Community noticeboard
This noticeboard is for you, the campaign community!
We believe that strong communities have a foundation of generosity and giving to each other. We hope this space will be useful when you have something you would like to share with the campaign community, or something you would like to offer, such as campaigning jobs, campaign reports, campaigning guides, campaigning events, campaigning podcasts, or any campaigning news.
Please note: this noticeboard isn’t for campaign actions such as signing of petitions and donations.
This free online workshop series from Future Narratives Lab called Effective Narratives & Messaging for Coalition is grounded in the learning they have done in recent years around the specific challenges faced by non-profit and campaigning coalitions when tackling complex social issues. This series will share the learning and approaches they have gained. Book here >
Join our panel with Citizens Advice and Money A+E to learn how to demonstrate your organisation’s value and build a narrative about your impact, no matter your size. Monday 9 December 12-1pm. Find out more and book here.
Changing Ideas and the Public Interest News Foundation (PINF) have launched a new award for Tenacious Journalists, an expansion of the Tenacious Awards. This award aims to support UK journalists and small news organisations to have a positive social impact. Find out more here.
Social Change Lab has created the Activists Resource Hub for people working to bring about social change. Whether you are new to campaigning and activism or busy doing the work, this resource has so much on offer, including great training and practical tools. Find out more here.
Future Advocacy are working with leading advocacy specialists to develop a series of short videos with ideas on how to maximise the impact of advocacy work. Head here to check it out.
In August 2023 Carnegie UK began a programme of engagement to help improve understanding of participatory and deliberative democracy’s ability to deliver democratic wellbeing. This report captures the insights, ideas and observations generated from this programme of work. Read here.
A toolkit for Extinction Rebellion UK that is aimed at all activists. To see full list of resources, head here.
This newsletter from Paul de Gregorio, an engagement & mobilisation strategist for charities, (some) political parties, campaign groups & progressive causes is a real treat. Paul runs an organisation called Rally. Rally works with organisations fighting for a fairer, healthier, safer, greener, more equal world.
Sign up here
This blog is a good place to start with short, readable blogs for activists by a self-proclaimed ‘social change geek’.
Read here
The ChangeMakers podcast features stories about social change and interviews with people changing the world (ChangeMaker Chats). We produce content to help people change the world.
Listen here
In this blog, Yasmin Khan, a research Fellow in 2023/24 at the University of the Arts London AKO Storytelling Institute that culminated with the inception of the Museum of Truth and Lies, discusses her research. She explains how it led to making a podcast series about what activist artists and cultural leaders think museums are doing well and what they could do better when it comes to truth-telling. Read here.
Social Change Lab have launched their latest research, Campaigning and activism: what funders think. They asked 100 funders about their attitudes to funding campaigners and activists. Read final report here.