A free, practical collection of toolkits, resources and guides we’ve written for organisers to accompany our courses on everything from organisational strategy to operations and media work.
This toolkit is a guide to identifying what’s happening with your culture - what’s going well, where that comes from and how can you have more of that, and what are the elements you don’t want, why have they arisen, and how can you create change.
This toolkit is a guide to the key strategic questions you need to answer in order to write and develop a good strategy. It contains exercises, practices and ideas and you should leave with a full strategy.
This toolkit is all about how structure and operations can best serve your purpose and strategy and support your organisational culture by centring your values and building anti-oppressive and liberatory thought and practice into your foundations.
A guide to public opinion polling. Why and when it is useful, the limitations and how to write a polling question.
A guide to focus groups. Why and when they are useful, a round up of different options and how to use the results.
Focus group 101 session run by Jane Cairn from Survation.
The guide covers key press officer skills such as writing killer press releases, using the phone, preparing spokespeople for broadcast and much much more.
This guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into French, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into Ukrainian, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into Arabic, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into Bengali, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into Bihasa, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into Spanish, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into Portuguese, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
Translated into Japanese, this guide covers the essentials you need to do a great broadcast media interview, including how to prepare effectively, what you need to think about during the interview and how to look after yourself afterwards.
This report - commissioned by NEON, funded by Lankelly Chase, and produced by Align - looks at how people in the housing, migration and climate movements in the UK, responded to the COVID-19 pandemic (produced in May 2020).
This report looks at how the ‘culture wars’ are a reactionary backlash constructed to distract us, and how to respond to this.
This report explores the problem we are facing, how we understand the climate movement, what shared barriers there are, and what common ground there might be for collaborative action in the movement.
This report explores the problem we are facing, how we understand the health movement, what shared barriers there are, and what common ground there might be for collaborative action in the health movement.
This report explores the problem we are facing, how we understand the hostile environment movement, what shared barriers there are, and what common ground there might be for collaborative action in the movement.
This report explores the problem we are facing, how we understand the housing movement, what shared barriers there are, and what common ground there might be for collaborative action in the movement.