Bedford Mayoral Citizens Assembly
Start: Tuesday, April 25, 2023• 7:30 PM
End: Tuesday, April 25, 2023• 9:00 PM
Mayoral Assembly,
April 25, 2023, St Paul’s Church, Bedford
Housing, homelessness and the Real Living Wage for care workers
Do you care about housing and homelessness and paying a Real Living Wage to care workers?
Come together as a community to show the candidates for Mayor that Bedford cares about these issues.
We will be asking each candidate if they will work with us to shape a homelessness policy which protects the most vulnerable, and to campaign for a Real Living Wage for careworkers and other under-valued workers in our area -for more on this, see the Real Living Wage foundation? https://www.livingwage.org.uk
Attending will be local organisations and member communities deeply rooted Bedford including schools, universities, churches, mosques, synagogues, parent groups, health trusts, charities and unions, are important civic institutions which connect every day to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: Get involved!
CitizensUK
Through community organising, we enable communities and local leaders to develop their voice and come together with the power and strategy to make real change.
The work leads to hundreds of neighbourhood improvements - from zebra crossings outside primary schools to reopening renovated public toilets in cemeteries.
Our work has led to some of the biggest campaign impacts in the UK, such as the Living Wage with its £1.8 billion of wages won for low-paid workers, or successful campaigns to persuade the Government to stop exploitative lending by capping the cost of credit; or introducing a law to prevent the detention of children for immigration purposes.
