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19 January 2009


CSJ AWARDS 2009
Application Deadline 17 March 2009
Awards Ceremony 1 July 2009

Applications for the CSJ Awards 2009 are now open. Are you tackling local poverty and giving people a second chance in life? If so apply to win from a prize pot of £50,000. Know a group? Encourage them to apply!

This is the fifth year of the CSJ Awards. We've been able to give over £150,000 to more than 25 organisations each tackling unique challenge in innovative ways.

"The Awards is a real highlight of the year," says Philippa Stroud, CSJ Executive Director, "The event is a fantastic opportunity to show policy makers that there are armies of compassion across the UK turning people's lives around, giving communities a second chance."

The Awards attracts an audience of senior policy makers and politicians which to date have included David Blunkett, John Reid, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Vince Cable and Sir Menzies Campbell amongst others.

To apply descibe in 500 words or less how your organisation makes an exceptional contribution to tackling poverty and turning lives around to awards@centreforsocialjustice.org.uk

More details are available at www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/awards

If you know of a group who you think should apply, please forward this email!

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DR SAMANTHA CALLAN AT THE FABIAN NEW YEAR CONFERENCE, 18 January 2009
Dr Samantha Callan spoke at the weekend at the Fabian Society's New Year Conference. In a session titled "Society Isn't Broken: the politics of responsibility?" Samantha joined panelists from the Guardian, the Observer, the Fabian Society and Labour Minister David Lammy MP. The Fabian Conference, with keynote speakers Ed Milliband MP and Lord Mandleson, was billed as "a sharp challenge to the political Right, not least over claims about the 'broken society'." Samantha presented statistics that measure the extent of breakdown and put forward the challenge to support and strengthen healthy families as the first defence against further breakdown. See Fabian Society Website

 

 

 PATRICK MERCER MP TAKES UP THE INNER CITY CHALLENGE
Patrick Mercer OBE MP will be joining Flintshire charity Save the Family for a one week in March. The Newark MP will take up an Inner City Challenge placement that pits an MP into Britian's most damaged communties and vulnerable people groups in order to see the effective work of small poverty fighting organisations. Save the Family have helped mend thousands of families over 30 years saving hundreds of children from life in the care system.
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PHILIPPA STROUD, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ON BBC's NEWSNIGHT
Philippa Stroud spoke out on the state of the care system on Newsnight on 5 December 2008 in light of the Baby P case. The CSJ Executive Director drew on the "Couldn't Care Less" report which highlighted the need to transform the life outcomes of young people who go through the care system.

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