General election toolkit

The World Development Movement general election toolkit will provide you with ideas and resources to help you engage with your parliamentary candidates from writing letters to planning a hustings event.

The template letters and press releases contained in the toolkit are also downloadable for you to customise.

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WDM General Election Toolkit

WDM General Election Toolkit.pdf 598.31 KB

Template letter to candidates.doc

letter to candidates.doc 23.5 KB

Hustings press release template

Hustings press release template.doc 22.5 KB

Hustings letter to newspaper post event

Hustings letter to newspaper post event.doc 22 KB

Template letters to local newspapers

Template letters to local newspapers.doc 24 KB

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2013

Two years of concerted campaigning by WDM results in Barclays, the UK's biggest player in food speculation and one of the top three globally, announcing that it will no longer trade in food for speculative purposes.

2012

Following a prolonged campaign by a coalition of Scottish NGOs and local pressure groups including WDM Scotland, plans for a new coal-fired power station in Hunterston, North Ayrshire are shelved.

2011

After concerted lobbying by WDM supporters, French oil company Total postpones plans to mine tar sands deposits in one of the poorest regions of Madagascar.

2011

The UK government puts £10 million of its climate finance towards the UN Adaptation Fund, and agrees to give the majority of its funds to the World Bank's climate adaptation fund as grants rather than loans.

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