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Launch22 – Thanks and Goodbye
We’re moving offices! The Social Change Agency has grown and our team needs the space to keep up its amazing work. We want to say a huge thank you to Launch22 who have hosted us in their brilliant co-working space in Kings Cross over the past 6 months. With their...
Decentralised Organising: More Collaboration, Less Hierarchy
From organisational governance to mobilising and sustaining grassroots movements, what is decentralised organising and how can this approach facilitate collective but efficient decision-making without management hierarchy? Decentralised organising isn’t just about...
An Interview With Brixton Pound
This month at The Social Change Agency we have been looking at the different people working on economic justice. The Brixton Pound (B£) is an amazing organisation helping to build this movement up. If you've ever been to Brixton market, you'll have seen their jazzy...
15 Ways to Explore Social and Economic Justice with Pop Culture
Media and pop culture has the power to ignite social change. It resonates with people’s emotions, creating an environment where campaigners go in to can win hearts and minds, creating a cultural shift in opinions. This then paves the way for policy change through...
When Trump Comes to Town
The 45th President has certainly chosen an eventful week to arrive in the UK. If you want avoid the football sadness and volcano erupting at Westminster, we have made a list of protests happening in London on Friday that you can get involved with. What’s great about...
Moving Towards Economic Justice
For a number of decades, wealth has been rising across the UK, improving living standards and quality of life. However, the gap between the rich and the poor has been widening at an increasing rate. In the advent of the financial crisis in 2007, the top 1% of society...
ACORN: growing a mighty oak in Bristol
ACORN, the union for private renters, is making anyone involved in Bristol’s housing provision sit up and think. ACORN are not an advocacy group or campaign organisation, although they share many characteristics in common. National Organiser Nick Ballard describes...
8 things ALL funders need to know before funding humanitarian movements
In response to the deteriorating situation faced by displaced people in Calais in the summer of 2015, a group of friends started a hashtag #HelpCalais with the aim of raising £1000 and filling a van of donations to take down to France. Within a week, they had raised...
7 top tips from Help Refugees to a create successful movement
In the summer of 2015, a group of four friends in London decided they wanted to do something to alleviate the worsening situation for refugees in Europe. They started a crowdfunding campaign, with the aim of raising £1,000 and filling a van with donations to take...
Is the Lobbying Act excluding people’s lived experience from our public debate?
This week we have a guest blog from Sue Tibballs, OBE, Chief Executive of the Sheila McKechnie Foundation on their release of a report that shows the impact that the Lobbying Act and a whole host of factors that have given the charity sector pause before heading out...
“As long as people sell their labour, there will always be a need for a labour movement”
We know that trade unions have played an integral role in the labour movement. It was through trade union organising that better pay, better working conditions and equal pay for women were slowly introduced into the factories in the UK. Historically trade unions were...
Where is the labour movement now?
May 1st marked International Workers’ Day. Across the world, protests and celebrations took place to highlight the importance of labourers and the working classes. Remembering the initial fight for the 8-hour day by the labour union movement in the 19th century,...