Organizing for a Change Thursday January 2016 : Final Reminder - Please book your place.. please forward this email

Organizing for a Change -

 Can we organize together to make a difference in Preston and Lancashire?

A Presentation by Citizens UK

 

Executive Director, Neil Jameson CBE, and Citizens UK Chairman Rev. Paul Regan

4.30pm to 6.30pm
University of Central Lancashire - Greenbank Lecture Theatre. Greenbank Building. Preston, Lancashire PR1 2HE

 

We are asking everyone intending to attend to book your free place online by Thursday morning. Places are limited and people with tickets will be given priority. Book your ticket via this link

 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/organising-for-a-change-tickets-20557727717

 

This is a joint event co-sponsored by UCLAN,s Centre for Volunteering and Community Leadership, PCC's Social Forum, The VCFS Forum; Preston Faith Forum; Preston Community Network, Preston Christian Action Network.

 

All will be welcome. Come along and be inspired and explore how together we might work to transform Preston for good.

 

MORE INFORMATION

Citizens UK and especially it's branch London Citizens is the largest and most effective broad based citizen's organizing movement in the country. In recent years it has mobilised to campaign successfully for the Living Wage, for a cap on interest rates from payday lenders, local jobs for local people, better quality social care, the resettlement and integration of refugees and many local causes. Bringing together faith groups, trade unions, schools and community organisations in large assemblies and smaller actions it builds power to negotiate with employers, developers, service providers and local and national government. For more information see
http://www.citizensuk.org/

Over the past few months some of us have been exploring whether such a movement could be established in Preston and Lancashire. We have invited their Executive Director, Neil Jameson and Citizens UK Chairman Paul Regan to come to Preston to speak at an open meeting where we can explore together what might be involved. Both Neil and Paul have over 20 years of experience of community organizing in London and are recognized as excellent speakers and the leading exponents of community organizing in the UK.