Posts by Dr Sharmin Shajahan, Deputy Director Voice 4 Change England

Voice4Change England’s YourVoteYourVoice project, supported by the Greater London Authority (GLA), was an impartial campaign which ran from August 2023-February 2024, to raise awareness about the changes to the way we vote, brought in by the Elections Act (2022). Our aim was to raise awareness about the accepted forms of photo Voter ID and to…

A vlog by the Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) Thanks to funding from the Greater London Authority’s Voter ID grants programme, which ran from August 2023- February 2024, RAD worked with deaf Londoners, sharing information about how to vote, registering, and the new Voter ID requirements. This was conducted in British Sign Language (BSL),…

The project “Your Vote, Your Voice”, delivered by Voice for Change England during phase one of the GLA Voter ID grants programme, raised awareness and increased understanding about the changes requiring photo identification to vote and encouraging under-registered and under-represented groups from Black and Minoritised Ethnic (BME) communities in London to register to vote and…

During phase one of the GLA Voter ID grants programme, the Romanian & Eastern European Hub (RoEE Hub) aimed to raise awareness and increase understanding among Londoners from under-registered and under-represented communities about the changes to their civic and democratic rights, specifically amongst Romanian, Romanian Roma and other Eastern European Londoners. RoEE Hub reached over…