Make your Mark - Campaign Report

VSO ran Make Your Mark to coincide with the 2010 UK General Election. The campaign was aimed at engaging voters with their local parliamentary candidates, and candidates with development issues. 

What happened?

Over the two months that Make Your Mark ran campaigners exchanged emails with some 724 parliamentary candidates across 235 constituencies, keeping development firmly on the parties’ political agenda.

Members of the VSO Cumbria Supporter Group opted for a more traditional approach, hand-writing letters to their candidates in constituencies across the Lake District.

Returned Volunteers and other VSO supporters organised a series of five community debates across the country, giving themselves and hundreds of other voters a chance to directly quiz their candidates on their international development policies.

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VSO also supported some of our Diaspora partner organisations in organising two more debates, one of which attracted such names in development politics as Gareth Thomas and Lord Avesbury.

Once again we’d like to thank everyone who took part and made Make your Mark such a success. We hope you’ll join us again next time around!

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