Will you be part of Local Democracy Week 2021?
Could you organise an online event or safe activity in your local place during October 2021 that helps people to get involved in our local democracy Or do you have a story to share?
Growing Great Places crowdfunding workshops, summer 2021
Spacehive and Kirklees Council are running free online workshops where you can get advice and support to run a successful crowdfunding campaign.
Voting in the May 2021 elections
314,056 people in Kirklees are registered to vote in the local elections and West Yorkshire Mayoral election on Thursday 6th May 2021. Here’s everything you need to know…
Everyday democracy resources for schools (video)
We’ve created everyday democracy resources for schools in Kirklees to make sure that our young citizens can have a voice in the things that affect their everyday lives.
Kirklees Youth Council – our recent activity (video)
Kirklees Youth Council made this video to share some of the great things they have been doing in 2020, the first year of our Democracy Friendly Schools programme.
Growing Great Places – community crowdfunding drop-ins, March 2021
Got a great idea for making your local place even better? Want to connect with others who can help make it happen and raise funds to get your idea off the ground? Come along to one of our drop-in sessions in March to find out how to run a successful crowdfunding campaign.
Online workshops: How can more people come together to make local places better?
Do you feel able to make your local place better? Please come to our online workshops to share your experiences, listen to other people’s stories and make new connections. Together we’ll improve our understanding of how we can measure people’s confidence in their own ability to change things in our local places – to have influence as active citizens.
Local democracy and life beyond lockdown – hearing from young citizens at NCS
In our final activity for Local Democracy Week 2020, we talked with young people aged 15 to 17 about life during lockdown and beyond, about things they’d like to change in their local place, getting to know our councillors and planning social action.
Meet your councillors – sessions for local schools
We’re offering a safe and flexible one hour session that will help children and young people to learn what local councillors do, share how they feel about life in their local place right now, and explore opportunities to work together with councillors on community projects.
Meet your councillors at Hillside Primary
Our thanks to the staff and pupils of Hillside Primary School and to the Newsome ward councillors, who were the first to try out our new style “Meet your councillors” session in October as part of Local Democracy Week 2020.