Author: Chris Henderson

VERY IMPORTANT legal instructions

The flyer designs are not quite print-ready.

All of the flyer design PDFs on this website are provided with three lines of placeholder small print on one side:

  • “Printed by… at …”
  • “Promoted by… at …”
  • “DO NOT PRINT UNTIL THIS LINE REMOVED AND ABOVE LINES CORRECTLY FILLED IN with a person’s name and a postal address”

That means they’re NOT ready to print just as they are. Your flyers may not legally be printed until the correct “election imprint” for your print order is in place. [An explanation of election law for DIY campaigners…]

Before proceeding you MUST either:

Toolkit launched for D.I.Y. wildcat flyering against the Tories

Want to do D.I.Y. leafleting against the Tories in the General Election 2017 campaign? Do you prefer to use indie, non-party flyers? Don’t have flyers or a design to hand?

This website provides everything you need to run a DIY leafleting campaign where you live… and keep it legal.

Choose free double-sided flyer artwork from a gallery

We’ve provided eight free, high-quality double-sided flyer designs.

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New crowdfunder: Anti #SimonKirby meme goes viral to 267,000 people with only £100 spent!

So this is interesting. Twitter user @Rachael_Swindon has been producing handy, and very popular, little memes like this:

Now, Facebook has not traditionally allowed “paid boosting” of images which are covered in text. However, they’ve recently loosened their rules, which are no longer very clear; they do tell you that texty images “may not run”, and a couple of paid boosts I’ve attempted have been unsuccessful. But, but, I’ve been allowed to paid boost this meme to Brighton and Peacehaven residents unhindered, and it’s gone super viral! Here are the stats for direct reach of the £100 I’ve been able to spend:

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Facebook page publishing toolkit

Want to reach ordinary voters in your local area? Want to reach like-minded people? Want your own easy and fun publishing project? If you can lay your hands on any money at all (from your pocket, from clubbing together, or by fundraising, you can order Facebook sponsored posts (paid advertising). You will then be able to reach hundreds of the Facebook users of your choice that we normally don’t reach…

#RegisterToVote crowdfunder update: £180 raised, 28,000 extra young people’s news feeds reached

So, I’ve been spending most of my activist time lately setting up the flyer design gallery, and the main crowdfunder push for the donation pages set up on this website will be coming within maybe the next week or so…

But with the voter registration deadline approaching, I’ve given a bit of a push to the #RegisterToVote crowdfunder, and had a good response! Thank you very much to everyone who’s donated. £180 has now been raised – £171.11 net of our crowdfunder platform fees.

That’s all been put into Facebook, and at the time of writing £143.44 of that has been spent. That money has directly reached nearly 29,000 young people’s news feeds, targeted as far as possible to marginal seats.

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Publish on Facebook to thousands

Want to reach ordinary voters in your local area? Want to reach like-minded people? Want your own easy and hugely fun publishing project?

If you can lay your hands on any money at all (from your pocket, from clubbing together, or by fundraising, you can order Facebook sponsored posts (paid advertising). You will then be able to reach hundreds of the Facebook users of your choice that we normally don’t reach.

fundraiseYou can reach 1,500 to 3,000 people with a budget of just £10. If you can you fundraise £100, then you can sponsor reach of your chosen Facebook post(s) to between 15,000 and 30,000 Facebook users…

That will include thousands of Tory supporters, thousands of unengaged people, and many uncommitted voters.

Advertise to the exact audience you want

And if you choose to, you can tell Facebook to show your ad only to the exact audience you want:

  • people who all live in the same town or neighbourhood, OR
  • people who all have the same shared interest as you, OR
  • people who are all in the age range you want, OR
  • people of one particular gender – men or women.

With a big fundraise, you might be able to reach most of the Facebook users in your town, or your community of interest!

Learn Facebook page publishing and crowdfunding here… it’s easy!

It’s easier than you might think! Anyone can do it. Get started right now with the step-by-step instruction guide we’ve lovingly prepared for you.

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Continue to step-by-step guide…

Choose a #GE17 anti-Tory DIY flyer design – order 5,000 flyers delivered to your door

Choose a design below, and take our free artwork. £105 buys 5000 high-quality anti-Tory flyers, your choice of design from our menu, ordered with one phone call and one bank transfer, delivered to your door.

(You can reduce the cost to just £85, if you’re able to do your own small amount of screen work on the flyer files first. We give you a step-by-step guide.)

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Create a Facebook project group

Know your Facebook: What’s the difference between a Facebook ‘page’ and a Facebook ‘group’?

A Facebook page is automatically public. Anyone can ‘like’ and read all the posts on your public page.

Your project group however can (and should) be closed, so that only group members will be able to read group posts. Group members are added by you or by another group member. Group members can be removed if necessary by an admin.

Create your project group page

Your main focus will be your public Facebook page. However, if you don’t already have another safe digital space available for keeping in touch digitally with your own project team – a space that other people who are interested in helping you out can find and join – then it might well be worth starting a ‘group’ too on Facebook.

Creating a group really couldn’t be much easier.

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