Talk about Local - Citizens University

Talk About Local and Citizens University

Talk About Local Talk about local was born from the real world experience of helping make a neighbourhood better. They are working in partnership with UK online centres embedded in the heart of deprived or isolated areas to help people find a voice online. Our work stretches from isolated villages in fenland to urban communities regenerating themselves to citizens building bridging social capital.

Citizens University believe that every community benefits when it contains the skills needed to deal with everyday crises and pressures. We need professionals to deal with the most difficult problems. But widely spread skills can play a hugely important role in helping communities to be healthy, safe and happy.

The Citizens University has been developed as a novel way of providing citizens with the skills and confidence they need to help others. Its aim is to reduce unnecessary deaths, reduce the risk of violence, and strengthen communities’ capacity to act for themselves.

The Citizens’ University offers a opportunity to scale and continue to innovate in learning delivery. They love the concept of pop up shops for learning– we have helped people in sessions in cinema foyers, in pubs, basements, in parks, a scout hut and even McDonalds.

For other skills…developing a hyperlocal website, the Citizens’ University will provide help to existing small scale providers supporting them in formalising their training, reaching a much bigger audience and creating a network of providers across the country.