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Network Sheffield SPEAK are doing a clothes swap event to raise money for Assist (local charity that provides support for asylum seekers) and a petition to 'ask local MPs what they're doing about the refugee crisis' Norwich SPEAK are focusing on the climate campaign over the coming year, and are making a strategic plan for the group – we’re impressed! Lancaster SPEAK have got in contact with our sister network Fale in Brazil to work more with them on their pesticides campaign. l a e p Ap peak give s esent a pr Put your money where your mouth is and make your giving go further for a just world. Giving to charity is wonderful and necessary – but charity treats the symptoms of injustice; campaigning to change unjust situations tackles the cause, doing more to free people from poverty than our direct gifts to charity ever could! It doesn’t take much money to run a campaign movement like SPEAK, especially considering the amazing gains our campaign successes 16 Norw ich Lanca ster win over injustice. We’d love to be able to disengage completely from money. But – it does take some. We want to be able to carry on making campaign resources like Pray & Post cards, pay our paid support workers a living wage, run inspiring events for you, visiting groups to share skills across the Network, and more. Could you afford to make a single, or better still, a regular gift to SPEAK? £5 a month from you would make a surprising amount of difference to what we’re able to achieve together! If you can, please fill in and send back the enclosed Loudspeaker card; if you can’t, please consider passing it on to someone else who could, or perhaps making an appeal at your church. u for thank yo support your image credit: ‘global warming’ Created by Botho Willer from the noun project Sheffi eld /News