Campaign Training
We believe that anyone can be a force for change
Something for everyone with our three types of campaign training:
Campaign Carouselâ„¢: building the complete campaigner
Our Campaign Carouselâ„¢ is an exciting and flexible way for campaigners to hone their skills across a broad range of areas. This comprehensive package trains those at or near the start of their campaigning journey in a rounded set of campaigning skills and approaches.
Open Training Programme: honing your specific campaigning skills
This wide-ranging programme of campaigning workshops will provide you with the basic building blocks of effective campaigning, as well as more specialist sessions that take a deep dive into specific skills and approaches. Workshop themes range from influencing in parliament to community organising.
Commissioned Training: supporting organisations to develop successful campaigns
We offer diverse training on a commissioned basis for teams, organisations and coalitions. Our off-the-shelf packages include workshops, events and programmes. Bespoke training is designed in partnership with you. Whatever your needs, we aim to meet them.
More opportunities for campaigners and changemakersÂ
2 new action learning sets
We know from listening to leaders in charities, that there are particular challenges in leading campaigning programmes. We are partnering with Josephine Knowles to run a new series of sets for senior leaders and for emerging leaders in campaigning organisations.
Free Changemakers' Toolkit
With the support of Wikimedia UK, we have launched an open access toolkit to empower people to campaign effectively. We know that campaigners, activists, and changemakers of all types are stepping up to address injustices, improve conditions in their communities, and draw attention to neglected issues. We hope this free campaigning tool will help them get there.
Let the change begin – start now!Â
Deep Dive sessions in 2025
In today’s ever-evolving campaigning landscape, understanding complex topics is essential. SMK’s Deep Dive sessions, led by experts, provide campaigners with intensive, focused sessions that explore specific subjects in depth.
Building confident campaigning governance
– new offer for trustees
Our recent research with Governance & Leadership magazine found that support for campaigning amongst trustees is high, but levels of confidence do not match.
In response, SMK has produced a free short guide for trustees called Navigating charity campaigning that points to five essential conversations board should have to develop confident campaigning governance. It can be used alone, or as the starting point for a board conversation guided by SMK. Our one-hour or three-hour sessions will help boards explore campaign governance together. Full details in this blog.
Take the first step to building campaigning governance confidence in your organisation. Register your interest by emailing SMK Head of Programmes Kath Christie.
Training blogs: a deeper dive into our training
How To Gain Context, Community, and Capacity in Your Campaigns
Campaigns require knowledge of the right context, a community to support you, and sufficient capacity to work. Here's how SMK's Campaign Carousel helps with all three. "Campaigning for ambitious changes to broken systems can feel like a fruitless task at...
Interview with campaigner Maisson Hassan
In this interview, campaigner Maisson Hassan who joined Women for Refugee Women (WRW) as Campaigns Assistant back in April 2025, talks through what drove her to become a campaigner and her journey through the Campaign Carousel this year. What has been your route into...
How To Improve Your Activism
Campaigners are often the driving force for social progress. If you’re ready to become a fully-equipped activist, advocate, organiser, or campaigner, SMK is here to support you with the Campaign Carousel. Here are four ways it can improve your activism. Develop...
How To Build Campaigner NetworksÂ
SMK believes that one of the best support systems we offer is the opportunity to meet and network with other social change campaigners and activists. The Campaign Carousel is the perfect opportunity to do so. Why We Need Campaigner Networks: As passionate...
Reflections from a Rider: Molly Deakin
Find out what Molly Deakin, Policy and Campaigns Officer at Together Trust, learned from her experience on SMK’s Campaign Carousel training programme. I’ve spent nearly a decade working and volunteering on the front line and volunteering across the health and social...
Top 3 Ways the Campaign Carousel Helps Campaigners
Since 2021, SMK has worked with and trained over 200 campaigners across the country and abroad on SMK’s Campaign Carousel™, our comprehensive campaign training course complete with mentoring from campaign experts. It’s always a two way experience with SMK learning so...