CAMPAIGN TOOLKIT
The Sound Off For Justice campaign opposes the Government's plans to reform Legal Aid, which are ill-conceived and unfair.
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Sound Off For Justice is looking to galvanise public support for the idea that everyone has the right to be represented by a legal professional in court if they have a deserving case. To ensure the proposed government cuts to Legal Aid don’t go through in their current guise we are asking for your help to make noise now. Click here for more information.
For addtional information contact Emily Taylor on 020 7440 9828 or email partners@soundoffforjustice.org
How you can sound off?
Click here to sign our petition to Justice Secretary, Rt Hon Ken Clarke MP, or here to use the unique protest tool to leave a voicemail for Ken Clarke letting him know what you think of the proposed cuts to Legal Aid. This is the first ever voicemail protest and we need your support to make it work.
Social media channels
Join our Facebook community and invite your network to join too.
Follow us on twitter @soundoffjustice and retweet us.
Spread the word amongst friends and family – Tweet and post from Facebook about the campaign from your personal accounts
Also, please add our twibbon to your avatar.
Example posts are as follows:
Facebook
:
1. Join the fight to protect your right to legal aid and justice. Sound Off For Justice. Don’t be silenced in court. Show your support by liking the Facebook page.
2. We’re Sounding Off For Justice! Don’t be silenced in court. Join the fight to protect your right to legal aid and justice. www.facebook.com/soundoffforjustice
Twitter:
1. Join the fight to protect your right to legal aid and justice. #soundoff For Justice. Don’t be silenced in court. More at @soundoffjustice!
2. We’re Sounding Off For Justice! You can too – just follow @soundoffjustice to show your support! #soundoff
PR
We’d love to work with you to tell your story of how your organisation is going to be affected by the proposed cuts to Legal Aid. Case studies and comments from your organisation can be used to educate and publicise the issues surrounding the campaign.
Blog
We’re looking for opinionated blog posts for our website talking about why the proposed cuts to Legal Aid are both ill-conceived and unfair – we’ll then be pushing promoting this via the Sound Off For Justice website.
Please send 1-3 paragraphs to Natalie@hellounity.com for us to promote.
Public Affairs
A member of our public affairs team would be keen to meet up with you and discuss in more detail how we can work together to target MPs and ministers about the issues surrounding Legal Aid and how the proposed cuts will impact on your organisation and society as a whole. To set up a meeting call Richard Messingham at The Law Society on 020 7320 5858 / 07870 889330.
Sound Off For Justice Website
If you and/or one of your clients are willing to do a 1-2 minute piece to camera on how the cuts will affect you and the people you work with please email your name, contact details and your availability to: Emily@hellounity.com
This content will be used on the SOFJ website.
Digital assets
Digital Pin Badge
Show your support for Sound Off For Justice by placing the Sound Off For Justice logo on your site. We’ve created a digital badge which you can place on your site and which links through to our site. Download it below or drop this code into your site to display the badge and link back to the Sound Off For Justice home page:
<div id=”soundoff_logo”><a href=”http://soundoffforjustice.org/”><img src=”http://soundoffforjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/03/web-pin-badge.png” alt=”” title=”Web Badge for Sound Off” style=”border:0” /></a></div>
- Web Pin Badge - png
Posters
We’ve created a poster that you can download, print and display wherever you like, the more prominent the better! We can also send you printed posters on request.
- Poster - pdf
- Poster 1 - pdf
- Poster 2 - pdf
- Poster 3 - pdf
- Poster 4 - pdf
Email requests to: Emily@hellounity.com
Flyer
Send out our flyer to your supporters. We can also send you printed flyers on request.
- A5 Flyer - pdf
Email requests to: Emily@hellounity.com
Protest placards and banners
If you are planning any protests in front of local courts or government offices we’ve created some placards and banners templates you might like to use.
- Placard - pdf
Email requests to: Emily@hellounity.com
T-shirts
We’ve created a t-shirt template if any of your spokespeople have media interviews relating to the cuts to Legal Aid.
- T-Shirt - pdf
