Margaret Thatcher
I’m writing this just 3 hours after hearing that she died this morning. It’s strange feeling of trying to assemble all my thoughts about the death of Margaret Thatcher. When I was 7, I remember putting my hand up in class and answering a question about her becoming the first woman leader of the Conservatives. […]
The Hardest Jobs To Get In Campaigning
Last month, we surveyed potential candidates who are working in the campaigning sector – you may well have taken part in it. We asked them which area of work their organisation focussed on and what type of organisation would they ideally like to work for next. Most popular type of organisation for their next role: 1 […]
Alison Goldsworthy
Head of Supporter Strategy and Engagement at Which? Apart from your current organisation which other organisations that campaign do you admire? I think WaterAid are brilliant. The emails they send out to their supporter network are always eye-catching and I’d be surprised if they don’t get a high action rate. I also really admire how […]
1992 – Right Said Fred, Eldorado, Robert Halfon and Me
Robert Halfon is complaining about good and healthy organisations again – it’s like going back 20 years for me. Back then I was at the University of Exeter with Robert. I was Deputy President of the student union, he was Chair of the Conservative Association. His focus was then the supposed closed shop of student unions. […]
Lucy Tweedie
Whilst Director at Advocacy Associates Apart from your current organisation which other organisations that campaign do you admire? Friends of the Earth – for their wide public reach and outsider advocacy stance Oxfam – for their creative public presence and strong policy and lobbying Wateraid – for their impressive evidence-based advocacy work Who is […]
Letter published in Third Sector 26th March 2012
It is disappointing to say the least to read that of the 30 staff who are at most risk of redundancy at Mencap are those in the campaigns, policy and communications teams. If this happens, it looks like “the voice of learning disability” will become a little softer for a while. This proposal would be heading in the opposite direction of […]
Obstacles to effective campaigning
Much of my writing and training on campaigning over the last five years or so has been around the theme of successful campaigning and I have tried to use my time to encourage others on what is possible for them to campaign about. But in recent months, I have begun to wonder if in fact […]
Campaigning in Somalia
One of my recurrent themes for this blog over the years has been my fascination and amazement at the fact that the language of campaigning is truly international. I recently put that theory to the test again by undertaking an assignment for Saferworld in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland. Over a five day period I ran a two […]
Holding out for a hero with The Right Ethos
Earlier this week I tweeted: “Help for Heroes is non-political and non-critical, we simply want to help” – that’s suitable, but means that they don’t have the right ethos Help for Heroes have just recently won an award for being the Most Admired Charity and this comment about being “non-political and non-critical” struck me and […]
Evie Papada
Whilst Campaign Coordinator at Amnesty International Who is the campaigner you admire the most? The campaigner I admire the most is Sarah Duthie. She is a campaigner at Greenpeace. Apart from your current organisation which other organisation that campaigns do you currently admire? ‘War on Want’- They seem to campaign on very topical issues and […]