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We are hiring! Programme & Events Manager
This is a pivotal role, managing the operational engine room at the...
What else shook out of the 2020 Campaign Shakedown?
Just before Christmas, we hosted a conversation with change-makers,...
What shook out of the 2020 Campaign Shakedown?
We decided to round off the strange year that was 2020 with a chance...
Unleashing Young People’s Social Power
We asked Colin Dutton, a qualified Youth Worker at MAP, a youth...
Civil Society, Unleashed
SMK is delighted to be involved in the new Law Family Commission on...
Politics happens over a cup of tea and down the shops, and charities should embrace it
With numbing inevitability, the Chair of the Charity Commission...
Sharing learning, sharing power
Understanding and transforming power for social change is a journey,...
Introducing the Campaign Carousel™
As an organisation that exists to build the capacity of others to...
Four approaches to better campaigning
As practitioners in campaign effectiveness, we have observed that...
He shoots, he scores! Is Marcus Rashford setting a new bar for ‘celebrity’ campaigners?
I’ve developed an almost Pavlovian reaction to celebrity...
Passing the baton and sharing power during the pandemic
Seven months after the first national Covid-19 lockdown was imposed,...
Power in Lived Experience
SMK Trustee, Kimberly Garande, writes about how working with SMK on...
The ‘new’ SMK: Unleashing Social Power
Fifteen years ago, SMK was set up in memory of Sheila McKechnie -...
Unleashing social power – from the micro to the macro
As Head of Training and Consultancy, I oversee a great deal of the...
Time for a change. A rebrand to make a difference
Sheila McKechnie Foundation has a new look. But it means more than a...
Shelter explores what power sharing looks like in the housing movement
Shelter held an internal event to present SMK’s Power Sharing...
What are we hearing on the Power Sharing Project so far?
This is a long-read blog in which we share what we’ve been hearing...
Windrush Scandal Two Years On: We Are Still Righting the Wrongs
It has been a long, hard and personal journey as a child of the...
#BlackLivesMatter: as change-makers we all need to do the work
With protest and debate spreading around the world following the...
Young people don’t need to be given a voice, but sometimes they need to borrow ours.
Ensuring the voices of young people are heard is a daunting task,...
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