Campaign guides

Here you’ll find a selection of guides to help with your campaigning. If you can’t find what you were looking for or have a question about campaigning with RESULTS, contact [email protected].

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Working with the media: writing a letter to the editor

Most newspapers and magazines have a ‘letters page’ that gives readers the opportunity to express their views and opinions. The letters page is often the most frequently read page of a publication and provides you with a good opportunity to promote your cause to a wide audience. Read on for an easy guide on how to craft and pitch a letter to the editor for your local paper.

Campaigns Calendar 2023

Check out our campaigns calendar for a heads-up about some advocacy moments, important internationally recognised days and RESULTS events throughout 2023. We’ll send more ideas throughout the year through our mailing list but in the meantime, why not have a think about which activities you might want to do in 2023.

Blog guide

Creating and running a blog site in your local RESULTS group is easy, and we want everyone to be confident with the type of content they are posting in RESULTS’ name. To help you, we’ve put together these tips on using blogs as an advocacy tool. We’ve also included some basics on setting up and running a blog site, suggestions for content, and some guidelines on what to post from your group’s account when associated with RESULTS UK.

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Welcome pack for volunteers

Are you interested in getting involved with RESULTS UK? Then check out our Welcome Pack for an overview of what being a RESULTS volunteer is all about!

This is also a useful resource for existing volunteers.

MP Meeting Preparation: Draft agenda and planner

The following document is a template for RESULTS UK advocates planning to meet with their local Member of Parliament. Please refer to the relevant campaign Action Sheet and Background Sheets for more information, and see our guide, How to hold a successful meeting with your MP for more tips on securing a meeting and developing a long-term relationship...

Gentle Protest letter writing guide with Craftivist Collective

This guide is a collaboration between RESULTS UK and Craftivist Collective. It can be used by campaigners to help think differently about letter writing as a campaign action, and works as a practical guide on how to do letter-writing with a twist. We know that many MPs in the UK have been hard to get hold of during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we think that really personal messages are especially important given the challenging circumstances.

If you’d like to have a go, you can choose...

FCO-DFID talking points

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced (16 June) that the Department for International Development (DFID) will be merged with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from September. RESULTS UK believes this decision is wrong and that it will undermine the effectiveness of UK aid spending and its focus on helping the world’s poorest and most marginalised people. If you have already booked a virtual meeting with your MP, or if you hope to do so, on the topic of the June grassroots...

Grassroots Group Guidance

RESULTS UK is a grassroots advocacy organisation with a long history of volunteer-based and volunteer-led advocacy and campaigning. We are committed to supporting all our volunteer advocates across the country to feel safe and secure when campaigning with RESULTS. These guidelines aim to help grassroots volunteers comply with RESULTS’ Safeguarding Policy. Volunteers should read through this guidance and keep it as a resource to refer to if and when needed.

The document includes...

Social media guide

Creating and running social media accounts in your local RESULTS group is easy, and we want everyone to be confident with the type of content they are posting in RESULTS’ name. To help you, we’ve put together these tips on using social media as an advocacy tool. We’ve also included some basics on setting up and running a social media account, suggestions for content, and some guidelines on what to post from your group’s social media account when associated with RESULTS UK.

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Healthy Lives events resources

We know that lots of you are busy planning an exciting array of Healthy Lives events to help raise awareness of malnutrition in the run up to Rio. Here are some resources you may find useful for your event, including posters, brief talking points to get your conversations started, and a model MP letter to encourage event attendees to take action.

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