Campaign Collective worked with the Warm This Winter campaign and End Fuel Poverty Coalition to keep Britain’s broken energy system top of mind throughout the Easter long weekend. Our expert campaigners used a combination of tactics, including new research and hijacking existing news hooks to ensure a steady stream of hard-hitting coverage for our clients – over 300 pieces across four days, including 20 chunky national hits.  Campaign Collective Founder Member and coordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, Simon Francis, kicked things off on Good Friday with interviews on Sky News Rad ..read more

Campaign Collective member, Nicola Putnam, has over 20 years’ experience managing communications in the public and private sectors. As one of our experts in message creation, Nicola helps organisations develop the right messaging to take their campaign from good to great.  How does she do this? Nicola shared with us her top five tips for crafting clear, impactful messaging: “Your objectives are set, your audiences mapped, channels identified, and you know what you are going to say. You’re ready to roll with your new brand or campaign, but will it really have the impact you anticipate? “As ..read more

Nancy Platts has worked in communications and campaigns for more than 30 years, gaining extensive experience in charities, the trade union movement and the public sector. Since joining Campaign Collective, Nancy has delivered a number of public affairs campaigns. She has also worked in Parliament, twice been a parliamentary candidate and was, until recently, a local councillor, including a year as leader of Brighton and Hove City Council.   With 2024 set to be a busy year for politics, we asked Nancy to share her top five tips for effective lobbying:     &nbs ..read more

Campaign Collective is supporting a new campaign, launched today, calling for Scotland to declare itself the world’s first rewilding nation. The Rewilding Nation Charter is urging people from all walks of life to sign and ask the Scottish Government to commit to nature recovery across 30% of land and sea. Scotland is currently one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, coming in at 212 out of 240 countries and territories for the state of its nature. In addition, 11% of its species face extinction. “Climate breakdown and nature loss mean we face an unprecedented threat to our way ..read more

To celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, we spoke to Susanna Daniels, Chief Executive Officer at Melanoma Focus, about her experiences of leading a high-profile charity.  Susanna, an oncology pharmacist by background, has been at the helm of Melanoma Focus for over three years and is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of melanoma, the 5th most common cancer in the UK.  What inspired you to move from a pharmaceutical background and pursue a leadership role in the charity sector? “I was the lead cancer pharmacist in a teaching hospital in London and transformed the wa ..read more

It’s National Careers Week (4-9 March 2024) and we’ve been thinking about how we can help young people considering a career in communications and campaigning.  Campaign Collective members each have more than 10 years’ experience in a range of PR, communications and campaigning skills. But each of us has had a unique journey, which shows there can be many paths into a career in this area.  We asked our members to share their own journey, which we hope will inspire and inform budding campaigners: Sarah Colombini, Campaign Collective founder member, always knew she wanted to pursue a ca ..read more

Today, 16 February, marks Campaign Collective’s 8th birthday.  Founded in 2016 by Sarah Colombini, Simon Francis and Heather Rogers, Campaign Collective has brought together a talented group of experienced communications professionals who share a passion for supporting charities, social enterprises and not-for-profit organisations with high quality marketing, communications advice and PR support.  Over the years, Members have worked on multiple award-winning campaigns, locally, nationally and internationally – from some of the smallest charities to the most high profile organisations ..read more

Campaign Collective partnered with HR consultant Rachel Meakins to create, define and deliver an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for life beyond crisis charity, Hestia, to help them retain and attract new employees. Starting as an internal communications brief, the project engaged with Hestia employees from all services and areas, to listen to what it is to work for Hestia, what they like, want and need to stay and grow together. Sarah Colombini, Founder Member of Campaign Collective commented:  “We wanted it to be authentic and honest in attracting the right candidates to be part o ..read more

The Children’s Charities Coalition has released new data today, which highlights that children feel politicians don’t understand their lives and aren’t listening to them as the country prepares for a General Election. The charities surveyed 1,000 children and 1,000 adults and the results from children found that:  62% of UK children think that politicians don’t understand the issues that affect children and young people today.  Almost three quarters (73%) don’t feel that children are listened to by politicians.  66% don’t feel they have a say when it comes to decisions politici ..read more

UK cancer survival rates lag significantly behind other countries according to research shared today by the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT). The Taskforce, which represents six less survivable cancers: lung, liver, brain, oesophageal, pancreatic and stomach, with an average five-year survival rate of just 16%, has released the findings on Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day to highlight the loss of life caused by this deadly cancer gap.  The research is based on a new analysis of existing data and the world survival rankings of cancers of the lung, liver, brain, oesophagus, pan ..read more