Tell Barclays to stop promoting tax havens in Africa

The campaign

- Highstreet name

- Complex international issue

Strategy

- Reputation of new CEO as cleaning up the business

- Insider and outsider

- Some international coordination

E-Actions

- Email to CEO Antony Jenkins

- 10,000+ emails sent

- Secured meeting with top execs, flown in from across the globe

- Twitter actions- Targetting @BarclaysOnline (UK customer

support team)

- 14 tweet variations from email

- Over 300 tweets

- Facebook action driven by email

• Email our on the day with a picture from our stunt

• Asked people to tweet #BarclaysAGM to catch attention of delegates

• No pre-written tweets, high quality and low volume were important

…Lots of meetings and discussions behind the scenes

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VICTORY!Barclays commit to stop promoting tax havens to

clients in Africa (but they’re still providing them)

Questions?

@ClaireDonnerclaire.donner@actionaid.org