PricedOut – your voice, your opportunity?

PricedOut is a independent, high profile campaign for affordable housing. We are looking to recruit new people to the team to continue to build on our media profile and presence in the UK housing sector.

We make things happen. We meet advisors from No 10, take phone calls from Ministers, talk to think tanks, civil servants and academics, sit at government summits and have cups of tea in the House of Lords and with Members of Parliament. We appear regularly in the media, have broken exclusives in the Guardian and the Financial Times, helped the Daily Mail set up stories and been interviewed on the BBC, Sky News, ITV and Channel 4. We launch campaign actions to get the government to change.

We do this with almost no money – but a strong team of volunteers and a passion to speak out for the PricedOut generation who are getting a raw deal on housing. We have thousands of supporters, a big facebook and twitter following – we want to build this movement, make it larger and make our campaigning better.

Can you help us?

Our current team are going through life changes and are looking to help a new generation of priced out activists grab hold of the baton. We are looking for new spokespeople, campaigners and supporters to take on the priced out challenge at this incredibly important time, and who can commit to at least 1 day per week. In particular, we need people who can:

• Make TV and radio appearances on behalf of the campaign;
• Meet with ministers and stakeholders in the housing sector;
• Write our responses to Government consultations and write copy for printed press;
• Support us in brokering funds from external organisations and individuals.

The experience you would get would be huge, and we would provide you with support and mentoring to take forward our organisation. This is a great opportunity to help shape the campaign moving forward, as well as continuing to raise our profile.

We, alas have no money, but we do have use of a central London office alongside another high-profile housing organisation (if needed) and our experience and address book. It would look great on your CV, you’d do something that matters for millions of people and you could help shake up the consensus that says young people should stay stuck renting with no hope of decent, secure and affordable accommodation.

Interested? Please send us a copy of your CV to press@pricedout.org.uk or call Katy or Matt for a confidential chat on 07545 147771 or 07810 821501