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 the evicted councillors and a big thank you to everyone Read more…
It’s now Saturday afternoon and on Monday morning I’m a Councillor kicks off in 33 councils across the country (Dumfries and Galloway finished yesterday as it is now half term in most of Scotland). All is quiet now, a few councillors are still to post their manifestos and Sophia is Read more…
I’m a Councillor, Get me out of Here 2006! has gone live in Scotland already this year. Dumfries & Galloway Council’s event has been live all week. On October 9th a further 33 councils from all over the UK will go live too. We’re covering all four corners this year. Read more…
It’s been a hectic day today calling all the councils who have expressed an interest in I’m a Councillor but from whom we’ve not had a definite yes or no. We’ll do a final count tomorrow but it looks like we’ll have about 35 councils taking part in October which Read more…
The LGA’s first magazine are hopefully running an article in September about what it is like to participate in I’m a Councillor from a councillr’s perspective. In pulling together some material for the article I came across this quote from Cllr Pat Todd in Canterbury. "I found the experience rejuvenating. Read more…
It put a huge smile on my face when Cumbria County Council phoned us up today to say that they want to participate in I’m a Councillor, Get me out of here, and that they’ve had 66 schools interested in taking part, out of which they had to choose 20.