MP pledges to unplug mobile phone

Off to the House of Commons today for a celebration of the DCSF Sustainable Schools Unit's Young Activists Programme. We're creating a fabulous set of on-line campaigning resources for young activists as part of the Programme (how to run a fantastic campaign, how to make a great presentation, a brilliant film, a fabulous poster etc) which will enable young people to persuade loads of people to lots of good things. The new resources will be available from this September on our soon to be re-launched website. (Watch this space.) We took along Lucie and Rachelle - graduates of year one of our Young Speakers Programme - and let them loose on the unsuspecting crowd with a stack of WAWWD "action stickers"* . Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools, Diana Johnson committed to "unplug her mobile phone charger" from this day forward and was duly given an "action sticker". She won't be forgetting to that in a hurry. Nice one girls. (Rachelle is seen here with proof of Diana Johnson's commitment.)

*Definition of "action sticker": a sticker with an action on it. You say you'll do an action and we stick a sticker on you to remind you. We wear a matching sticker on out t-shirt as proof of your commitment.