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 can see the current system isn’t working for working people. Most recently, public service workers union Unison …
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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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The Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce has launched a groundbreaking survey to give a voice to people affected by a terminal diagnosis of one of the deadliest cancers. Patients and their loved ones will have the opportunity to share their experiences after receiving a diagnosis for one of the less survivable cancers: brain, liver, lung, stomach, …
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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.
The 2023 National Pensioners’ Annual Convention has heard a stark warning that millions of vulnerable people will be unable to stay warm this winter. Last year, over 9m adults lived in Dickensian conditions unable to keep their homes warm and damp free. The figures from the Warm This Winter campaign, also revealed that over 1m …
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Campaign Collective is delighted to welcome communications expert Jo Tilley-Riley as its latest member. Jo joins the Collective after spending six years as Director of Fundraising and Communications at Hestia, where she was instrumental in the launch of the Safe Spaces scheme. She is an expert in social sector strategy and communications, having led the …
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This month the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) welcomed the new Cancer Strategy for Scotland as a big step in the right direction for people diagnosed with a less survivable cancer. The LSCT was invited to contribute to the strategy due to its expertise in the country’s deadliest cancers – those of the pancreas, lung, …
Shop workers union Usdaw has become the latest trade union to change its policy in favour of proportional representation for UK parliamentary elections. Usdaw represents over 400,000 people, many on low incomes, who work on the frontline of retail. The union campaigns for improvements to working life for their members including a £12 minimum wage …
Read more “Campaign Collective coordinates successful electoral reform campaign”