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Campaign Tools & Resources


How to run a successful campaign - courtesy of CPA & the Chalk Aquifer Alliance
Community Planning Alliance Chair, Rosie Pearson, presents her top tips for a successful campaign.
Originally recorded for the Chalk Aquifer Alliance, it also includes ideas of what can be done to give our environment a better deal in the face of development.
Link: vimeo.com/652360114
​​Positive Communication Toolkit - courtesy of Conservation Optimism
A guide to (re)framing conservation messages to empower action.
Link: conservationoptimism.org/portfolio-items/positive-communication-toolkit
CPA Webinar: How to deal with the press
In this webinar, recorded on October 12th 2021, journalist & writer, Ros Coward, shares her top tips for campaigners dealing with the press.
Learn about the importance of building and maintaining press relationships, of thinking of inventive, relevant and newsworthy angles, and of considering who you seek to influence and what your goal is.
Other useful topics include the five why's of headline writing - who, what, when, where, why - which will prove useful for all those writing press releases, and why local press is just as important (if not more important) than national press.
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=x1upJaOrNjc
Top 10 Tips for Happy Blogging - courtesy of CPA
One of the best ways to help people understand the issues you are campaigning for is to Blog about them. Especially if you can then get people to share your blogs on social media.
But where do you start? And how can you be sure that people will want to read what you write? 
We have several experienced bloggers within the CPA, so we asked them for their top tips. Click the link to read more.
Link: communityplanningalliance.org/uploads/1/3/9/4/139430416/blogtips-feb2022.pdf

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