Greg Bloomfield, Founder, FairGO.

Fairgo was formed in Australia as a not-for-profit organisation to advise individuals, small businesses and community groups on how to influence, or lobby, governments more effectively. It is owned and operated by Greg Bloomfield, a Christian, former Chartered Accountant and CPA.

FairGO established the very successful All Politicians Individual Messaging (APIM) service called Votergrams in 1986, now V-mail. This communication mechanism allows low cost lobbying in order to make democratic government work for the people.

FairGO was formed to facilitate the working together of individuals and community groups to mount campaigns to influence government thinking and action. Our main activity has been in Australia where FairGO covers all states and territories as well as the Federal Government. FairGO is now expanding to help voters in other democratic countries such as America, Canada, UK, and France, but will try to assist voters in any democracy.

FairGO has completely avoided receiving any government funding in order to retain its independence. Thus it has been chiefly funded by its founding family, with considerable support from users who pay for services, subscribers who receive a range of services free and personal donations from those it has assisted.

FairGO has also sought to avoid becoming a power base, believing that instead, power should rest with the people it helps.

For this reason we have developed programs such as Democracy Coaching and various guidelines like "Ten Steps to Good Government" and "Discovering Democracy", which are for sale.

Where people or groups do not have the time or inclination, FairGO will conduct their campaigns for them. FairGO has no party political preferences. Responsibility for political comment is taken by Greg Bloomfield, Turramurra.

THANK YOU

The FairGO website was created by Lucy Perry from Pure Graphics, a local graphic design and advertising company. The site was developed and is maintained without charge as a contribution to enhancing democracy. We are most grateful to Lucy for her time and talent. To find out more about Pure Graphics, visit www.puregraphics.com.au