Lobby for Good · The People’s Lobby
What’s actually going on? Follow it back.
Public decisions shape our lives, but working out what happened, why it happened and whether there is still time to have a say can take hours.
Lobby for Good helps everyday people follow public decisions back to the record, understand what is known, see what is still unclear and work out what happens next.
Independent. Evidence-led. Built for everyday people.
This is the front door. The Portal is where you follow the work.
Start with the question
You shouldn’t have to understand our system to understand theirs.
You don’t need to know which Lobby for Good tool you need. Start with what you are trying to understand.
What are people trying to understand right now?
See the public decisions, questions and changes we are currently following.
Explore → Help me understandSomething doesn’t make sense yet?
Start with the thing you saw, heard, received or are trying to work out.
Get help → Follow it backWhere did this come from?
Go backwards through the public record and separate what is documented from what is still unclear.
Follow the record → Have your sayIs there still time to do something?
See where an official way to take part is still open, and where the next step has not happened yet.
See what’s open →Follow It Back
Don’t pick a side yet. Check the record.
Start with the thing people are talking about. Then go backwards through the public record.
Where did this come from?
What exists now?
What would have to change?
What should we watch next?
The People’s Lobby
The information is public. The time to find it isn’t.
Government and large organisations have people whose job is to read the papers, follow the process and keep turning up.
Most people are trying to do the same thing around work, family and everything else.
We are building shared capacity so more of us can follow public decisions properly, not just when they make the news.
The public helps us see the questions. The evidence determines the answer. Members help make sure we have the capacity to keep looking.
Independent public-interest work
We don’t tell you what to think. We help you find enough to think about.
We ask the same questions whoever is in power. We show where the information came from, separate what is documented from what is still unknown, and let you decide what you think.
Membership helps fund the work. It never buys the conclusion.
Lobby for Good
They know how the system works. We should too.
The Portal is where you can see what we are following, understand the record, follow things back and see whether there is still time to have a say.
