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Interesting links

Active Citizenship

• Black Country Pathfinder – The Take Part Pathfinder in the Black Country
• Council of Europe – Founded in 1949, the Council of Europe seeks to develop throughout Europe common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights.
• Institute for Citizenship – Citizenship in schools.
• Local Leadership Academy – This link takes you to a series of distance learning materials aimed at helping councillors in their ward roles of community leaders and advocates.
• The Citizenship Foundation – An independent charity which aims to empower individuals to engage in the wider community through education about the law, democracy and society.
• The Council for Education in World Citizenship – Founded in 1939 as an independent organisation dedicated to education for international understanding, for young people of all ages. Its mission is to develop and promote active citizenship.

Community Action

• Community Group – All the information you need to make your community or neighbourhood a safer, cleaner and more enjoyable place to live.

Community Engagement

• Community engagement in policing – Guide and examples of community engagement.
• Cumbria County Council’s Framework for Community Engagement – A very useful document that includes discussion around ‘what is community’ through to a checklist for doing community engagement.
• Local Involvement Networks (LINKS) – Local Involvement Networks (LINks) aim to give citizens a stronger voice in health and social care services
• Neighbourhood Policing – ‘Neighbourhood Policing’ is based on local priorities identified by local people as the issues that need to be dealt with in their area.
• Scottish Centre for Regeneration – Community Engagement How To Guide – This guide has been developed to help people who are involved in community engagement.
• The Creative Collective – An innovative media, personal development and training consultancy.
• The National Institute for Clinical Governance – An assessment of community engagement and community development approaches including the collaborative methodology and community champions.
• Urban Forum – Focusing on transforming power relationships between communities and Government, the Urban Forum supports communities to influence the design and delivery of urban programmes.

Ethics

• Global ethics – Like all ethics, attempts to answer the question of ‘how ought we to live?’ When this question is considered globally questions of justice — and how to redress injustice — become paramount.
• National Coalition for Independent Action – National Coalition for Independent Action is about legitimising, promoting and demonstrating the value of independent voluntary and community action.
• New Economics Foundation – The ‘New Economics Foundation’ is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being.
• Red Pepper – An independent magazine of news, debate and culture for the left.
• Statewatch – A non-profit-making voluntary group founded in 1991. It is comprised of lawyers, academics, journalists, researchers and community activists.

Gender

• European Women’s Lobby – The European Women’s Lobby (EWL), the largest co-ordinating body of national and European non-governmental women’s organisations.
• National Alliance of Women's Organisations – An umbrella organisation for over 100 organisations and individuals based in England.
• Oxfam’s ReGender Project – Working with local communities, voluntary organisations and local and national government to ensure that both women’s and men’s needs are taken into account in regeneration schemes.
• The Fawcett Society – ‘The Fawcett Society’ vision is of a society in which women and men enjoy equality at work, at home and in public life. They campaign on women’s representation in politics and public life.
• The Global Fund for Women – An international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice.
• The Women's Library – The Women’s Library exists to document and explore women’s lives in Britain in the past, the present and the future and houses the most extensive resource for women’s history in the UK.
• The Women's National Commission – The official, independent, advisory body giving the views of women to the Government. It is the only organisation of this kind in the UK. It aims to ensure that women’s views are taken into account by the Government and are heard in public debate.
• WomenAction – A global information, communication and media network that enables NGOs to actively engage in the Beijing+5 review process with the long term goal of women’s empowerment, with a special focus on women and media.