SCT has three core programmes, the first focused on creating a national network of local Speakers' Corner projects in the UK, the second on undertaking initiatives overseas and the third on developing educational resources designed to encourage and enable people to express their ideas and opinions in public. More
SCT has formed a number of partnerships with major organisations which enable it to pursue projects which it could not undertake alone. It has, for example, worked with the Southbank Centre on the production of Speaking Out, a download introducing the basic skills required for confident speaking in public, and with Central St Martins College of Art and Design on the creation of prototype Speakers’ Corners.More
Youth Amplified is free to use and features videos, animations and downloadable guides for teachers and youth workers designed to help 11-18 year-olds develop effective speaking and listening skills and confidence in using them.
The website is the outcome of a nine month project by SCT and the University of Leeds supported by the BAFTA-winning digital design agency Bold Creative and funded buy the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. You can access Youth Amplified here.
Peter Bradley Steps Down as SCT Director
After ten years in the role, SCT’s co-founder Peter Bradley has stepped down as its director. He is succeeded by Bryn Harris who has served as SCT’s new projects director for the past three years. In his farewell message to SCT’s supporters, Peter wrote:
“I wanted to thank you for your support for the work we do and in many cases for the partnership and collaboration without which many of our projects and initiatives would not have been possible. I’m very proud of what we have achieved together.
“SCT’s mission – to promote, freedom of expression, public debate and active citizenship – is now even more important than it was when we started out a decade ago. We urgently need to restore the humanising and enriching value of face-to-face engagement between citizens. Even more urgently, we have to find a way of fulfilling the internet’s enormous potential as a forum for the kind of civil and constructive debate which underpins the democratic process.
“These are challenges which await our new director, Bryn Harris. He is a person of ideas and energy and ideally qualified to take SCT into its second decade.”
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