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Tips for social action projects, part 2: awareness campaigns
In the second part of this series, our Giving Nation team shares tips for running school-based awareness campaigns. Awareness campaigns are all about attracting attention and spreading the word about...
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Tips for effective social action projects, part 3: fundraising campaigns
Fundraising projects can be the trickiest to get right: it’s not all marathons and cake sales! You have to engage people, educate them and get them to hand over their hard-earned cash, all at the same...
View ArticleTips for social action projects, part 4: Volunteering
Setting up a volunteering project can be one of the most rewarding ways to make a real difference. If you have decided to give the gift of your time to help others, this set of tips – the fourth in our...
View ArticleTips for social action projects, part 5: Social enterprise
A social enterprise is a business with a heart. Use your profits from your socially-motivated product or service to expand your reach and help more of your community. In the fifth and final part of...
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Workplace skills: how we can help your teaching, in one lovely picture
As citizenship education comprises many elements, it can be hard to explain how our various programmes support them. Education - our contribution (click to enlarge). Image: drawnalism.com. Aspects of...
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Can’t decide who to vote for? Let the internet help
It can be hard to navigate party propaganda to see what they’re really offering. This is where online vote-matching tools can help. Polling station (way in) by Paul Albertella The UK general election...
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Post-election limbo? Discuss it with your students
It’s the day before the election – all the indications are that there will be no clear winner. We may well witness an unseemly period of negotiation on Friday and beyond. This could be perplexing for...
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Can singing teach citizenship?
Today is International Day of Friendship, so I could hardly have picked a more appropriate time to open my review copy of a book of songs for spiritual, moral, social and cultural learning. Children...
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Tax Facts: free facts, about tax, to prepare your students for life after school
Tax is one of those subjects that has rarely been taught in schools and yet it’s an area that many young people say they want to understand more about. A lack of knowledge and understanding worries...
View ArticleReferendum blues? Spark refreshing debate in school in these final days of...
The EU referendum debate is at fever pitch. Campaigners are trying to persuade us one way or the other, appealing to our sensitivities around controversial issues such as immigration, economics and...
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