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Get involved with our Phone call nightmares campaign

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How you can get involved with STAMMA's latest campaign.

Our new campaign is all about pushing organisations to make phone calls more accessible for people who stammer. Join us and let's change the landscape so that phoning a company is normal, and not a nightmare!

Share on socials

We need as many people as possible to see this campaign. So we need your help.

Check out our social channels below and please share our posts about the campaign far and wide. It could be as simple as reposting them on your profile or sharing them on Stories — it will only take a few minutes, but it will make a massive difference.

Share with businesses

If you work for a company that takes incoming or outgoing phone calls from the public, share our report on stammering and phone accessibility with them (download it below), as well as our tips on how to make phone calls more accessible

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Or, if you've just tried to call a company and got stuck, fill out the form on our Advocacy Service page

Talk to us

Tell us about your experiences of calling businesses. Whatever your story, we want to hear it, good or bad. We need as many stories as possible to get businesses to understand the impact of rubbish calls. 

Drop us a line at media@stamma.org It can be just a short paragraph, or give us both barrels. Don't include personal names. Do tell us about the impact of the call.

If the call was so bad that you simply couldn't get through it, then don't waste a moment, give all the details to our Advocacy Service, and we'll see what we can do. But don't sit on it, otherwise before you know it, the window for any legal action will close.

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Our Don't Hang Up. Hang On ad

Donate & fundraise 

We know the campaign looks swish, thanks to the awesome pro bono support we've received from Iris Worldwide, JCDecaux and Pearl & Dean. But if it's going to succeed over the next months and years, we need to put the legwork in by approaching the call centres, pushing our workshops and training, and checking back on them. 

Our staff and volunteers are amazing, but the operation costs money. Money we need to run the workshops, print materials and take the calls. 

Help us to make this campaign a success. Please donate or fundraise for STAMMA — download our fundraising pack below to get some ideas.

"STAMMA has made a culture which is warm and welcoming from the start. They created a space where everyone could contribute and share ideas, where everyone felt valued."

Volunteer

Become an advocate

We want to develop a team of volunteers who can advocate and present our campaign on the ground, to businesses and services nationwide. And we'll need people who stammer to talk direct to businesses alongside with us, to help them understand how and why changes are needed. This would be on an ad-hoc basis, and we'd support you all the way. This work forms part of our National Lottery work.

If you'd like to be part of this movement, contact volunteer@stamma.org and use 'Nightmare phone calls' as your subject title.

"Recognition was always there... STAMMA went out of their way to say you were helpful, you really felt like you were contributing and making a difference."

Join our general volunteer team

Our amazing team of volunteers keep the wheels of STAMMA spinning forward (and they keep taking us further and further!). Volunteers are embedded in all our support services: our helpline & webchat, advocacy and employment support, workshops and training, and supporting families and children. The opportunities are as wide as your ambition, and we'll make sure you have all the training and support you need to create an impact.  

If you'd like to get involved in other ways, head over to our Volunteer With Us page to find out about our current opportunities. Not sure if it's the right fit for you? Then chat with us! Contact us at volunteer@stamma.org and we'll talk through any of your questions.