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About LCN
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• The Lincolnshire Citizenship Network was established in 2001 with the aim of enabling citizens to take an active, reflective and critical role in their communities. We aspire to promote social inclusion by improving citizenship competences in relevant organisations and communities in Lincolnshire. The network was a result of an action research project undertaken by the Community Operational Research Unit (CORU) at the University of Lincoln.
• The Lincolnshire Citizenship Network encourages reflective practice at the individual, group and community levels in order to build community capacity - using the principles of self-reflection, self-regulation and self-organisation. These principles are implemented through constructed conversations in workshops, seminars and short courses. These are community learning opportunities to develop citizenship networking activities across the region aimed at building the public domain.
• In 2004 the Lincolnshire Citizenship Network was recognised by the Home Office’s Civil Renewal Unit as one of seven hubs in the country to work in the programme Active Learning for Active Citizenship (ALAC), one of the cornerstones of the Together We Can cross-government action plan.Today these hubs are working under the umbrella of the Local Democracy Directorate of the new Department of State for Communities and Local Government.
• In 2006 DEFRA's Rural Community Programme (RSCP) and Lincolnshire Enterprise/EMDA agreed to fund the project Active Learning for Active Citizenship in Lincolnshire for the next two years. The Lincolnshire Citizenship Network is carrying out a countywide project to produce a guide of best learning practices for active citizenship.
• ALAC’s work is enabling adult citizenship learning at local and national levels. Nationally, Take Part: Active Learning for Active Citizenship has been set up to implement the hubs’ learning experiences. A government White Paper was published in autumn 2006 to reinforce these findings and set up future policy. The Lincolnshire Citizenship Network is playing a significant role towards implementing Take Part in the region.
More about Take Part
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