UK Citizen Network

Citizen Network is a movement to advance equality and justice around the world. We started Citizen Network because we need to celebrate human diversity and stand up for human equality. We need to work together and to behave like citizens, reject division and create more inclusive communities that welcome people with all their different gifts. Development The idea of Citizen Network was first developed by the Centre for Welfare Reform in 2015 in Sheffield, England. At the Claiming Full Citizenship: Self Determination, Personalization and Individualized Funding 2015 International Conference in Vancouver, Canada which was hosted by what is now the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship these initial ideas turned into a commitment to create an active network to support learning and and cooperative action on equal citizenship. Planning for Citizen Network continued in partnership with people and organisations in Finland and Australia then on 17th November 2016, Citizen Network was officially launched at the Manawanui International Conference in Auckland, New Zealand. We encouraged people and individuals to join the network for free and we worked with organisations around the world to support people to take on coordination roles in order to advance Citizen Network's work. There are currently over 800 individual members and over 200 group members.