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CiviAct

CiviAct is a coalition of community-led organisations set up to respond to the enduring social, economic and justice inequalities experienced by minoritised children and young people. Our collective experiences of the harms of inequality highlight the urgency for radically different and transformative approaches undertaken by organisations accountable to communities, on their own terms. We recognise the talent, creativity and strengths of young people and their capacity to define the future. Together we convene spaces that support young people to transcend obstacles, resist injustice and challenge the status quo. CiviAct represents our collaborative efforts to uphold our duty to defend the civil rights of our communities and to promote opportunity and justice for all those within them (CiviAct Statement of Intent, 2021)

Our Aims

• Empower and support young people to become future leaders in community-led civic action

• Enhance the representation of excluded and minoritized groups within local and regional decision making

• Understand and support youth and community-led responses to the wide ranging impacts of Covid-19, particularly for those disproportionality effected

• Develop the sustainability and infrastructure of youth and community-led organisations

• Reimagine and create new and transferable models of community-led university partnership