Last month I had the opportunity of running advocacy workshops for the Open Society Foundations in Georgia and Ukraine. My aim was to support parents who wanted to advocate for changes to support children better with conditions like autism. The campaigning passion of...
Since 2007, I have had the good fortune to be asked to run a session on the Certificate in Campaigning. This superb course, now on its 20th intake, is run by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). It aims to offer campaign training for people working...
I've written a lot recently about the importance of passion in campaigning. And passion for a cause has been much on mind recently having just joined the trustee board of Voice of Domestic Workers. If you don't know about this charity they are well worth a look. They...
I’ve recently done a bit of work with Migrant Voice. If you don’t know them, they are well worthy of a look – and as the name suggests they are all about giving a voice to migrants. They were contacted last year by a group of international students, who had had their...
In the last few talks that I’ve given on campaigning in the UK voluntary sector, one theme has kept recurring – the need for passionate leadership. Speaking at UpRising national conference Now you may think that this is a statement of the obvious, but sometimes I do...
Last week I ran a session for NCVO's Certificate in Campaigning. I have been doing such a session since the certificate first started in 2007. If you don't know about this course it is well worth a look - I wish it had been around when I first started campaigning. The...