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Sophie Conquest
5 hours ago6 min read
Working-class young people's submission features in the House of Lords report on High Streets
RECLAIM Young People have contributed to and featured in the House of Lords Select Committee report on High Streets: Life Beyond Retail....
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Binish Syed Qureshi
Feb 55 min read
‘Stick Together, Stand Together’: a documentary about strength, solidarity, inspiration and change
I’m Binish, and over two years, I created ‘ Stick Together, Stand Together ’, a documentary exploring the lack of representation of...
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Dean Dallman
Oct 14, 20244 min read
RECLAIM launches new 4-year organisational strategy to build a fair and just world for working-class young people
RECLAIM is launching a new four-year organisational strategy , evolving our current approach and working towards our vision to create a...
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Anisa Juma
Jul 25, 20243 min read
Why let periods flow?
Anisa Juma When I was at school, ‘period’ was an unforgivable word. A word that was a synonym of ‘the curse’ and a curse was how I and...
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Louise Toole
Mar 4, 20247 min read
Yvette Taylor's take on queer, class and intersections of identity, inequality and community.
Yvette Taylor is Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde, and previously worked at Newcastle University (2005-2011) and...
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India Thorogood
Dec 11, 20236 min read
The campaigns sector needs more working-class people. Here’s how to join it and change the country.
There are many reasons to be angry right now. Sky high prices on supermarket shelves. Dodgy landlords. School exclusions. But those...
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Becky Bainbridge
Nov 14, 20233 min read
Closing the class pay gap.
From today, staff in organisations across the country are giving their time for free for the rest of the year. They’ve not been asked to,...
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Issy Martini
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Shaping Tomorrow’s Homes: Why youth engagement is key to leading change.
The Grenfell tragedy in June 2017 exposed the very worst of what could happen when residents are ignored and sidelined in their homes. In...
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Katie Shaw
Jun 22, 20233 min read
Just put a plaster over it: the ongoing pressure small charities face.
It’s Small Charities Week this week, a week that aims to celebrate and raise awareness of the work that small charities deliver and the...
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Becky Bainbridge
Mar 1, 20234 min read
The day Educational inequality became policy
From 2010, David Cameron’s coalition government and the Department for Education, headed by Michael Gove, embedded their “one nation”...
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dabbott10
Dec 21, 20222 min read
When RECLAIM went to Westminster by Anisa & Binish
On Tuesday 29th November, we were invited to an oracy event, where we went to visit the House of Commons and House of Lords. Our...
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dabbott10
Nov 15, 20224 min read
Do accents matter?
How do you say bath? Short A or long A? Bath or barth? And what do you call a bread roll? A barm? A bap? A cob? How we talk is a unique...
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Becky Bainbridge
Sep 21, 20225 min read
Working-class people missing or hidden from think tanks and charities, research finds
94% of working class people in think tanks and charities say there is a class diversity problem 59% don’t talk about their background at...
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Becky Bainbridge
Sep 11, 20194 min read
Working-class communities need a much deeper response to educational inequality.
Within the last 24-hours the UK government has announced that they will provide free use of laptops and tablets to selected groups of...
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