Eskmuthe Community Rowing Club has been awarded a £150 donation from the Campaign Collective Community Fund to help cover costs as members prepare to travel to the 2025 SkiffieWorlds – the World Championships of St Ayles skiff coastal rowing – in Stranraer this July. The donation will go towards kitting out the younger rowers and …
Ian Morton, Campaign Collective member and co-author of ‘Hear My Voice – a guide for first-time local campaigners,’ shares his perspective on the highs and lows of campaigning, and why you should never give up: “Campaigning can be a thankless task; it can feel like you’re giving all your energy to something and making little …
At Campaign Collective, our high impact campaigns get social justice issues heard in the corridors of power, through the news headlines, across social media and among community groups. We bring organisations and people together to unite around solutions to the biggest challenges society faces including climate change, democracy, education, online safety, poverty, housing, health and …
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With National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) 2025 encouraging everyone to consider and celebrate how apprenticeships and skills help individuals develop rewarding careers, Campaign Collective continues to pledge its support to the next generation of communicators through its ongoing work on the Public Relations & Communications Assistant (PR&CA) Apprenticeship. As the newly revised version 1.1 of this …
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Social enterprise Campaign Collective has launched a new guide to help grassroots and first-time campaigners who want to take action on a local issue. Hear My Voice is a downloadable campaign guide packed with top tips on how to influence those in power, providing all the tools and techniques needed to run a successful local …
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Campaign Collective member, Louise Akers, has extensive experience working with charities to help them achieve media cut through and reach their target audiences. We asked Louise to share her advice and expertise on how to make awareness days work for your campaign: “There are now hundreds of awareness days, weeks and months, and charities and …
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Social work students campaigning for bursaries while working on public sector placements have welcomed promises made by the Scottish Government, but warned that more still needs to be done. Students – backed by the Social Workers Union – have campaigned for bursaries for all third and fourth year undergraduate social work students in Scotland working …
Liver Cancer UK, part of the British Liver Trust, is calling for urgent action as new NHS data reveal a 5.4% increase in liver cancer incidence across England. The new data show that new cases of liver cancer grew from 7,672 in 2020 to 8,085 in 2022 which included 4,700 new cases in males and …
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It’s World Mental Health Day (10 October 2024). This year’s theme is workplace mental health, highlighting the importance of addressing mental health and wellbeing in the workplace for the benefit of people, organisations and the wider community. At Campaign Collective, mental health and wellbeing are a regular topic of discussion. We’re proud of the network …
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Charity representatives met with Neil Gray MSP at Holyrood on 5 September to discuss the urgent need to prioritise less survivable cancers as part of Scotland’s wider cancer strategy. The meeting of members of the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care took place one year on from …
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