‘Our Democracy Blog’

New Europeans UK (NEUK) supported three partner organisations – Shpresa Programme, Roma Support Group and Gargaar Somali Welfare Association – who provided outreach to Albanian, Roma and Somali European communities across London, respectively. These groups delivered in-person and online awareness-raising sessions with their communities using translated resources to assist.   NEUK also co-designed two extensive resources…

Partnership for Young London delivered its awareness-raising project aimed at care-experienced young Londoners. This included in-person youth engagement through face-to-face workshops, which provided information regarding voting system changes and voter registration. Furthermore, Partnership for Young London assessed the inclusion of democratic rights in each borough’s local offer to care-experienced young people, and information was shared…

Refugee Workers Cultural Association (RWCA) delivered an in-person awareness-raising project, primarily engaging with Turkish and Kurdish communities in Haringey. At these in-person events, RWCA shared information regarding the voting-system changes, and provided direct assistance in registering to vote and applying for accepted forms of photo ID. It also shared GLA assets on social media platforms,…

Southwark Travellers Action Group (STAG) delivered in-person awareness-raising to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Londoners, primarily, but not exclusively, in Southwark. As many community members are digitally excluded, STAG found in-person engagement more effective. Its in-person engagement included outreach at Traveller sites and other appropriate venues; and one-to-one meetings where it would provide direct support to…

The Politics Project engaged young Londoners in schools and youth centres in 27 London boroughs. During these sessions, they shared political literacy information regarding the voting-system changes; signposted young people to the voter-registration process; and facilitated activities designed to interest a younger audience. It shared resources with schools in a digestible format, so that the…

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 Greater London Authority (GLA) and Shout Out UK have launched the fifth annual London Voter Registration Week to help under-represented and under-registered Londoners access their right to vote Boroughs, civil society organisations and education institutions are supporting the campaign which is also raising awareness of photo Voter ID One in four Londoners (24 per…

Voting rights are changing. London is preparing. Are you ready? The Elections Act (2022) is changing the way we vote in London, especially with the introduction of mandatory photo voter identification. London already had one of the lowest voter registration rates across the UK and polling commissioned by the Greater London Authority (GLA)* showed that…

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…