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How do turn an issue I care about into a campaign?
 
You may haveset up an online groupbecause you were getting ripped off. You may haveinvited people to a campaign sessionso people can live better off. You may havewritten to your MP to support the campaign you care about the most. You may have pitched up your   tent to prevent the world turning to toast.You may have stayed at a shelter tohelp the homeless. You may have gone down the beach to clean up the mess. You may havetaken   part in a flashmobto show people how exploitation of young people at work just isn’t right. You may havemarched through the streets  to reclaim the night.You may have been a street captainspreading hope not hate
 
 , you may have interviewed the wild and wonderful to instigate debate. Youmay have got into a bath of baked beans toraise money for comic relief…Or you may not have got involved with any of these.
Whether you’ve been involved in organizing before or not, if you’ve opened this game, you’re probably curious about how to campaignand maybe even fired up about an issue you’d like to campaign on. There is no right or wrong way on how to turn an issue you careabout into a campaign – just look at the examples above and you can see all the different and exciting ways people have gone about it.If you want to find out what issues really matter to young people where you are, how you can develop an online campaign, how you cancommunicate it and how you can get others to support your campaign, start playing the game!Get in touch to tell us how you’ve played the game, made it even better and any other ideas you have about bringing people together toturn issues into campaigns.It’s time to take back our future, it’s time for you to take back your communities.
Developed byNoel Hatch -
 
noel.hatch1@gmail.com
 
 
How to play
This game can be played as below or as part of a “campaign camp” (contact
noel.hatch1@gmail.com
for more details).
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This game
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is best played in small groups, so if there’s more than six in your group, split people up into groups of 4-6 people. If you are a small group, do it all together!
2.
Choose one of the exercises in
Map people’s needs
to do with your group/s and then
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Discuss the groups’ findings using the flipchart to stimulate the debate.
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What do people think? What seems to be the most recurring issue? Can the group see any links between the people or needs?
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Vote on which issue your group/s want to campaign on
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Get your group/s to choose from a pack of “tool cards” below to address the issue, but there’s a catch:
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Your group will have a budget of 25 points they can use and they have to use at least one tool from each section(highlighted in bold). Each “tool card” has a number at the bottom – this indicates how many points the tool “costs”.
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Your group can add its own “tool card” if they have an idea for the campaign. If so, ask them how much money, time andskills their ideas will require out of a scale of 1-3 points.
Title of the tool
Description of the tool. A tool you can try out.
Number of points
4.
Give each group a timeline to pinpoint what they are going to do over the course of the campaign.
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The game was inspired by the social media gameby David Wilcox
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