Community Organising, Decision Making, Participatory Budgeting and Crowd Sourcing. Turning Ideas into Action
A multi-sector collaboration of organisations in Nottingham including the Nottinghamshire Community Foundation (NCF), Positively Empowering Kids (PEK), Nottingham Council, Moments of Mass Mindfulness (MOMM), Integral Cities, The Nottingham Collective and other partners, have launched the first Participatory City initiative in
Youth Conference for Climate Change
January 11th, 2020, Cardiff.
It is hard to live in the world and not be aware of Global Warming and Climate Chaos. We are all familiar with the doom and gloom scenarios about the future of
Llandaff City Church in Wales Primary School is an English medium, voluntary-aided primary, co-educational Church in Wales day school, serving Llandaff and many surrounding areas. This interview with teacher Mal Short highlights how VocalEyes is being unitised by pupils to bring
Almost all the deeper conversations we’ve had on the topic of democratic systems over the past decade or so have concluded with the model of Liquid Democracy most likely being the best. With the current Representative model being hollow, with
As part of the City Transformers project to engage more young people in the C40 Network of sharing ideas for sustainable cities, VocalEyes is being used by students from international schools to suggest, rate and ideas for action around SDG
News Update
In partnership with Swansea County Council, (RDP) VocalEyes launched the Rural Community Voice initiative which is now in its second year. Covering 8 rural wards in the County, the predominant focus of the project has initially been within Pennard,
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Glynncollen primary school ended the academic year with a flourish! Having prioritised ‘reducing plastics’ in the school they orchestrated their campaign to change the way free milk is provided to the Foundation Phase in their school. Their simple plan was
At VocalEyes we are very happy to report that our young citizens in Glyncollen have had a very positive response to their letter about reducing plastics from Environment Minister at the Welsh Government, Hannah Blythyn, AM.
The children had prioritised ‘going
One of the challenges for schools wishing to put Pupil Voice into action is whether or not participation is authentic or merely tokenistic. In this blog we look at how children in Year 6 in Glyncollen Primary School took their
This week children, staff and parents at Burry Port Primary School made an important step towards improving the democratic culture of the school.
The children already use VocalEyes for Pupil Voice and these priorities now set the agenda for Student Council.