Marshalling the Rights of New Citizens
This project consisted ten workshops delivered between
October 2004 and April 2005, funded by the Electoral Commission.
Marshalling the Voting Rights of New Citizens' was designed
to enhance the participation of new citizens and settled migrants
in the electoral process. The two-hour workshop on voting rights was
delivered at adult education centres offering English as a Second
Language (ESOL) classes to people in the target group.
Workshops were located in the boroughs of Waltham Forest, Westminster,
Lambeth and Kensington and Chelsea.
Marshalling the Voting Rights of New Citizens was a highly innovative
project that forms part of an extended education and support programme
proposed by the New Citizens Voice organisation.
New Citizens Voice developed a dynamic and interactive syllabus,
training materials and highly effective approach to encourage the
participation of new citizens in the British electoral process.
The strategy of inserting the workshops into existing ESOL training
programmes provided by adult education centres was highly effective
in reaching the target audience.
Given the limited resources available the project performed extremely
well: delivering 10 workshops and training 281 beneficiaries.
Properly resourced, the project is in excellent position to build
on established contacts and be successfully rolled out to other London
boroughs.
Download the full Workshop Report (MS Word Document).
To see more photos from the workshop, click here.