Campaign Action Pack

Social workers need to experience hope if they are to engender a sense of hope in those they support, and the Campaign Action Pack is an ethical tool for hope. [...] Schedule in a slot halfway through that allows you to explain how people can get involved in the campaign.19 PART 1: ACTION • The compère’s role is to keep the audience informed and ensure the event runs to time. [...] If you have secured a free venue, such as a local cinema, part of the deal may be that guests have to use their bar or café – so ensure you allow time at the start and a break for people to buy refreshments. • At the end of the event thank people for coming and explain how they can get involved in your campaign. [...] The role of the compère - you will need a compère to tell everyone how the rally will work, who is speaking and keep the rally moving. [...] • Write to people who signed up along the way or since, as a result of your leaflets and publicity – explain what the campaign is about and how to get involved. [...] It might help to do one or two interviews in a quiet room and you can use them as voice-over material for a different shot in the film. [...] When people stop and ask you what you are doing, it offers the opportunity to have a conversation in a quiet and non-threatening way. [...] Your stakeholder map is the start of your supporter database. It can become your mailing list when you are organising events and you can identify key people who will come out on your side when you write letters to the press or need speakers at a public meeting for example. [...] • Come to meet a group of social workers or a group of people that you work with who are at risk. At the end of your meeting you can offer to draft letters and materials for them – this helps to keep you in control of the message and will speed up the action to be taken. Keep in touch with them. [...] If you are going to collect names, addresses and emails of people who support your campaign: • Add a statement to the petition or whatever supporters are signing to say how you will use the information.