I spent yesterday at a workshop for staff on our Letter to the Future campaign - it was fun!
Numbers of signatures are building well - although there is a long way to go to overtake the bird of prey pledge which is now over 190,000!
One comment we have had on Letter to the Future is that it is a bit like motherhood and apple pie. Well yes it is - but if we don't stand up and speak out about the important things in life then we may lose them! If hundreds of thousands of people support our Letter to the Future campaign then we may be able to persuade politicians to be nice to wildlife in their spending and cutting plans!
I am thinking of launching the Apple Pie campaign - I bet if we got hundreds of thousands of signtures on that there would be more apple pie in our lives too!
Well Mark I guess you all realise at the RSPB The Letter To The Future campaign is much more difficult to support than Bird Of Prey Pledge because you can be for or against the latter in simple terms but the former we have already found some parts that we would find difficult to support and we have perhaps had to think we support it but we feel perhaps only 90% and I suppose this is often the case with campaigns.