we want to encourage our supporters to convene a 'Changemakers forum' in their town to explore some of the key themes in the book including the centrality of encouraging your people to find their agency, defining your theory of change, building power, reaching 'take off' in a movement, developing leadership, negotiating settlements, and how the other side will seek to disrupt you. If you are interested in helping convene one of these forums then sign up here.

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These Changemakers forums will not be designed to tell people answers the book poses questions, rather than suggest the authors have all the answers but rather to surface and share the collective knowledge of those in the room. These forums will be an opportunity to ask important questions. The answers will depend on the experience of those who attend and the specific circumstances of the campaigns they are working on. This is one reason why we want a diversity of campaigners in the room. For these forums to work, we will need people from at least three different social justice strands (i.e #BLM, trade unions, environmental groups, LQGBTQ+ etc.) It is the very difference in people's expeirences and practices that will make the discussions fascinating and we hope to move people from 'we would never do something like that' towards, 'that's something we might try'. Effective changemaking is a creative process, and we hope these forums will stimulate people's creativity.

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We can make copies of the book available for £10 to those who book in advance and have some available on the day at full price (£14.99) for those who don’t.

To make this work we need:

• Volunteers prepared to convene a session with a minimum of representatives of three different campaign movements for example, environmental, democratic reform, LGBTQ+, trade union, BLM, #MeToo, animal rights, political groups committed to progressive social change, etc.

• A space, which could be a bookshop, a union hall, or a community centre, where people can sit around tables in cabaret style to participate in a discussion.

• Refreshments (because feeding people pre-disposes them to be nice to each other)

• Wherever possible, a local group or trade union branch, willing to sponsor the cost of the event. We have some, but only very limited, funds to contribute to the success of these events.

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If you are interested in convening a discussion/forum around the ideas explored in the book, then please let us know by completing this form and we will work with you and other volunteers to make this happen in your town/city.​​​​