What makes a 'hot' campaign?

 Great campaigns present their cause or issue from a fresh perspective, create moments of drama and spontaneity, and convert general concern into concrete, cumulative action. 

We’ve compiled a hotlist of campaigns which show these principles in action and which are setting new agendas for public action and engagement.

  • On 13 October, Climate Rush marked the centenary of the Suffragette Rush (when more than 40 suffragettes were arrested for attempting to enter Parliament).
  • On 5 October, more than 10,000 people took part in the largest ever rally to end child poverty in the UK.  Keep The Promise, staged by the Campaign to End Child Poverty, is calling on the Government to keep its promise of halving child poverty by 2010 and ending it by 2020. 
  • NO2ID is a single-issue group focussed on “the threat to liberty and privacy posed by the rapid growth of the database state, of which "ID cards" are the most visible part.” 
  • I Count is the public facing campaign of the Stop Climate Chaos coalition of over 80 environment and development NGOs.  The campaign combines lifestyle change with online lobbying and social networking,   and is providing a powerful new platform for coordinated public campaigning on climate change.
  • Time to Change combines community projects with mass participation events, campaigning and training in an ambitious new programme to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems. 
  • The Control Arms campaign, which calls for an Arms Trade Treaty to ease the suffering caused by irresponsible transfers of conventional weapons and munitions is one of the most respected and focused long-running international campaigns. 
  • Ctrl.Alt.Shift is Christian Aid’s new ‘user generated’ campaign, enabling young people to initiate campaigns on global development issues that they care about.
  • The Face Equality Campaign launched by Changing Faces aims to raise awareness of the 'facial prejudice' and resulting 'facial discrimination' that people with disfigurements face every day.