Pledges From the Launch

As many of you will know, there was a great opportunity at the Citizen Power launch to make a pledge based on the following statement:

Help to shape the future of Peterborough. What will you do and where can you make a difference?

We had some wonderful pledges come out of this, which I will share with you here:

· Bring cultural arts to Peterborough e.g. African, to create
more of a mixed society.

· Get involved in street-based community activity

· Smile

· Community working for community

· Support and encourage children and young people, through schools and settings, to engage and
have an impact in their city.

· Ask the question about ‘’how can we find money for this but not for front line
staff?’’

· Help to set up more youth centres and clubs available to all backgrounds – get them off park
benches drinking!

· Work on an eco art café in city centre

· Liaise around digital media and sustainability

· I will keep in touch with this project’s progress online and try to use what I learn in my
community in London.

· Support people with poor mental health to have a say

· Look serious, make a difference

· Work with local arts organisations to get sculptures at the green wheel based on the
environment theme

· Negotiate with owners of Woolworths building to get a poem and art work on the blank brick
work

· Travelling theatre to make people aware of the green areas on their
doorstep

· Link communities at every opportunity to all strands of the project

· I work in neighbourhoods and new link can ensure seldom heard are included in solution
making. They can come with amazing new ideas

· See what we can do to engage local artists in our street events or a street
party

· I will think before I judge people

· To recognise that all aspects of Citizen Power impact on improving learning outcomes and to
ensure key teams are actively engaged

· Join the RSA

· Encourage friends and family to visit the city

· I’m going to stand up for Peterborough

· Link an artist with a mainstream council activity e.g. planning processes.

· Be more open

· To get a wider network of groups involved in my theatre project

· Offer space at the ICA for community
groups

· Continue to help in schools to get children to enjoy their education

· Connect network Peterborough in
development

· Creative community theatre all over the city

· Engage with other faith groups, business and education

· Get my neighbourhood council to be involved

· Try to make Rock in the Park an annual event

· Host art festivals

· Make it easier for up and coming artists to get art in the public eye

· Encourage better networking and communications between groups

· Schools communicate with each other more! – youth generations intermingle, less
competition between schools = better community

· Mobilise Peterborough. Become one
society

· Support Peterborough FM (a local community radio station)

· Encourage the communities I work with to bid for an artist

· Art gallery space for children’s art

· Help connect national companies with Peterborough

· To encourage the next generation

· Share ideas

· To have a voice for the arts in our city

· Digital inclusion – free I.T. training to – vulnerable, socially isolated, BME groups,
offenders/ex offenders.

· Involve local children in schools in the creation of a new show through
workshops

· Help ladies of Peterborough make friends through
friendship groups at the Peterborough Women’s Centre

· work with Travellers and New Arrivals – we need more understanding of
these groups in the curriculum agenda

A fantastic bunch of pledges I'm sure you'll agree!