Building Campaign Capacity

In this campaigning workshop you will learn about SMK’s ground-breaking concept of Social Power and how it can drive truly transformational change

Using a series of practical tools, this campaigning workshop will help you work through how to define your core campaign problem and concrete steps to developing your campaign plan.

In this content-rich campaign communications workshop, you’ll learn how to successfully craft narratives and use powerful storytelling and framing.

Jam-packed with insider tips, this campaigner workshop provides useful tools and frameworks for embedding a learning-based campaigning approach

Brimming with insights, this legal campaigns workshop will provide you with impactful methods and a practical planning framework for future use.

Our community organising workshop is full of tips and tricks on how to best work locally to build lasting communities of change.

In this digital campaigning workshop, you will explore what makes a successful digital campaign strategy, including how to develop effective, impact-driven mobilisation tactics and actions.

This self-care workshop provides practical tips and tools, plus a chance to hear how peers maintain resilience in their work.

This political campaigning workshop features a political insider’s perspective into where power in our political system lies, focusing on Parliament, 10 Downing Street and Whitehall.

You will leave this social media workshop in rapid content creation with a practical plan full of social content ideas to use.

Using SMK’s unique tools and approaches to thinking about power, this solidarity workshop guides you through allyship and participation of people with first-hand experience in social change work.

This session will demystify local power, helping you understand where decisions are made and how to increase your campaigning impact.

This deep dive is an in-depth session for experienced campaigners and leaders who want to explore how to:

• Develop a campaign strategy that works using our 4Cs approach to campaign strategy (more below)
• Understand how to apply this approach in today’s fast-moving landscape
• Dive deep into some case studies of how to balance strategy planning with agility
• Gain a set of practical tools to support your strategy development

This Deep Dive will equip you with a tried and tested approach to developing impactful theories of change for your campaigns and organisations including;

• The benefits of the theory of change approach and how it complements other campaign planning tools and frameworks used in advocacy
• Consider the best ways for teams to work on theories of change, as well as some of the pitfalls to avoid
• Work on your own draft theory of change using a template

This deep dive will demystify processes, help you understand where decisions are made and how to increase your campaigning impact. You will;

• Gain an insider’s perspective on local power including the key channels and players
• Consider how to maximise your local campaigning and have a real impact ahead.
• Dive deep into some examples of what makes for a successful local campaign
• Understand how to best engage local activists

This deep dive will explore strategies to engage effectively with policymakers, developing tools and techniques that help. You will get to;

• Open up the black box that is policymaking. How is policy made? What shapes policy decisions?
• Explore what the world looks like to a policymaker, to help you put yourselves in the shoes of the people you are trying to influence.
• Examine strategies for engagement: applying the insight into policy to the changes you want to make.