Share skills for effective campaigning

This section of the Community pages is a space for groups and activists to share skills and tips for effective local campaigning.  If you have something you would like to share (anything that has worked particularly well for you, and tips on what to avoid too!) then please email them to katharine@wdm.org.uk

Get in touch

Once you've captured interested people's contact details (using our simple sign up form below), it's good practice to contact them straightaway whilst WDM is fresh in their minds and they're amenable to putting your next meeting date in their diary immediately!  Take a look at the email Cambridge WDM sent out the day after they held a stall at a screening of the film CRUDE...

Many thanks for leaving your name on our Cambridge WDM list at the showing of CRUDE, the film about oil on Tuesday 26 Jan.

Glad you want to hear more about WDM.

Here are the minutes from our last meeting which gives you a feel for the campaigning that we do. Also a letter you might want to send off to the Minister for Energy & Climate Change about the Climate Change fund that the UK is offering Bangladesh. We want to support our partners in Bangladesh by asking that this fund is not managed by the World Bank.

If you want to catch up with the national campaigns please see www.wdm.org.uk

Or see www.cambridgewdm.org.uk for news of our local group

You can see pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/wdm/

We meet monthly on the third Wednesday and you would be welcome to join us. Please let me know.

Best wishes

Sue Woodsford

sue.woodsford@ntlworld.com

Cambridge WDM

Branch Secretary

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Capture contact details!

Wherever you’re campaigning, always have a sign-up sheet to hand (attached below).

The standard WDM sign-up sheet has tick boxes for people to say whether they are happy to be contacted by their WDM local group, or by the WDM national office, or both.

If people tick both boxes, add them to your contact list and then send the forms to the office so we can add details to our database.

If people just tick the local WDM box, then just add them to your contact list.

Ideas for managing your contact lists

It is ideal to have two separate contact lists:

1) Wider/information list – anyone who signs up at an event gets added to this list. It is used for circulating details about events and group activities (probably once or twice a month).

2) Group member/organising list – this is for people who regularly attend group meetings and is used for frequent emails discussions.

Naturally those on the first list should receive information about when and where group meetings are taking place. If they decide to attend meetings regularly then they will move to the second list.

Downloads

signupsheet171209.pdf

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