Campaign Starter Pack
This Campaign Starter Pack from Campaign Bootcamp UK contains information, inspiration and activity sheets, based on the experience and knowledge of people who have fought for change.
Topic
Campaign Strategy
Resources to enable groups to plan effective campaigns and other social change projects. These tools will help you assess the social and political situation, identify opportunities, map stakeholders, develop clear objectives, and come up with creative and powerful tactics.
You will find additional strategy guidance and inspiration in the case studies section.
Planning your First Campaign: Everyday Activism Handout Pack
Are you planning your first campaign? This Handout is designed to give you the skills and confidence to run your first campaign.
Campaign Planning: How to Get Started
What is a campaign? and how do you start one? Here are ideas, steps and handouts from Campaign Bootcamp to help you get started with your campaign planning.
It’s All About Power: A Guide to Thinking Differently about Power for Solidarity in Social Change
This guide has resources to help you think about how power is at play and to take action to transform power and build solidarity in social change.
Before Action Reviews (BARs) and After Action Reviews (AARs)
Useful tools to help with planning and reflections in your campaigns – Before Action Reviews (BARs) and After Action Reviews (AARs).
Make the First 100 Days Count: Steps for Holding the New Government Accountable
Resources gathered to make the first 100 days count after an election and hold the new government to account and bring about change.
Build People Power and Capacity to Run Effective Campaigns and Movements to Tackle the Climate Crisis
Tools, skills, and resources from 350.org to build capacity to run effective campaigns and movements to tackle the climate crisis.
Understanding and Assessing Your Organization’s Strategic Capacity
Watch this webinar recording to understand and asses your organization’s strategy capacity. Use strategy to build and win political power.
Projecting Power: Visual Strategy for Movements
Webinars on visual strategy will help you make a plan to create the images we need to win. You’ll be ready to tell a bolder story in the street, maximizing threat to power and making actions more welcoming and joyful.
Turning Grassroots Activism Into Durable Political Power
Watch this webinar to learn the basics of social movement theory and how those insights can be applied to building durable political power.
Lessons learned from Campaigning to popularize and win the Green New Deal
This webinar covers Sunrise Movement’s campaign for a Green New Deal with special focus on the planning and analysis that informed action.
Points of Intervention
Campaigners – Where is the best place to take action with the greatest impact? Learn about making change using points of intervention.
Should fighting for democracy take priority over building powerful social movements?
Activists throughout history have put social movement work on hold for the electoral arena. Determining whether to do so is a matter of strategy and calling.
Should we disrupt the Democratic Party or try to take it over?
How movements settle the debate on whether to engage with political parties from the inside or outside will have a profound impact on their effectiveness.
From Protest to Politics: The Effectiveness of Civil Society in shaping the Nuclear-free Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
A case study about what made anti-nuclear activism successful in Aotearoa New Zealand between the 1960s – 1980s.
Dealing with Far-Right Interventions in Left-Wing and Progressive Movements
An examination of the growing influence of far-right and conspiracy-driven ideologies, including interventions in left-wing and progressive movements. The article outlines eight ways activists and organisers can respond.
Winning Long-game, Collaborative, Grassroots Campaigns: The WA Forest Campaign Experience
Reflections and wisdom from Jess Beckerling from the WA Forest Alliance. Here are her learnings from winning long game grassroots campaigns.
Making Change: What Works?
What key ingredients enable movements to realise significant change? Learn from four movements and this report’s insights and findings.
Five Lessons from Fair Agenda’s Campaigns for Access to Abortion Care in Australia
Lessons learned from Fair Agenda’s campaigns on winning safe and legal access to abortion care in Australia.
Social Movements and the (mis)use of Research: Extinction Rebellion and the 3.5% rule
Extinction Rebellion member Kyle R Matthews explores how scholarship regarding civil resistance campaigns seeking regime change has been used by environmental activists.