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We build the power of social movements by strengthening their alignment, strategic capacity and organising skills.
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Build, create and win together. Hands-on support and training for social movements.
Guides, handbooks and other resources to help you organise, communicate and navigate movement spaces
Bespoke training and consultancy on everything from media training to strategy sessions
We focus on four critical areas in our work: Climate, Housing, Migration & The Rise of Far-Right Politics
We have a set of resources that help you organise better, communicate brilliantly and navigate movement spaces. From messaging guides to practical handbooks: take a look at what we’ve got.
This quick-fire guide has been developed for spokespeople talking about routes to settlement and migration in the media.
This messaging guide has been developed for communicators and campaigners talking about protest.
This guide aims to support spokespeople whether they are ‘expert’ voices (i.e. climate scientists) or local voices on the ground to speak about extreme weather events globally
The guide is written by campaigners, activists and experts in how Parliament works. It’s designed for anyone working toward social change who wants to understand Westminster and how to influence it, without needing a degree in politics or years of insider knowledge.
Developed with Positive Money, this aim of this guide is to support spokespeople communicating the need to prioritise our health and wellbeing instead of economic growth.
A messaging guide on how to advocate for a wealth tax.
This messaging guide supports the 2024 We Are the Economy coalition campaign, which aims to build a public narrative around public services being the essential foundation of a thriving economy.
Translated into Ukrainian, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
This guide was for people across the progressive movement who were communicating about the Climate Talks in Glasgow in November 2021. The messages here are useful both for folks who see themselves as part of the climate movement and those who don’t.
What do people think about ULEZ and air pollution?
Developed with the Clean Cities Campaign, this guide supports people talking about ULEZ and air pollution as a public health issue.
Written with Minnie Rahman, this guide is for spokespeople who talk about migration issues in the media.
A guide written to support campaigners and spokespeople responding to the government's Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill focusing on the breach of civil liberties, right to protest and the attack on communities with marginalised identities.
A guide written to support campaigners and spokespeople responding to the government's Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill.
A guide to support people speaking about the monarchy after the Queen's death.
A guide about how to communicate about benefits, welfare and the social security system.
This guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into Spanish, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Written with Unchecked, this guide is about how to advocate for regulations and protections on water, food and toys and much more.
A guide in response to this government's hostile immigration policies.
Developed with the Social Guarantee to support people advocating for better public services as essential to the economy.
What do people think about public services?
A rapid response guide to support people commenting on plans to add VAT to private schools fees.
The guide covers key press officer skills such as writing killer press releases, using the phone, preparing spokespeople for broadcast and much much more.
Translated into Portuguese, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
A guide to public opinion polling. Why and when it is useful, the limitations and how to write a polling question.
What do people think about policing and safety?
This toolkit is all about how structure and operations can best serve your purpose and strategy and support your organisational culture by centring your values and building anti-oppressive and liberatory thought and practice into your foundations.
This toolkit is a guide to the key strategic questions you need to answer in order to write and develop a good strategy. It contains exercises, practices and ideas and you should leave with a full strategy.
This toolkit is a guide to identifying what’s happening with your culture - what’s going well, where that comes from and how can you have more of that, and what are the elements you don’t want, why have they arisen, and how can you create change.
This guide was written in response to the government's plan to forcible send people who have crossed the channel to a detention centre in Rwanda.
A guide to repond to government proposed 'pay rises' to nurses.
A guide about how to respond to the government publishing the NHS Whitepaper in 2021, pushing back on NHS privatisation.
A guide to make the case for free access to healthcare for all regardless of immigration status. It's draws on research conducted by Survation and Doctors of the World.
What do people think about monarchy?
Developed by NEON and NEF, this guide draws on several phases of research conducted by KSBR, including focus groups. The KSBR research focused on ‘Red Wall Switchers’ to better understand their attitudes towards a Living Income.
Translated into Japanese, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
This is a guide with messaging tips to support spokespeople responding to news stories around strikes.
This is a guide with messaging tips to support spokespeople responding to news stories around demonstrations.
Developed with Debt Justice, co-written with James Robertson, this guide supports people talking about debt and advocating for debt cancellation.
This messaging guide helps people answer how we pay for the solutions and change we are advocating for.
This report explores the problem we are facing, how we understand the housing movement, what shared barriers there are, and what common ground there might be for collaborative action in the movement.
A guide for housing campaigners advocating for a rent cap.
This report explores the problem we are facing, how we understand the hostile environment movement, what shared barriers there are, and what common ground there might be for collaborative action in the movement.
A one-page overview of the key recommendations from the Holding our Own messaging guide
Developed with Liberty as part of the Holding Our Own campaign to support people advocating for alternatives to policing.
Developed by Possible and NEON, the aim of this guide is to help campaigners and communicators articulate a clear and compelling story about home heating, the problem with gas boilers and the benefits of heat pumps.
This report explores the problem we are facing, how we understand the health movement, what shared barriers there are, and what common ground there might be for collaborative action in the health movement.
Translated into French, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
A guide from Make My Money Matter & NEON to support people talking about the relationship between our finance system and fossil fuel expansion.
A guide to focus groups. Why and when they are useful, a round up of different options and how to use the results.
Focus group 101 session run by Jane Cairn from Survation.
What do people think about financial regulation?
Developed with Finance Innovation Lab, this guide supports people advocating for better financial protections.
A guide about how to communicate about the rising cost of energy bills.
A guide to support people speaking about the monarchy during the King's coronation.
This report looks at how the ‘culture wars’ are a reactionary backlash constructed to distract us, and how to respond to this.
This report - commissioned by NEON, funded by Lankelly Chase, and produced by Align - looks at how people in the housing, migration and climate movements in the UK, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic (produced in May 2020).
A guide about how to communicate about the rising cost of living.
This is a practical guide for how to talk about a fair tax system that sees those with the most pay more.
Developed with PIRC, this guide was written in response to the government's Sovereign Borders Bill and focuses on how it impacts LGBTQIA+ asylum seeking.
This report explores the problem we are facing, how we understand the climate movement, what shared barriers there are, and what common ground there might be for collaborative action in the movement.
Developed from the Framing Climate Justice Project with PIRC and 360.org, this guide is for anyone trying to talk about climate justice.
A guide to support spokespeople responding to news on channel crossings.
A guide written to support spokespeople doing media around COVID-19 to bring the value of care and community solidarity to the fore of the conversation.
Translated into Bihasa, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into Bengali, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
A guide to support people talking about AI
Translated into Arabic, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
This guide was developed for the Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah Inquest, to support her family and campaigners making the case for air pollution as the cause of her death, in the media.