Learning from Stop the Pipeline campaign

The Stop the Keystone pipeline campaign is one that may have passed many in the UK by but in the US its resulted in a huge victory for environmental campaigners. In brief, the campaign was looking to halt the construction of a pipeline that would transport tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada across the Midwest [...]

Charity meetings with Government Ministers

The release of details of thousands of meetings between government minister and lobbying groups has received lots of coverage in the press in the last few days.  Although the headlines have been on the number of meetings that ministers have had with business groups, there is also lots in the whole data that campaigners can [...]

Campaign Totals – A look at the departmental figures

I’ve received responses from all but 2 departments (Ministry of Deference and Ministry of Justice) that I approached, but what do the final totals tell us about the way that they’re responding to the actions that we’re sending them? 1. Real variation in numbers between department – I’m not surprised to see the Treasury come top of [...]

Campaign Totals – Department of Work and Pensions

The Department of Work and Pensions indiciated that it was unable to give detailed figures in response to my request. Total number of actions received between May 1st 2010 and May 1st 2011: approx 8,500 Number of letters: approx. 1,400Number of postcards: approx. 2,800Number of emails: approx. 4,300Breakdown by topic and organisation: The Department of Work and Pension was [...]

The last day of the NCVO Campaigning Effectiveness project

I’m sad to see the end of the NCVO Campaigning Effectiveness project (which has included the Forum for Change site) which closes today as the current funding streams that sustain it come to an end. While it’s perhaps inevitable in the context of reduced funding to the sector, it’s going to be missed, and it leaves a [...]