Four principles for campaigners working with a new government
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Presentation slides from a webinar which took place on 23 August 2016. Watch the webinar recording: https://youtu.be/zEPGTN3pXNY
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Four principles for campaigners working with a new government
- 1. FOUR PRINCIPLES FOR CAMPAIGNERS WORKING WITH A NEW GOVERNMENT CHRIS WALKER 23 AUGUST 2016
- 2. AIMS OF THIS PRESENTATION Explore four principles of working with a new government Introduced to NCVO’s Guide to Good Campaigning Consider the opportunities to engage with ex-ministers and other prominent backbenchers Understand the pros and cons of governmental change. 2
- 3. WHAT DOES GOVERNMENTAL CHANGE MEAN FOR CHARITIES • New opportunities to engage and build relationships • Opportunities to revisit old policy decisions BUT • Potential loss of good relationships/political capital • Loss of ministerial expertise may mean you have to start again from the basics
- 4. FOUR PRINCIPLES FOR WORKING WITH A NEW GOVERNMENT 1. Well thought through is better than immediate 2. Focus on your expertise, and how it fits with the new agenda 3. Have clear specific actions that new ministers can take 4. Enable links with your beneficiaries
- 5. 1. WELL THOUGHT THROUGH IS BETTER THAN IMMEDIATE By © User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35619683
- 6. 2. FOCUS ON YOUR EXPERTISE AND HOW IT FITS WITH THE NEW AGENDA By HM Government - http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/government- structure/, OGL,
- 7. KEY ASPECTS OF THE MAY AGENDA • Social reform put at the heart of the government’s agenda • A return to traditional Conservative values? • Opportunities for public service reform, but potential challenges
- 8. CHANGES IN DEPARTMENTS AND APPROACH • OCS has moved to DCMS • Department for Energy and Climate Change scrapped and moved into expanded BIS – concern for environmental charities • A Dfid-sceptic secretary of state
- 9. 3. HAVE CLEAR, SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT NEW MINISTERS CAN TAKE By xlibber, Margaret Thatcher’s Dispatch Box, CC BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/xlibber/11030430605
- 10. 4. ENABLE LINKS WITH YOUR BENEFICIARIES By DFID - UK Department for International Development - Theresa May and Justine Greening speaking at #YouthForChange, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38901202
- 11. NOT JUST ABOUT MINISTERS • Special advisers – list starting to come together • Senior civil servants – a number of key officials have new jobs or new responsibilities • Officials – provide a degree of stability and certainty, and the best way to find out about departmental changes and new priorities
- 12. NEW GOVERNMENTS PRESENT NEW PARLIAMENTARY OPPORTUNITIES • Former ministers • Select committee changes • New backbench dynamics • Opportunities to work on long-term projects and campaigns
- 13. TWO LABOUR PARTIES? • No imminent split likely, but in parliament Labour will function as two parties while Corbyn remains leader • Important to engage with different wings of parties to improve the chance of your message getting through • Lords even better for amendments than normal
- 14. UPCOMING TRAINING/EVENTS (2016) • Campaigning conference – 6 September • Leadership in Campaigns - 6 October • Developing a winning campaign strategy and plan - 14 October • Certificate in campaigning – starts 18 October • Influencing parliament – 25 November • Influencing select committees – 9 December READING NCVO Good Guide to Campaigning and Influencing
- 15. NCVO champions the voluntary sector and volunteer movement to create a better society. We connect, represent and support over 11,500 voluntary sector member organisations, from the smallest community groups to the largest charities. This helps our members and their millions of volunteers make the biggest difference to the causes they believe in. • Search for NCVO membership • Visit www.ncvo.org.uk/join • Email membership@ncvo.org.uk
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- The first principle Lots of organisations send welcome letters – you should do this if there are particular new ministers you want to work with, but I wouldn’t get too hung up on how quickly these are done. New ministers get inundated with these, so more important to be clear about your vision of the relevant policy area, and what you can offer to help them achieve this. You may well have got to the stage now where you’ve made your relevant introductions
- It possibly seems an obvious thing to say, but I think the key thing to think about when working with a new government is understanding what it is that your organisation can uniquely offer to them. So, on one level that means understanding where your expertise lies, and then being able to apply it to the government’s agenda
- Having just talked about the need to work out how you can help deliver the new government’s agenda, I thought it would be worth taking a look at what we know so far…
- I’ve already talked about focusing on where your expertise can be of use to government, but the other thing to remember is that people in government are not necessarily that interested in you, but in who you represent. As charities ultimately we’re representing our beneficiaries and we need to be able to demonstrate to a new government, that when we talk to them we are providing a voice for those beneficiaries and that we are able to facilitate direct contact between them. So, for NCVO we represent charities, so we need to demonstrate to government that we are able to speak on behalf of charities, and we want the government to think of us when they want to talk to charities. So whatever bit of the charity sector you represent, do think about how you can enable those links.