What are the 10 best campaign films?

Can you help me put together a list of the top 10 campaign films?  Here are a few more brilliant campaign/advocacy films from the last few months that I think could be worthy of inclusion in any list of ‘top advocacy films’. Do you agree? What else would you add? These films supplement my suggestions in [...]

Review: Page One – Inside the New York Times

A new documentary raises some questions about the challenges that newspapers are facing in the UK and the impacts that could have on our use of the media in campaigning. We don’t have a UK equivalent to The New York Times, the paper of record in the US, but even so Page One – Inside [...]

The key ingredients for a good campaign action….

Getting the ‘target’ and ‘ask’ right in your action is fundamentally important if you want to have a successful campaign, so here are some thoughts about what should go into a ‘good’ action. It’s not often that cry out in frustration at a campaign action but I did this week when a colleague forwarded me [...]

Post in The Guardian on making use of the Freedom of Information Act

Do have a look at my first contribution to The Guardian Voluntary Sector Network blog on how charities can make use of Freedom of Information Act.

Using the Law in Campaigning – are we missing an opportunity?

Ask a campaigner about the intricacies of Parliament, and the likelihood is that they’ll speak at length about the role the APPGs, PQs and EDMs can play in campaigning. But move the topic of conversation to the role of the Law Courts in campaigning and the conversation is likely to be much shorter! Despite the [...]