Freedom Action Cards
Reusable tools for youth groups, students, communities and workplaces. Use the card you need and keep the method simple.
1. One issue. One audience. One clear ask.
Before any campaign, event or public message, write down: the issue; the audience; what you want them to know, do or change; the evidence or current Freedom source; the route to help; and the one thing you will measure.
2. Check the facts
Put every important claim in the right box: fact/evidence, law, guidance, Freedom position, or opinion/idea. If you cannot source it, do not strengthen a weak claim with confident wording. Check the current Freedom facts or leave it out.
3. Plan a safe event
Record the purpose, audience, responsible organiser, venue or platform, permissions, speaker approval, safeguarding route, photography plan, fundraising or money handling, data collection, foreseeable risks, disclosure response and how you will judge usefulness.
4. Someone told me something
Listen. Stay calm and do not interrogate.
Do not promise secrecy. Explain that you may need to tell the right person so they can help.
Do not investigate or contact family. Do not test the story, mediate, confront anyone or alert alleged perpetrators.
Pass it on. Use the safeguarding or support route you have been given.
Immediate danger: call 999.
5. Message test
Ask: Is it true? Is the language humane and precise? Could it stereotype, identify or expose somebody? Are we using shock where clarity would be better? Is the route to help visible? Could a reasonable reader misunderstand what Freedom is claiming? Would we still defend the wording if it were quoted without context?
6. After-action review
What did we set out to change? What actually happened? What did people understand better? What question kept appearing? Was anyone signposted safely? What felt unsafe, confusing or overcomplicated? What should we stop, simplify or change? What should Freedom know?