# Labourspace.com attracts 15 campaign groups in first month

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/11/12/labourspacecom-attracts-15-campaign-groups-first-month/
- Published: 2006-11-12T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Labourspace.com, the Labour Party’s new website that encourages people, organisations
and community groups to post details of their campaigns “to a network of people 
that want to listen and help where possible”, has generated just 15 campaign listings
in its first month.**

The site has attracted “thousands of people”, although this week’s most popular 
campaign has secured only 312 votes. Indeed, only eight organisations have listed
their campaign under this month’s theme of health. No organisation has yet posted
under the prosperity and work month’s theme.

Still, such low levels of participation by organisations and individuals could make
it easier for an organisation to get its message heard.

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Once an organisation has posted its campaign details on the site, it is encouraged
to persuade its supporters to vote for it online and to add their comments to the
issues raised.

At the end of each month Labour Party chair Hazel Blears MP will choose one local
and one national campaign from those listed and report on it to her fellow Cabinet
members. She will also raise the key issues with a relevant Labour minister.

For the first six months the website will have a monthly theme. ‘Health’ runs until
15 November, ‘Creating sustainable communities’ from 16 November to 16 December 
2006, ‘Crime, justice, citizenship and equality’ from 7 December to 31 December 
2006, ‘Education and skills’ from 2 January to 31 January 2007, ‘Britain in the 
world’ from 1 February to 28 February 2007, and ‘Prosperity and work’ from 1 March
to 31 March 2007.

Labourspace.com is part of Labour’s new “Let’s talk” initiative, designed to generate“
frank and open debate about the challenges the British public face each day”. The
debate, say Labour, will be fed into the Labour Party’s policy-making process.

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