In this theme we would like you to focus on:

• The role that the Community and Voluntary (CV) sector should play in facilitating Active Citizenship?

• What organisations can do to support and promote participation

• Any good practice examples or suggestions in your locality or from your experience where organisations are helping to engage active citizens

We would like to hear your views on active citizenship.

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Volunteering, Social inclusion and Active citizenship

Hi there! My name is Chiara and I work as the Placement Officer for Social Inclusion in Volunteering Ireland. Volunteering Ireland promotes high quality voluntary activity, by encouraging organisations, who involve volunteers, to adopt good policy and practice, and by acting as a link between such organisations and individuals who wish to undertake meaningful voluntary work. We are [...]

Early years and citizenship

The work carried out by myself on behalf of the BCCN, will lead to more active particpation from children in settings, leading to more active citizens later in life. We begin with the youngest children trying to help practitoners see children as separate individuals with rights and responsibilities. We use listening and learning as a reflective [...]

Active Citizenship

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What is Active Citizenship

Active citizenship is, I believe, a fine ideal. There are many wonderful opportunities for people to contribute as volunteers in society but community development can be a vicious nasty place. My experience is that bullying is the norm. If you disagree or try to express a different point of view to ‘the consensus’ (which is [...]

active citizenship

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