Cranking into gear

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Sunday, 8 March 2009, 17:34

It’s been another busy weekend of meetings and planning, with HOPE not hate speakers attending events across the country. Yorkshire HOPE not hate held a meeting in Leeds on Saturday, which attracted several new people from across the county and a number of Days of Action were agreed. These will be announced shortly.

Matthew Collins spoke at the launch of Uttoxeter HOPE not hate on Friday night and then yesterday he went to an event in Worksop to commemorate the 25^th anniversary of the beginning of the Miners Strike (

).

For my part, I managed to stay London-based. On Friday we had another meeting with the Daily Mirror to finalise plans for their involvement in the HOPE not hate campaign.

With the election just under 13 weeks ago, I've been putting the final preparations to our campaign plan and over the next week or so I'll be meeting all of our key partners to explain the strategy and discuss how they can get involved.

Tomorrow we take on two new members of staff, one in London and one in the North West, with hopefully another couple joining us in the next few weeks. There is a lot to do but the HOPE not hate campaigning is certainly cranking into gear.