The event brings together a timely range of experienced participants to explore and share what we need to learn in this year and beyond.
Not your conference-as-usual
Designed around participants
Most events are speaker-focused and organiser chosen sessions. For the Campaigning Forum this model is flipped: participants propose and run the session at the event. Some speakers are still invited to provide “food for thought” and inspiration, but they too participate and learn with everyone else. The result is not only two days of intense learning, but entering a community of learners that evolves with your career and life.
So it is important to know who the other participants are in advance.
You shape the agenda
At the Campaigning Forum, participants’ session proposals are scheduled to make an agenda. Each chooses which to join and share expertise at. The simple but powerful model accelerates learning and builds your learning network. It is key to the event’s success.
Do you know what topics you wish to discuss?
Share your expertise by contributing
Run a workshop, present, 7 minutes or 45 minutes. Participants are the experts and we learn from each other. By hosting a workshop or presentation, you learn because you get feedback from peers. Plus you develop you leadership skills.
What can you share? It can be a campaign your are working on or planning, a failure (or success), a challenge to the sector, etc.
Scenario planning + system archetypes
Business-as-usual is gone. What happens next is unknown. So new to ECF is scenario planning and system archetypes.
Scenarios helps us prepare for adapting quickly to an uncertain future.
System archetypes help us recognise the dynamics in a situation and influence them them strategic interventions.
2025Speakers focus on timely sector issues
Speakers are invited to contribute on specific current and sector issues. in 2026 we’ll be looking into the emerging issues based on sector concerns and applicant input, but the rise of the far right will likey be one of hem
In 2024 & 2025 the speakers topics were:
- 2025: Gentle Protest Limiting polarisation in our protests”
- 2024: Preparing for a likely change in the UK government
- 2023: How to integrate local organising with digital mobilisation, plus learning from inclusion, digital transformation and countering fake news.
Topic continuity
A few key topics run through speakers and discussions (a stream/track).
The focuses in 2026 are
- Implications for a new world era
- Countering disinformation and the far right
- Engaging local communities
Coaching is available
Limited spaces for provate, confidential guidance is available at the 2025 event. You choose your needs. Topics often range from:
- professional: work, goals, resiliance, co-workers, managers
- personal life: confidence, trauma, relationships, kids, relatives
In 2025, 20-minute coaching session by Anna (trained somatic coach and psychotherapist) were available on before 18:00 and during open space and peer workshop times on the two main days.
In 2025 the day one speaker was Sarah P Corbett
Once the day one speaker is decided it will be shared here.
In 2025 the day two speaker was Craig Stewart
Once the day two speaker is decided it will be updated here.
Key event links: Apply | Overview | Participants | Agenda | Sessions | Speakers | Facilitator | Policies
Hello, my name is Anna Raymond, and I am a personal and business coach with a diverse experience including psychology, and various therapeutic approaches.
I am experienced with a range of psychotherapy approaches including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma resolution, body-oriented therapy for holistic healing, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) for mindset and behavior change, and Jungian psychoanalysis for deep self-exploration.
I combine these approaches to support individuals in achieving their personal and professional goals, fostering growth, healing, and self-discovery. I am dedicated to creating a safe and empowering space for my clients to explore their inner world, overcome challenges, and unlock their full potential.
Organised and facilitated by Duane Raymond (FairSay)
Founder of FairSay, the Campaigning Forum event (and community) and active in campaigning and digital for over two decades
Duane organised the first Campaigning Forum event (originally the eCampaigning Forum or ECF) in 2002 in the role of Oxfam’s first digital campaigning manager. He wanted an event that was focused on his needs as a digital campaigning practitioner in this emerging field.
He knew no speaker would know as much as his peers, so he organised anyone he could identify as fellow digital campaigning pioneers to work to join the event. The open space model was the perfect fit and the event has inspired many other events around the world.
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