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ChangeMakers
ChangeMakers is a project of CAP, currently running in Manchester, Bradford and Stockton-on-Tees. In each place, we are bringing together groups representing excluded communities, equipping and enabling them to have a say in decisions that affect them.
ChangeMakers develops the capacity and
skills of people from disadvantaged
communities across England. Using broad-based community organising and leadership traning, it enables people to
identify and meet their needs, so that they can participate more fully in
local regeneration processes, in the development of effective local and
national urban policy, and society in general.
We are establishing ChangeMakers organisations in Stockton-on-Tees, Bradford and Manchester.
Changemakers will allow local people to address issues not being tackled in other ways. These organisations will be large, diverse, disciplined, and led by ordinary local people who have been trained in community leadership. Changemakers represents an attempt to set direct, participatory forms of democratic activity alongside representative ones. The programme is responding to widespread apathy and cynicism about politics and citizen engagement. It is a way of enabling the poorest and most marginalised communities to have a voice at the table of power by claiming their own political spaces.
The ChangeMakers project in Manchester is already active, running training courses and identifying issues to campaign on. The ChangeMakers project in Stockton is growing out of our existing Thrive project.
The work in Bradford is still in the developmental stage.
You can find more information about all the ChangeMakers projects at the ChangeMakers website.
Watch our Empowered Voices video to see the difference ChangeMakers has already made for people in Manchester.
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