1  Buy and wear a Purple Teardrop pinbadge

2  Become a member of the Purple Teardrop campaign

3  Make the Purple Teardrop Campaign one of the charities you support in 2011

4  Support the Campaign’s lobbies – sign-up to the lobby to ban sex for sales adverts which are used to market sex for sale using trafficked women and girls. Alternatively, download and print a multi-signature paper version.

5 Write to your local newspaper group if they are publishing sex for sale adverts – in the event of a negative response, why not ask other advertisers to threaten to boycott. Nothing speaks louder than money.

6  Contact your MP and ask them to sign up to EDM 931 and to support legislation banning sex for sale advertising

7  Mark Anti-Slavery Day on 18 October using the new Purple Teardrop Campaign posters and leaflets available soon

8  Hold an awareness raising event to alert your community to human trafficking. Here’s an inspirational article entitled Human Trafficking Not Just an Inner City Problem from Soroptimist International Barnstaple on how their members organised their seminar on human trafficking, which highlighted that trafficking takes place in rural communities, not just towns and cities

9  Learn how to become an Active Community against Trafficking (ACT)

10  Support ECPAT UK and the Body Shop in their petition to introduce guardianship for child victims of trafficking

11  Follow Purple Teardrop Campaign on facebook and twitter – access is from our home page