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Parliament Week Presentation
- 1. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org UK Parliament Week 14-20 November 2016 How your organisation can take part
- 2. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org What this session will cover • More about UK Parliament Week • How your organisation can take part • Top tips for your UK Parliament Week event or activity • UK Parliament Week ideas and partners speed dating session #YourParliament
- 3. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org About UK Parliament Week • UK Parliament Week is an annual event which aims to raise awareness of and encourage more engagement with Parliament across the UK • Each year partner organisations across the UK take part by holding events for the public, schools, their users and staff • We have toolkits on our website that you can use to help plan your event • Partners can receive free resources for the events and activities • Evaluated each year so that we can learn what works, what doesn’t and what we can improve #YourParliament
- 4. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org UK Parliament Week 2015 • 131 events across the UK, in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, most hosted by our partners • Lots of social media activity, including our hashtag • Positive press across the UK • Lots of MPs, schools, Girlguiding groups and libraries also took part #YourParliament
- 5. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org How your organisation can take part • Run an event or activity. These can include debates, discussions, exhibitions, talks, question and answer sessions, holding an information stand. • We have three types of activities for UK Parliament Week: Engage, Explore and Empower. #YourParliament
- 6. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org Engage #YourParliament Halton Young Person’s Question Time, CRMZ, Widnes
- 7. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org Engage #YourParliament MP Q&A University of Northumbria, Newcastle
- 8. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org Explore #YourParliament Democracy Street Exhibition Artist Jon Adams at the UK Parliament
- 9. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org Explore #YourParliament Bad, Bright, British Film Club, London and Birmingham
- 10. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org Empower #YourParliament Parliament and You British Deaf Association, London
- 11. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org Empower #YourParliament Inspiring the Sikh community in Birmingham to engage in local and national democracy Nishkam Centre, Birmingham
- 12. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org What’s next? • Sign up to our UK Parliament Week Partners’ newsletter • Check out our resources • Get in touch with the team • Plan your event and register by 30 September #YourParliament
- 13. www.parliament.uk/get-involved #GetParliament www.parliamentweek.org Top tips for taking part • Make sure your event or activity works for you and your audience • The more participation at events the better • Sign up your event as soon as you can • Make sure you use your “Official Partner” logo on your website and any printed materials • Make the most of our toolkits for planning and publicising your event • Link to us! #YourParliament
Editor's Notes
- Reach: 8000 people attended events; Social media: -490,000 Twitter Since then we have been doing some work, based on feedback from our partners, on our sign up process. We’ve made it one form rather than two. We have also changed our logo and will be rolling it out across our website next week.
- Doesn’t matter what the format of your event is, but it has to be about Parliament in some way:
- Question and answer session with local politicians Engage events are about asking questions, meeting politicians and helping audiences to think about how the UK Parliament affects them
- Question and answer session with local politicians
- Exhibition of work by artist, using digital artwork made up of street names that link to Parliament from across the UK Explore events are about finding out more about Parliament, or thinking about it in new and different ways
- Screening of a film about suffragettes
- Workshop with the British Deaf Association about how to engage with Parliament
- Event run by the Nishkam Centre in Birmingham for the Sikh Community about engaging with Parliament
- Question and