Name of the social innovation: Bite The Ballot
Founder: Michael Sani
Location: United Kingdom
Project summary
Bite The
Ballot (BTB) was founded in 2010 and is a party-neutral movement on a mission
to empower young people. They want to inspire a change in the way democracy is
done in the UK. Moreover they want to make their
decision-making processes more engaging and more accessible so that everyone's
able to make informed decisions. BTB isn't joined
with any political party however they want everyone to work at making
'politics' more representative and more inclusive. Their goal for 2016
is extend their programme of activity and introduce a new Change
maker Curriculum that
engages, empowers and enables hundreds of thousands of 16-25 year olds to
become active change makers. BTB have won a couple
of awards like Big Issue Invest CSV 2015 challenge (winner), The Drum
Online Media Awards 2015: 'Best use of social media' (finalist), Broadcast Digital Awards 2015: 'Best multi-platform project'
(finalist) and EU Charlemagne Youth Prize 2014 (UK winner)
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