Participants must be 18 by the time of the general election, and so must be born before 7 May 1997.
Through the My Voice, My Vote programme, participants will:
- learn about democratic processes in their area
- understand how to campaign to improve lives in the community
- expand their networks
- design and deliver effective social action campaigns
- prepare to vote in their first general election in May 2015
The programme is running in Birmingham, Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent, Bedfordshire & Luton, and London.
More details on the Uprising website.
If you are old enough to be amazed by the idea of someone born in early 1997 voting, I can remember when I was a teenager.
We were round at the house of one of our number whose mother was a primary teacher and there was a pile of school reports there. We had a look at them (as you do) and could not believe she was teaching children who were born in the 1970s.
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We all have our moments like that. Ed Maxfield once asked me if I had been to Berlin before the Wall came down. It came down when I was 12. I was in turn shocked to discover fellow trainee teachers hadn't been partying on 1999-2000 New Year's Eve as they too had been twelve. Now I am teaching children who were born well after 2000 - and I'm in secondary!
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