If you invite them #3

Update on MPs who've signed:

Sarah Teather MP, Brent East - SIGNED
Dawn Butler MP, Brent South - SIGNED
Vincent Cable MP, Twickenham - SIGNED
Susan Kramer MP, Richmond - SIGNED [New, 01/08/2006]
Lynne Featherstone MP, Hornsey & Wood Green - to be approached by Tottenham group
Meg Hillier MP, Hackney South & Shoreditch - to be approached by Hackney & Tower Hamlets group
[NEW] Andrew Slaughter MP, Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush - to be approached by Hammersmith & Fulham

Current priorities:

• Contact local groups to get an update.
• Identify MPs not covered by local groups and initiate contact.
• Give update to Head Office.
• Identify support from Head Office Media Team. One officer was nominated for support, and we emailed him in the first week of July, with no reply. A follow-up email produced "out of office until 21st August". This puts us past our PR campaign design deadline. We're somewhat disappointed by this poor customer service.
  
• Make contact with Evening Standard, get them interested in the project.
• Possibly make contact with Time Out, see if they're interested.
• Make entry on BBC Action Network.
• Brainstorm with Camden FoE PR Campaign.
  

Because we want to publish this letter in late September or early October, pretty much slapbang in the middle of the Big Month Big Lobby and a month before Parliament re-opens, we feel we need to get the regional press on board now. This allows us time to get them used to the idea, to do their own research, and meet and explain the project objectives.

Dropping the letter in the middle of that month also gives the campaign a big boost in publicity, which will hopefully help local groups in making appointments around the country - for where London leads, other places follow.

Coming soon...

The first "London Letter" from a guest writer.