Brain Tumour Action Lobbying Guidelines
Please adhere to these guidelines when using our online lobbying facilities.
- Only use BTA’s online lobbying facilities for the purpose of contacting your own local politicians, and only use them for BTA-led lobbying and for no other purpose.
- “Your own local politicians” refers to those politicians elected to serve the area in which your home address falls. Please do not use our facilities to contact politicians elected to serve the area in which your work address falls.
- Please use your own words when contacting a politician using our online facilities. We can provide guidelines for you on a particular topic, but if you express them in words of your own choosing the impact is much the greater.
- Courtesy is essential when addressing politicians. A calm and professional approach is core to our public image and to our success.
- Please do not “over-lobby.” Multiple messages on the same subject from the same person only lose impact for others. Single messages from many different people obtain the greatest impact. At most, contact any given politician no more than once per month, unless the politician has expressly invited correspondence.
- For the most part, please stick to responding to BTA Lobbying Alerts, and respond to them within the date specified in the alert.
Thank you for reading these guidelines, and thank you above all for the crucial part you are playing in creating the political conditions for change for patients with brain tumours!
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January 4, 2010
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