Overcoming challenges to campaigning
Recently I was able to catch up with a former colleague of mine with whom I worked a lot in the past in Brussels, and he had recently secured a role running an NGO back in his home in Eastern …
Category: My blog
Re-starting my regular blog for the Right Ethos
After a break of 10 years, I am delighted to have re-started my regular blog for the Right Ethos. My first such blog was inspired by a recent meeting with Nazek Ramadan, the inspirational director at Migrant Voice, when she …
A new focus for 2026!
As we enter 2026, I am excited to be in a position to promote my latest initiative! My latest initiative is to update my book Campaigning for Change, which I published back in 2017. This was my first attempt at …
First blog post in a while!
Back in January, I wrote that my busy schedule showed no signs of abating and that was certainly true. If anything, it almost became too busy and I tried to do too many things because I was so passionate to …
And into 2025!
2024 was a very busy year for me – from the last update in July, my full portfolio of interesting assignments continued – now taking me into 2025 and shows no signs, for now, of slowing down. My work for …
It’s been a while!
It has been a while since I last did a blog post on this site mainly because things have been somewhat busy for me! My work at the Detention Forum, a network of over 50 independent organisations working together to …
London RCO Forum
I have had contact with the London Refugee Community Organisations’ (RCO) Advocacy Forum for years, in their different guises, ever since I was working at the Refugee Council back in 2007-11. It is such an important initiative bringing together refugee …
2023 – review of my year
After a very busy year in 2022, last year, whilst still full, wasn’t quite as manic as the previous year thankfully, and I worked on a number of diverse and interesting assignments such as: Continuing to support Detention Forum, and …
Sanctuary in Politics
Last month, I had the pleasure again to do a few sessions at the latest Sanctuary in Politics course, this time held in Swansea. This is an incredibly special training course, run by City of Sanctuary UK, and it’s basically …
A good example of a European campaign
Last month I was in Brussels running and advocacy workshop for Eurochild with their European campaign on Early Childhood Development. I have had the good fortune to be involved with this European campaign, involving now 11 different countries, since it …