, or even the people we share this
country with, but all those who produce the
goods and services we consume, whose
economies are generating the funds for our
pensions, and so on.
Modern life needs us to address so many big
issues: trust between nations; climate change;
ideological wars; human rights; pandemics;
regional unions; international development;
sunrise economies; the global financial crisis.
The world is indeed a hundred times more
complex and interconnected than the one our
grandparents knew. And there’s no going back.
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To grow up British is to grow up global and
yet, our first experience of politics, the law,
economics, other cultures, social decisions,
choices and dilemmas is local.
Getting involved locally is like a gateway
– a route to experience the critical issues
first-hand, to discover why they matter and
how they connect.
We believe in what we call ‘citizen action’:
getting involved not just as volunteers but as
people who have real powers that connect to
democracy, that can enrich and regulate our
local community, our region, our country, our
world. This might start at home, but it doesn’t
end there.
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 ‘I was very excited and
shaking when they called
out my name… For me the
young persons award is
recognition for how serious
we are as young people
about living in peace and
clear proof that you can take
action and make a difference
no matter how old you are.’
Latyah
‘...the shop… didn’t want ‘Youth Act has given me
to exchange my product confidence and helped me to
but I stood there and use my energy and time in a
explained what I learned positive way. I love it.’
in my consumer law lesson’ Francion
Student Participant, age 15
Harris Academy,
Bermondsey

With thanks to the following parties who Comic Relief Mallesons Stephen Jaques
have supported the work described in Council of Europe Matrix Chambers
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Ministry of Justice
this publication:
Department for International Development Minter Ellison
Department of Communities and Local Government Montrose Associates
Addleshaw Goddard LLP
European Union Olswang
Allen & Overy LLP
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Ashurst
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Plan International
Association for Citizenship Teaching
General Council of the Bar for England and Wales Relief International
Aviva
Genworth Financial Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
BBC Legal Services
Her Majesty’s Court Services Santander
Bird&Bird
Hodder Education Group Slaughter and May
Blackstone Chambers
JPMorgan Standard Chartered
Cabinet Office – Office for Civil Society
Kennedys Stephenson Harwood
Calouste Guilbenkian Foundation
Law Society Charity Sullivan & Cromwell
Centrica
Linklaters Wates Foundation
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Magistrates Association White & Case LLP
14 CMS Cameron McKenna LLP

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Our advisory council:
Lord Phillips of Sudbury
Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon
Cherie Booth QC
Edward Garnier QC MP
Steve Hilton
Peter Kellner
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate
Jon Sopel
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As a young lawyer, I became alarmed observing As the examples in this brochure show, there
teenagers on the wrong side of the law, getting are a plethora of wonderful things happening
into ever deeper trouble. Our complex society in schools and beyond. Yet there can be no
seemed to have a recipe for social division and complacency as our world and society face
democratic decline. new and ever-more demanding challenges.
We remain passionate about inspiring young
I enlisted the Law Society to fund a novel people to develop the knowledge, skills and the
project to develop teaching materials to address will to meet those challenges.
the problem. Out of that sprang the Citizenship
Foundation, with our two teacher leaders at We hope that this publication has shown
the helm. you why.
Over 20 years later, we’ve made good Please join us. There’s so much to do.
headway. We can reasonably claim to be the
leading citizenship specialists in the voluntary
sector, having played a vanguard role in
developing citizenship education as a national
curriculum subject. We have seen what a
game-changer that can be for the way society Andrew Phillips OBE
supports young people to become engaged (Lord Phillips of Sudbury)
citizens - not passive subjects. Founder and President
Our board of trustees:
Michael Maclay (Chair) Laura Wood
Martin Bostock (Deputy Chair) Nick Johnson
Susan Simmonds (Deputy Chair) Oliver Benson
Christopher Kinch QC Piya Muqit
David Bromfield Rohan Silva
David Kerr Sir Keith Ajegbo
David Miles
Dr Emma-Jane Watchorn
Harinder Mann
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