We wish you a Fizzy Christmas. In a belated moment of Christmas Cheer we have sent out some bottles of Champagnes to the winners of the draws in the surveys we have run recently. The winners were: ICELE Recruitment Survey Read more
Today was the turn of Brighton and Hove City Council to take part in LifeSwap. The photos are still coming in thick and fast at 8.45pm as the Council folk head home and into late meetings and the young people Read more
It seems that CampaignCreator has won the EuroCities Participation award for Bristol City Council.
mySociety, famed for eDemocracy sites such as Pledgebank and theyworkforyou.com, have developed an open source online petition service for the 10 Downing Street site (http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/). It will be interesting to see how well it gets used. It’s been launched as Read more
Well, I’m a Councillor 2006 has now finished. It’s been our best year yet and we’ve had an absolute ball. A list of our winning councillors is up on the site here. Congratulations to all our worthy winners, commiserations to Read more
Well it’s been a gruelling couple of weeks for the councillors (and those of us working behind the scenes too! No, no, it’s fine, we don’t want sympathy, we do it for the love of democracy. I seem to remember). Read more
Students in Coleraine were first to hear about progress in the NI Devolution talks today. During a Live Chat session Cllr John Dallat who was attending the talks in St.Andrews broke into the conversation to say: Cllr John Dallat: Peter Read more
I often tell people, when I’m talking about I’m a Councillor, that it’s definitely a two way thing. It’s not just about young people learning more about local democracy (as if they are empty vessels that just need filling up Read more
"Once elected, the job of an MP is to represent the people of his or her constituency (constituents) in Parliament, whether or not they voted for him or her."Factsheet M1 Members Series Revised October 2005 "My job as an Labour Read more
Well, that was the busiest day we’ve ever had on IAC, and it was the first day! It’s only going to get busier. The energy of young people faced with a forum like this is a joy to behold, but Read more