I'm a Councillor, Get me out of Here! - local democracy, citizenship and young people

I'm a Councillor is an online event that gets young people and councillors talking and gives young people a voice. And taking part is fun!

This film is a short introduction to the event, to give you a feel for what it's like. It shows young people in Guildford in 2008 taking part in the event, plus a councillor, teacher and council staff, all explaining why they liked it.

If you want to find out more go to www.bigvote.org.uk, or contact sophia@bigvote.org.uk.

Filmed by Catherine Seymour and Mark Barrs, editted by Katie Barlow.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• IAC
• youth engagement
• I'm a Councillor
• PSHE
• youth participation
• PSE
• Learning for Life
• citizenship
• local democracy
• local democracy week
• Local council
• teaching resources
• democracy

[Gallomanor]

BTW Ari, we also had an international section in the last event, so that UK students could find out a bit more about the rest of the world.

You can see that section if you enter the I'm a Councillor site (click 'guest access') and pick 'international' from the drop down menu at top right. We did have a US participant - Rep. David Bly from Minnesota.

[Gallomanor]

Hi Ari,

I'm sure there are a variety of projects elsewhere but I don't know of anything hat has been done on the scale of IAC.

[ariwriter]

Commenting from the States, this is awesome stuff! Do you know of similar programs around the world?

[VieveQ]

What a great idea - wonderful to see young people interested and engaging in local democracy.

[elvisisamonkey]

This is great, I'm not sure I even knew what a Councillor was when I was at school, great little video.

[fingersmalone30000]

wow... its amazing what kids have access to these days... nothing like this when i was at school