Your vote matters
Funded by Welsh Government’s Democratic Engagement Grant, Your Vote Matters is a year-long pilot project to encourage political awareness amongst people with Learning Disabilities.
The project aims to educate participants about democracy, local and national government elections, and to boost voter registration and turnout amongst people with Learning Disabilities.
About the project
Your Vote Matters will encourage political awareness and engagement amongst the people we support with a series of fun and informative workshops, day trips and activities about government, elections and the voting process.
These sessions will be held in-person and online on our Insight app to reach as many people as possible. Sessions will be co-produced with the people we support. The project will also support participants in creating Easy Read resources and videos to make sure that as many people as possible understand the importance of voting and how to register.
Please contact our Skills and Wellbeing team for more information.
Project activities
Your Vote Matters will deliver 10 workshops covering the following topics:
- What is democracy?
- What does it mean to vote?
- Why should I care?
- The UK and Welsh Governments explained
- Local government explained
- Introducing the main political parties
- The importance of making your own decisions
- Understanding your voting rights
- Registering to vote
- How to vote
Throughout the project, we will organise one-off interactive sessions to bring these topics to life. Project participants will get the chance to visit important government buildings, meet local politicians and take part in their very own mock elections to name just a few!
Project funders
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