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UpRising Community Campaign Event

February 12, 2010 – 4:58 pm

 
The UpRising leadership programme will be hosting a Community Campaign Event on Saturday 27 February for 18-25 year olds to find out more about UpRising and how to get involved. 
Come and meet current UpRising participants and learn about their community campaigns. The event is a chance to get creative, share your ideas and find solutions to problems you see [...]

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Welcome for Speaker’s Conference backing of youth and community citizenship engagement programmes

January 11, 2010 – 7:36 pm

The UpRising leadership programme has welcomed the backing by the Speaker’s Conference of youth and community citizenship engagement programmes.
The Speaker’s Conference is a committee of MPs that has been investigating how Parliament can be made more representative. In their final report today (11 January 2010) the Conference highlighted the importance of youth and citizenship programmes that directly focus [...]

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Cabinet Minister reports back to UpRisers on Copenhagen Conference

January 11, 2010 – 7:35 pm

Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, reported back on the Copenhagen Climate Change conference at an event attended by UpRisers.   
On Monday 21 December 2009 a group of UpRisers attended the event at the QE2 Conference Centre, Westminster. Along with other members of the audience, they also had the opportunity to hear [...]

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Registration now open for UpRising 2010-11

January 7, 2010 – 12:08 pm

Registration to take part in the 2010-11 UpRising programme is now open. Registering is the first stage of getting a place on UpRising.
It is quick and easy to register by clicking here.

This is great opportunity for 19-25 year olds from East London who want to learn important public leadership skills, make new friends, take part in exciting events and serve the [...]

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Leadership opportunities learning session

January 4, 2010 – 4:10 pm

UpRisers took part in a learning session on 3 December 2009 to examine a range of different opportunities for public leadership and service.
During a series of roundtable discussions, UpRisers questioned a number of public leaders about their roles. Cllr Stephanie Eaton, Leader of the Liberal Democrat group of Tower Hamlets councillors spoke about her work [...]

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