From: "Julia Fallon" <juliacfal...@gmail.com> Date: May 16, 2017 7:41 AM Subject: [mySociety-community] www.citizns.eu New service launched to help British expats participate in General Election 2017 To: "mysociety-community" <mysociety-commun...@mysociety.org> Cc:
Hi there, I want to tell you about a new website that uses my society data to help british expats connect with their representatives & take part in the General Election. As a British citizen living in the Netherlands I have been frustrated with feeling disconnected with elected MPs, those who represent values I share and those who care about the same issues that I do. Triggering Article 50 on 29th March didn’t just start the Brexit process, it also kicked started a personal project to help me, and my friends and their friends engage better with their elected representatives in the run up to the General Election, throughout the Brexit negotiation period and beyond. Working with a small team we have used data from mysociety (mapit) and the democracy club, and a few extra bits we have captured ourselves, and created an online resource <http://citizns.eu> to help British citizens living overseas connect with their representatives. At citizens.eu you can; - Use your UK postcode to find information about your constituency and the candidates standing in the General Election - Find information about getting your paperwork in order so that you can take part and vote in the General Election - Learn about all the ways you can take part - from voting, to sharing on social media to starting a conversation with your neighbour - Read a blog filled with opinion, useful information and inspiring articles written by British citizens living overseas We have an opportunity to help engage overseas voters and have a positive impact on the number of registered overseas voters. Thanks to a voter registration drive in 2016 the number of registered overseas voters grew by 144% from 2015. However that number is still incredibly low - from an estimated 5.5 million UK citizens living outside of the UK and possibly eligible to vote, only 263,903 were registered for the 2016 EU referendum. We're adding new information to the constituency pages each week - the referendum result published last week, this week we are matching that with how that constituency MP vote in the Brexit bill. We're really now looking for anyone who can help us reaching out to a wider audience, but you can also support us by; - Sharing our website <http://citizns.eu> with you registered members, mailing lists and on your website - Talking about our resources on your social media channels - Contributing a blog about data, elections, your story, why taking part is important ... send me your idea and we can see how it works - Tell us what else you would like to see published Thanks for taking the time to read to the end! Julia @citiznsEU <https://twitter.com/citiznsEU> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mysociety-community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mysociety-community+unsubscr...@mysociety.org. To post to this group, send email to mysociety-commun...@mysociety.org. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/ mysociety.org/group/mysociety-community/. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/ mysociety.org/d/msgid/mysociety-community/8c063061- 6f6f-4296-8bc1-4d541616ea0b%40mysociety.org <https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/d/msgid/mysociety-community/8c063061-6f6f-4296-8bc1-4d541616ea0b%40mysociety.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/d/optout. ―― View topic http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/15G3BF5oSweKAmIrI8lrw6 Leave group mailto:newswire@groups.dowire.org?subject=Unsubscribe
