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ABOUT RECLAIM
RECLAIM is a youth leadership and social change organisation. We are a small but bold charity, using our experience and platform to support and amplify the voices of working class young people.
We exist to create a society in which being from a working-class background no longer presents barriers to achievement, success, or influence.
Our long term goal is to create a Britain where those from working-class backgrounds are proud of – and not held back by – our roots. We want working-class people to be represented in places where decisions are made about their lives and to be recognised for their talent, strength, and diversity. We want to see working-class young people at the heart of this, to build a fair and just world.
Not familiar with the term working-class?
Working-class means different things to different people but for us at RECLAIM being working-class is characterised by a few key factors:
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You're on, or grew up on, a low income with limited access to wealth.
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You don't have many family connections to people with well paid, professional or powerful jobs.
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You find it harder to 'fit in' in middle-class spaces, interests and conversations.
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You're proud of your background and want people to see it as a strength, not a weakness
While working-class people have many of these things in common, we're a diverse bunch too. Working-class people are white, black and brown, LGBT+, disabled, recent migrants or refugees or from families who can trace their roots in the UK back generations, of various religions or none, women, men and non-binary. We're many things but we share the experience of growing up facing those four factors above.
