Citizens UK Annual Report 2024

We identify people with the appetite or potential to lead change and provide them with opportunities and support to become more powerful and effective. These people might be experiencing injustice themselves; they may be a community leader from a civic institution, or they might come from the public or private sector. Our contribution to their development may be about the growth of confidence and skills; offering them new experiences of public action and innovative partnerships; or broadening their self-interest to include additional issues and relationships.

We support institutions to grow and become more effective at making change together. Our primary purpose with this aim is to strengthen societal institutions to achieve a better balance of power between civil society, the market, and the state. Most of the institutions we work with are civic, for example schools and faith institutions, but we also engage with the private and public sectors to develop allies who can help deliver our mission.

We’re working together to make change on the issues that matter, from campaigning for zebra crossings on dangerous roads, to reforming the immigration system, to the Living Wage campaign. We’re shifting the balance of power, helping people come together across their differences, find common ground and win change.