There was a time not so long ago when it was customary for PFC’s key activists to gather in somebody’s lounge for our annual planning meeting, safe in the knowledge that finding enough seats was not going to be a problem. Anyone prepared to pose for the camera in those days was considered to be committing a selfless act of personal bravery too.

Barely five years down the road, however, it’s getting difficult to fit just half of us around a conference table … and if there’s any holding of breath when the flash gun goes off, then it’s just because it’s the only way to squeeze everyone into camera shot.

These are the people in Press for Change who’ve volunteered to take responsibility for one or more aspects of the campaign’s activities … the Key Activists. Too many to name now individually, and spread right across the UK, we only usually get together like this just once a year. The other 364 days we work in small groups or alone on our particular projects.

Those specialist responsibilities now include coordinating legal cases, organising PFC’s public appearances at events like the party conferences and freshers’ fairs, liasing with MP’s and MEP’s, producing and distributing newsletters, recruiting new helpers, answering the hundreds of letters and emails we receive each year and (of course) editing and extending this web site.

Overall, in fact, a total of forty Key Activists are now engaged in fighting for the rights of the UK’s transsexual population, along with hundreds more who’ve asked for our campaign pack and done their bit, by collecting petition signatures or seeing their local Member of Parliament. Little wonder, then, that Press for Change is fast acquiring a reputation as a force to be reckoned with.

None of that answers the really taxing problem for next year though … how are we going to get next year’s meeting into one photograph?

Last Year’s Team Photo