Partners
The Young Citizens’ Action Agenda NW is a partnership supported by the following organisations:
The Institute for Citizenship
is an independent charitable trust. The IfC aims to promote informed,
active citizenship and greater participation in democracy and society
through a combination of events, projects, research, education and
discussion and debate. The IfC President is David Dimbleby and key
projects include Schools Question Time with the BBC and Parliament’s
Education Service.
The Co-operative Group is the world’s
largest consumer co-operative with more than three million members,
over £14 billion turnover, and core business interests in food,
travel, pharmacy, funeral care and financial services. Led by The
Co-operative's values and principles, the strength and commitment of
the membership is vital in helping to achieve its goals from helping
the community to tackling global climate change.
The
Northwest Regional Development Agency’s (NWDA) core purpose is to
maximise the region’s competitiveness to build a stronger economy.
Their investment is carefully targeted at initiatives that unlock the
widest possible economic benefit. The Agency’s work is set out in
the Regional Economic Strategy. The NWDA is currently developing a new
single Regional Strategy called RS2010.
Government
Office for the North West is part of a network of nine Government
Offices each of which represents Whitehall in its region and supports
the work of a Regional Minister. The role of Government Offices is to
strengthen national policies, integrate regional strategies and drive
local delivery.
The BT Betterworld Campaign believes
communication skills are even more essential in the digital age and
that there is a need for a renewed emphasis on developing these skills
in young people in order to meet our three key objectives;
1) To ensure young people most in need are heard and helped
2) To develop young people's communication skills by sharing information
3) To help young people campaign to create real social change
Parliament’s
Education Service works with schools and Members of both Houses of
Parliament to support young people in developing their understanding of
Parliament and democracy. The Service aims to inform, engage and
empower young people to understand the work, history and relevance of
Parliament.
The Youth Charter has a proven track
record in the creation and delivery of social and human development
programmes and web based tools, research and services with the overall
aim of providing young people with an opportunity through sport, arts
and cultural activity to develop in life.
The Greater
Manchester Challenge is a three year programme (2008-2011) to improve
educational outcomes for young people in Greater Manchester delivered
in partnership between Government, schools, local authorities and all
those working to raise education standards.
AGMA (the
Association of Greater Manchester Authorities) was formed after the
abolition of the Greater Manchester County Council in 1986. The
Association is a partnership between the ten local authorities within
the Greater Manchester area.
