Launched during National Apprenticeship Week 2024 (5 – 11 February), an upgraded PR and communications apprenticeship standard is now available to employers seeking to nurture the next generation of communications professionals. The new standard has been fully updated to meet the needs of employers in an increasingly digital world, with a focus on building, protecting …
Campaign Collective member, Jo Tilley-Riley, is a strategic communications expert with a wealth of experience working with social sector organisations. She is also a qualified coach and offers transition coaching for people from the social sector and for women from all sectors who are returning from maternity leave. We asked Jo to share her reflections …
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De Montfort University (DMU) has selected Campaign Collective to help raise its profile among UK policy makers. Campaign Collective members will help coordinate meetings with policy makers and politicians, and organise policy roundtables and other stakeholder events. The campaign will address a number of key challenges facing politicians in the run-up to the next UK …
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Campaign Collective proudly partnered with WorldSkills Europe to support the eighth edition of the European Championship of Young Professionals, which took place in Gdańsk, Poland from 5-9 September 2023. Held every two years and organised by WorldSkills Europe together with 32 Member countries, EuroSkills is an international showcase of technical and vocational education, which brings together …
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As a social enterprise, our aim, here at Campaign Collective, is to make a positive contribution to society. We do this through our campaign work and by investing our profits into our social purpose fund. In September 2018, we launched our positive news website, The Rooftop News – our most ambitious social enterprise project yet. We …
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At a recent training session for Social Workers Union frontline organisers, Simon Francis, Campaign Collective founder member, shared inspiration for successful campaigns. Drawing on campaigns delivered by the Collective, including those supported through the SWU Campaign Fund and from the wider world, delegates explored the key elements that successful campaigns have in common. 1. Have …
Former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP addressed a packed room at an event to promote proportional representation at the TUC Congress in Liverpool. A growing number of unions are now backing a proportional voting system (PR) because they believe the current system isn’t working for working people. Most recently, public service workers union Unison and …
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Simon Francis, co-ordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition and a Campaign Collective founder member, told the Commons Energy Security and Net Zero Committee yesterday that estimates suggested that there were 4,706 excess winter deaths over 2022 to 2023 caused by living in a cold damp home in England, Scotland and Wales, up from 3,186 the …
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Two social work students have been presented with special awards for their campaign to secure bursaries for students on placements in Scotland. Lucy Challoner and David Grimm were presented with the Common Good Award for Activism by Glasgow Caledonian University’s Department of Social Work, which is part of its School of Health and Life Sciences. …
The Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) has made the shortlist for Charity Partnership of the Year in this year’s Third Sector Awards.The award recognises collaborations between charities which have resulted in the achievement of collective goals.