Changemaking Tools
Here is a collection of general changemaking or campaigning tools, tactics and activist training organisations to help get your campaign off the ground - from podcasts by our own activists from campaigns at Changemakers Lab, to external resources by other organisations on organising petitions, engaging local media, and developing effective messaging. Something missing from here? Fill in this form to add a resource!
Freedom to Learn Podcast
Recordings from the #FreedomtoLearn2020 festival, featuring activists from Changemakers Lab and youth-led campaign Not a Trend! Click here for the full list of episodes.
Are you aged 14-18 and passionate about campaigning for change in the education system?
The Changemakers Lab 2021 training and campaign programme is now underway, but fill in this form if you would like to get involved in Change Collective, Changemakers Lab or other upcoming projects.
Petitions allow you to explain to the world what you’re doing, for members of the public to show their support quickly and easily, and those together give you the good start to achieving the change you want. A resource from campaign organisation Campaign Bootcamp.
How to run your own meetings online
Running your events online isn’t rocket science - and the problems you will face and their solutions will be different depending on what you want to organise. From setting up a digital reading group, to running a panel discussion, political education organisation The World Transformed has put together this short toolkit to get your online events started.
How to make the most of local media
Media coverage is an important part of campaigning as it can put pressure on a campaign target, educate the public, shape a narrative and influence government policy. A resource by Global Justice Now, Campaign Against Arms Trade and Common Weal.
TikTok activism: how to change the world in 15 seconds
Learn how teens around the world have been using short, shareable social media videos to deal with the big issues affecting them.
Getting started with online training and facilitation
A resource by Training For Change on adjusting in-person training and facilitation tools for organising and delivering engaging and effective trainings and meetings online and over the phone.
Leadership is not about hierarchies - it’s about enabling others to act. A resource from NEON on how to build collective power through collaborative leaership.
The Twelve Habits of Successful Change-Makers
What can we learn about how social change is happening today that can strengthen civil society’s future efforts?
Living Change: Lessons from innovative changemakers from the RSA (Royal Society for the Arts)
Organizing: People, Power, Change
This guide aims to support you in developing your capacity for effective community organising.
Campaign Strategy Planning Template
This planning template prompts you to apply a number of different campaign strategy, community organising, and civil resistance concepts and tools.
Phoenix Education and Change Collective’s own campaign training programme, available to UK students age 14-18. Here you can learn how to start your own campaign to fight for social justice and campaign change in the education system. Applications for the 2021 programme have technically closed but will still be considered on a rolling basis!
A youth-led, non-partisan charity on a mission to empower young people to participate in democracy. They run Democracy Café events around the UK as well as seeking to represent the views of young people to stakeholders and decision makers at a local, national and international level.
Led by young people for young people, they offer creative services from zine creation to comic book workshops designed to support and amplify the often diminished voices of marginalised young people aged 8 - 25 in Liverpool.
Young people have the power to make change in their community. Stand up to bullying as an Anti-Bullying Ambassador or say thank you to an inspiring young person by nominating them for a Diana Award.
The New Economy Organisers Network - a network of organisers from across grassroots campaigns, trade unions and civil society - has an expansive toolkit full of free organising pandemic resources.
A fast growing community of young people using their creativity to change society.
Provide young people around the world with the training, mentors and funding to turn their ideas into action and lead social change in their communities.
A 6 week programme for 16-18 year olds helping you to learn how to get the attention of those in charge and tell them the changes you want them to make.
A charity dedicated to ensuring that people most impacted by injustice are leading campaigns that affect their lives. This site has loads of practical resources for getting started with campaigning!
The Children and Young People’s Empowerment Project in Sheffield is a charity dedicated to raising the voices of young people and giving them the confidence, influence and platform to shape their world.
A place where young people can Get Support, Take Action, Be Heard and Celebrate their efforts.
Yes! The Youth Empowerment Scheme
Founded by Amy Meek, youth activist since the age of 12, YES! helps to educate, empower and mobilise young people to take action.
Centre for Peaceful Solutions
Mediation in Schools