How great research reports can help a campaign

Some of the wonderful policy colleagues I work alongside are going to be spending time today considering what makes a good research report. Which has got me thinking about how a great policy report can really help a campaign. Clearly, the general public aren’t the primary audience for a policy report. They’re normally written to [...]

What we can learn from the Robin Hood Tax campaign

The Robin Hood Tax campaign has used a range of new and innovative tactics that other campaign coalitions could learn from.  I suspect that you’ll be hearing a lot about the Robin Hood Tax in the coming week. The campaign has a great opportunity to succeed when G20 leaders meeting in France at the start [...]

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 [...]

Great campaigning resources

Looks like it’s a day for lists of useful guides on campaigning. Firstly I came across this list that Mark Parker, a campaign organiser in Southwark  has put together of books to read on activism on his Southwark Organising blog. Secondly, it’s the last day of  The Right Ethos resource tweeting marathon! For the last month they’ve been [...]

Four exciting things happening in campaigning

I spent some time with some colleagues last week talking about future trends in campaigning. As part of it, I was asked to share the four things most exciting things happening in campaigning at the moment. Here’s my list, what would you include? Change.org – Combining e-activism and crowd sourcing, change.org seems to have hit [...]