Ten talking points for organising for change: an academic and practitioner exchange

This article summarises the opening plenary talk presented at the Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Network conference (September 2024). It takes practical lessons from Organising For Change (Bristol University Press), by the authors, and presents them as Ten Talking Points easily accessible to practitioners. It posits that careful resourcing, collaboration and multipronged tactical approaches are coconstitutive and crucial for delivering desirable, or preventing undesirable, social change. Panel respondents’ perspectives are presented in an accompanying article.