Campaign Totals – Department of Communities and Local Government

Total number of actions received between May 1st 2010 and May 1st 2011: 6,670 Number of letters: 4,196 Number of postcards: 1,786 Number of emails: 688 Biggest campaign: Planning application 10/000032/LM (Waste plant application in Hartlebury, near Kidderminster) – 2,121 actions Breakdown by topic and organisation: To view the breakdown spreadsheet in google docs click here. Information taken from Freedom [...]

Campaign Totals – Department for Business Innovation and Skills

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) have provided information about the actions that they’ve received in the last 12 months in a slightly different format. Total number of actions received between May 1st 2010 and May 1st 2011: 4,136 Ministerial Correspondence consists of MPs’ letters to Ministers on behalf of their constituents or [...]

May the Force be with Greenpeace

Greenpeace have launched a fantastic new campaign today (Tuesday) - ‘Volkswagen. The Dark Side’ targeting car manufacture VW to ‘turn away from the Dark Side and give our planet a chance’. It’s been going less than 12 hours, but already they’ve had over 38,000 people send a message to VW bosses, over 10,000 likes on their [...]

Five for Friday 24th June….

It’s Friday, so here are five great articles I’ve read in the last few weeks that are worth reading in your lunch break….. 1. Research from the US suggested that ‘LinkedIn Is An Untapped Treasure Trove For Political Campaigns‘ because it draws older, more educated citizens–voters who are far more reliable when it come to casting [...]

Campaigns Totals – DFID breakdown by action

DFID have provided more information about the actions that they’ve recieved in the last 12 months. Total number of actions received between May 1st 2010 and May 1st 2011: 142,636 Breakdown by topic and organisation: View the spreadsheet in google docs here. Information taken from Freedom of Information request returned on 15 June 2011 and has been [...]