Media coverage of SBS campaign
Just a quick update, the Southall Black Sisters campaign has received more coverage in the New Statesman and Guardian too. Good on them. I’m racking my brain to think of ways to affect this campaign further too. Any ideas?
The women running the Facebook group for this are doing a stellar job.
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A joint statement from other well known voluntary groups? A campaign on websites of the above voluntary groups?
Seems to me when you’re in trouble you turn to your friends for support, time they stepped up to the plate.
Seems like a good job already. Compared to all the other voluntary groups who are also facing funding cuts, they are getting way more attention. Therefore something to consider might perhaps be ways of simultaneously helping out other voluntary groups whose funding is also being cut? So possibly, inviting groups who are also in the same boat – to come forward and talk about their situations too, and it could be like a spread on the lot of them, and the commonalities of their situations.
Other voluntary groups are no doubt busy trying to save their own skins, and underfunded as they all are, presumably trying to do their own work. i meet so many small groups who are all DESPERATE for some funding, and think that coming from a larger charity, I can offer them something.
its good for journalists and media types to do a bit of awareness raising. But Really of course what we need is a collaborative model, where we are not all running after the same pots of money, and relying less on public funds.
Why don’t we get as many sites as possible to put up articles and to e-mail Ealing, as well as the Guardian, the middle market papers, facebook, and weblogs that lots of people read?
I like the idea of getting organisations together to collaborate. Are there any legal problems with doing so? That sort of thing used to endanger charity status.
I also think that it is important to put pressure on David Cameron and Boris Johnson on this one, so that they highlight the issue and react to their party’s behaviour in Ealing or take the consequences.
Thanks for promoting this campaign. I came across the SBS problems yesterday and have been writing to everyone whom I can think of since.