BTP Edinburgh

We're the Edinburgh youth branch of the international charity ActionAid. We campaign to end poverty through tackling the root causes.

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

Plans to lobby SMPs to support the Tax Dodging Bill are in motion. @ActionAidUK @ActionAidBTP

[FreshAir News @FreshAirNews]

Police have issued this e-fit of a man they want to speak to in connection with the rape of a student in the Meadows.

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

Team BTPEd attending @EUAmnesty Solving the ISIS crisis: Human Rights and Our Role

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

HUGE day for us: Barclays have agreed to stop promoting tax havens! Looks like of our campaigning paid off! @ActionAidBTP @ActionAidUK

[Jamie Livingstone @JamiePolitics]

Helped launch @decappeal for Ebola in Edinburgh. Hope people in Scotland give generously. #ebola @OxfamScotland

[Jon Snow @jonsnowC4]

The true cost to UK social mobility of private schools: http://t.co/jTqnoGTgwh or, how to keep the class system going!

[Unearthed @UE]

New data: 3 charts on how the UK's coal use collapsed over the summer http://t.co/eN1qLzh8Uu

[The Guardian @guardian]

New Scotland poll changes face of next year's election http://t.co/2F91DPdrV3

[The Guardian @guardian]

Are Topshop's mannequins too skinny? http://t.co/lMEpChHKqx

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

#TownsAgainstTaxDodging meets #Sourced at BTPEd. Last night we began petitioning at the SU and got 100+ signatures #fabulous

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

Following our meeting tomorrow night were all heading over to a film screening http://t.co/fjC84LbnP9 come along and get engaged!

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

Our VP @MGThornton showing off her 'what is BTP edinburgh?' Mindmap! #craftivism @ActionAidUK @ActionAidBTP

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

What an exciting day to be living in Scotland

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

Sweet, sweet progress

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

VP @MGThornton is summarising BTPEd on a piece of A1. Here goes...

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

The freshers from our scavenger hunt are slowly beginning to appear. Complete with armstrongs goodies and bananas

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

And we're back! Freshers Fair day one has been swell. We've already run out of spaces on our sign up street! #victory

[BTP Edinburgh @BTPEdinburgh]

A considered article from our VP @MGThornton http://t.co/E2urzmNZgo

[ActionAid UK @ActionAidUK]

“We all understand that banks need to make money, but paying tax is a moral obligation, so please use your influence positively” Lisa James