Enough is Enough campaign actions

Only the Minister with responsibility for the strategy, Jeff Rooker, can set the kind of high level targets that are needed to form the foundations of an effective strategy.

Give your support

1. ATTEND THE DEMONSTRATION AT CASTLE BUILDINGS

A total of 206 organisations have signed the open letter to Lord Rooker. Attend the rally at Castle Buildings when the letter will be presented to him.

Thursday 22 September at 11.00am
Castle Buildings, Stormont (use the Stoney Road entrance)

It is vital that as many people from as many organisations as possible attend this event.

2. EMAIL JEFF ROOKER

NICVA has requested a meeting with the Jeff Rooker. Send him an email to encourage him to meet with us.

Jeff Rooker

You can notify NICVA that you have taken action by adding enoughisenough@nicva.org to the cc field of your email.

When NICVA requested a meeting with his predecessor during the last consultation, the meeting was blocked. Sending him an email could prevent this happening again.

Ideas to include in your email (26Kb)

3. EMAIL YOUR MP AND MLA

Tell them your concerns, request that they ask a question in Westminster or ask them to publicly support the campaign.

Ideas for your message (32Kb)

Contact details: (1) MPs (2) MLAs (95Kb)

If you are not sure who your MP is, you can look it up at politics.guardian.co.uk/people/browse

4. EMAIL OUR MEPs

Tell Northern Ireland's MEPs that you are concerned that despite its claims, the draft anti-poverty strategy does not follow the European National Action Plan for Social Inclusion.

MEP email addresses:

jallister@europarl.eu.int jnicholson@europarl.eu.int bdebrun@europarl.eu.int

Draft letter you can adapt (32Kb)

5. SEND A PRESS RELEASE

Contact your local paper and tell them about the campaign and your involvement in it.

Draft press release (24Kb)

6. SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

Spread the word and stay involved in the campaign by receiving Enough is Enough email updates. Send an email to enoughisenough@nicva.org

What NICVA will do

1. NICVA is talking to journalists and academics to encourage them to run stories about the campaign and poverty in Northern Ireland.
2. We will contact the leaders of each political party to tell them the sector's concerns over the strategy.
3. The Westminster NI Affairs Committee will visit Northern Ireland in October. NICVA will invite them to meet the sector to discuss the issue.