How to start winning against corporates: lessons from business-beating campaigns
From Shell to Barclays to Unilever, campaigners have defeated giant corporations. Here’s how you can too.
6 Tips for 6 Weeks of Election Campaigning
A few simple pointers for those at charities and non-profits to make the most of the 6 week election period.
The Best Performing Election Emails in 2019
At the last General Election I oversaw the mobilisation of Labour’s supporters. What can charities and non-profits learn from the best performing emails from the last election?
6 Campaign Actions From 2023 and What We Can Learn From Them
From Just Stop Oil storming the snooker to Refuge dumping bad apples. Which protests had the biggest impact in 2023 and why?
What a 25 million-view video showed us about creative campaigning for the General Election
Our campaign stunt led to weeks of mainstream headlines. Braverman was derided by Conservative commentators. What can we learn from this creative stunt about shaping the narrative in the run up to the upcoming General Election?
The campaigns sector needs more working class people. Here’s how to join it and change the country.
10 years on from becoming a professional campaigner, I share my advice for people from working class backgrounds trying to change the country.
5 ingredients for campaign winning social media
Want to quickly create popular social media to help you win campaigns? I'm running a content creation session for the Sheila McKechnie Foundation where I’ll be sharing some of my experience from creating with the likes of Greenpeace, Labour and Shelter. This blog gives you a sneak peak into some of the things we’ll talk about.
How we forced the government’s airline to pull out of the cash for humans Rwanda scheme
The inside story from the #StopTheFlights campaign.
5 simple online fundraising tips for activists to use right now
We want to win campaigns. We want to change the world. Unfortunately, we often need a little money to do that. In a time of economic crisis and during a global pandemic, it can be difficult to ask for cash — but there are people willing to help you, if you ask in the right way.
5 historic protests and how our right to organise is under threat
From Bristol to Leeds, activists up and down the country have been taking to the streets to fight for their rights to protest. The government is pushing the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill through Parliament in the wake of the Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion movements.
Covid changed the way the Labour movement organises, now let’s learn from it.
Over the last few months, the labour movement has done some incredible things – from mobilising hundreds of thousands of workers to providing for countless local people in need. The renewed emphasis on community provision, digital organising and political education shouldn’t end when the crisis does.