Following our 'What Kind of Region Do We Want To Live In?' event in Manningham, Bradford in November 2015, the organising group have become the Same Skies network - working for a hopeful, fair, prosperous and inclusive regional democracy.

The network's priorities are:

• enabling 'unheard' voices to be heard as effectively as possible

• encouraging the democratisation of devolutionary processes towards self-determination

• identifying and supporting positive ideas for regional democracy.

• engaging with people across political parties and of none whilst also ensuring that the collective engages on its own terms and doesn't allow itself to become a tool of any one political party.

The founding members of the network are:

• Leila Taleb @leilastaleb

• Yoshiko Stokoe @notyosheeko]

• Ed Carlisle @edleed (of @t4pleeds)

• Alex Schafran @alexschafran]

• Andrew Wilson @hannahfestival]

• Ian Martin @ianeastleeds]

All founding members of the Same Skies network live and work in West Yorkshire

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