The Global Student Forum (GSF) exists to help sixteen to nineteen year old school students, of all faiths and none, to think carefully about the spiritual and moral issues underlying global citizenship, and to continue helping others to do the same throughout their lifelong learning.

The GSF holds an annual National Sixth Form Conference each summer which invites students from different faiths and backgrounds from schools across the country to participate in a day of interactive workshops on an issue of global citizenship. The first conference was held in 2005 on the Make Poverty History campaign, in partnership with Christian Aid and World Vision, and saw over 1,800 students converge on Westminster in London. The event was a fantastic success and through the talks, workshops and seminars participants learnt much about the key issues of trade, debt and aid.

The primary purpose behind the event is to train participants to become peer educators in their schools, and at the conference students are equipped with resources and materials to help them achieve this aim. In this way the conference has a much more significant indirect impact of raising awareness of global issues in schools across the UK. The 2006 conference will be held in July on the Stop AIDS campaign.

Project type

• Interfaith

Region

• National