Last week a group of 35 young people, aged 18-25, travelled from all over the country to learn key campaigning skills at the five-day residential CHANGE course, which took place at the YHA in Bristol.

After a week of intensive learning, cramming in everything there is to know about Oxfam campaigns, we let them loose on the streets of Bristol for a campaign stunt.

Dressed as runners and accompanied by the Gordon Brown 'big head' they did eight laps of Bristol's millennium square (each lap representing one of the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000 to help end poverty by 2015). They also handed a signed letter to Roger Berry, Kingswood MP, asking the Prime Minister to 'Go further on fighting poverty, Go for a just and fair foreign policy and Go faster on climate change'.

After their run they got to practise their face-to-face campaigning skills by asking the public to sign a petition on climate change.

The new generation of CHANGE are a fantastic bunch and we are expecting great things.

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