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Recently I had one of those moments of insight that just made me stop. Over the last 18 months I’ve spent a lot of time developing my practical approach to campaigning, and in particular trying to distil it all into three tools and one wraparound approach. And I have...

Over the last month or so I have doing some new video shorts - I am trying to distill my practical campaigning tools into a series of short videos. They will all be included in my forthcoming new pamphlet on three practical tools and a wrap-around approach to help...

Recently I’ve been doing some work for a charity tackling elements of child poverty in the north of England. It has been a fascinating piece of work so far as up until now they have focused on delivering a direct response to the challenges that they faced, but now the...

I am just back from Rome where I was facilitating a workshop for a global campaign, and this experience prompted me to reflect on the reality of trying to campaign across the globe. It was so good both to be back in the eternal city and to have the chance to spend...

Recently I was able to catch up with a former colleague of mine with whom I worked a lot in the past in Brussels, and he had recently secured a role running an NGO back in his home in Eastern Europe. His new team is keen do a lot of work including delivery on...

After a break of 10 years, I am delighted to have re-started my regular blog for the Right Ethos. My first such blog was inspired by a recent meeting with Nazek Ramadan, the inspirational director at Migrant Voice, when she encouraged me to reflect on my key learning...

As we enter 2026, I am excited to be in a position to promote my latest initiative! My latest initiative is to update my book Campaigning for Change, which I published back in 2017. This was my first attempt at self-publishing, and I used Amazon as a platform to sell...

Back in January, I wrote that my busy schedule showed no signs of abating and that was certainly true. If anything, it almost became too busy and I tried to do too many things because I was so passionate to try and make things happen! I’m sure that we’ve all been...

2024 was a very busy year for me – from the last update in July, my full portfolio of interesting assignments continued – now taking me into 2025 and shows no signs, for now, of slowing down. My work for Detention Forum, a network of over 50 independent organisations...

It has been a while since I last did a blog post on this site mainly because things have been somewhat busy for me! My work at the Detention Forum, a network of over 50 independent organisations working together to challenge the use of immigration detention in the UK,...

I have had contact with the London Refugee Community Organisations’ (RCO) Advocacy Forum for years, in their different guises, ever since I was working at the Refugee Council back in 2007-11. It is such an important initiative bringing together refugee led community...

After a very busy year in 2022, last year, whilst still full, wasn’t quite as manic as the previous year thankfully, and I worked on a number of diverse and interesting assignments such as: Continuing to support Detention Forum, and it was exciting to see this growing...

I’ve written many times before outlining some very simple tools, which can drive your campaigning practice It has been interesting for me at the Detention Forum to be able to slowly put some of these tools into action for this network of over 50 organisations. I would...

Last month I had the privilege of re-connecting with the Voices Network at the British Red Cross. The Voices network is a collective of refugees and people seeking asylum. Together, they speak out about issues that affect them. As people with lived experience, Voices...

I've been really delighted to be working with the impressive Shpresa programme this year on a new leadership course for migrant community leaders. We launched it in Parliament last month, and we are now half-way through the first course. The first few sessions were...

Well, after a slow and relaxing summer, things have really picked up for me this autumn! I am continuing in my role at Detention Forum, but I am also supporting the Refugee Council in the UK for a few months as their interim head of advocacy. I am also supporting...