Confirmed facilitators & workshops

Shilpa Shah is a social and environmental justice activist. Over the last 6 years she has developed ways to better engage people beyond the traditional knowledgeable, prosperous and active campaign audiences. She created the Akashi Project, with environmental charity Cambridge Carbon Footprint, working with Black and Minority Ethnic and faith groups on Climate Change.

She now runs workshops on outreach for all sorts of cool organisations like P&P and also works on the Rights and Justice team at Friends of the Earth.

Focusing on indigenous land rights he’s worked all over the world covering topics as varied as the demise of herders in Africa, GM crops in India and the Rwandan genocide.

His images have been widely published in the world’s press. He is a campaigning photojournalist having worked for some years alongside George Monbiot.

More of his pictures can be seen at arbib.org – and portmeadow.org and his most recent work was the publication of a book project documenting the Solsbury hill road protest.

Symon Hill is an activist, writer and trainer who works with campaigning groups to develop their media engagement.

He spent three years overseeing media relations for the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and was CAAT’s media spokesperson during their legal challenge against the government over Saudi arms deals.He is now associate director of the thinktank Ekklesia and writes about issues including peace, activism and the role of religion in society.

Guardian Profile

Seeds for Change is a collective of activist-trainers. They are experienced activists who have taken part in many direct action campaigns from protest against road building to GM crop decontaminations, from actions on military convoys to blockades of nuclear power stations.

Drawing on their experience they support fellow activists to build skills and confidence in taking effective action and working together co-operatively to make change.

Liam is a Learning and Development Officer (Campaigning) at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and is the project coordinator of Louder.org.uk, leading on the team’s work in multimedia and e-campaigning.*

Before joining NCVO, he spent much of his youth in Toronto, Canada, inhaling tear gas at international trade summits, mobilising teenagers to fight exorbitant tuition fees and getting people in his neighbourhood to make the lives of local neo-Nazis generally unbearable.

Since then, he has come to England and learned that change happens in many different ways… Supporting community leaders to develop projects and small organisations at the Scarman Trust, and working voluntarily with community groups to secure funding and facilitate partnerships provides the context for Liam’s current role at Campaigning Effectiveness.

James Lloyd is the Liberal Democrats climate change advisor and ex-P&P campaigns manager.

He’ll be giving the low-down on the latest climate change political situation and explain just how the science works.