The UK is in an obesity crisis. Yet only 1 in 7 people have gym memberships. One of the biggest impediments to this is price. 20% of a gym membership goes to VAT, discouraging the public from improving their health and well being. Not to mention saving the NHS millions and millions of pounds by reducing obesity related healthcare. Make gyms cheaper and the population healthier by removing VAT on gym membership.

The profession is currently playing a damaging and uncontrolled role in the contribution to climate change and its effect on the pollution of our land and seas of the people which it serves.

I have tried emailing Croydon Council, contacting MP's and even have met with one to submit a proposal to back my idea, only to hear nothing back despite multiple emails. So, this is all I have left aside from going vigilante by planting wildflowers everywhere. Pollinators are dying across the globe; we need them for our food and they are vital for the ecosystem. The journal 'Nature Communications' believes that the largest factor driving this is loss of habitats and shrinking ranges. I have personally been informed multiple times by Croydon Council that 'Croydon has over 120 parks which provide a wide rich mixture of plants for bees and butterflies.' This, however, is not enough as many of these parks do not contain wildflowers and are mowed so regularly, that more common wildflowers (like dandelions) cannot grow and thus pollinators, like bees, cannot feed. As global warming is changing traditional weather patterns, many butterflies, like the marbled white, are emerging too early to feed on their preferred food source; thus many are starving and are not able to mate. So, while planting broad ranging wildflowers that open in the summer months, we must also consider growing wildflowers that open earlier in spring and last late into autumn in order to sustain them throughout the unpredictable weather. No food for pollinators means no food for humans. It is simple really; planting more wildflowers will cut down on maintenance costs and help the environment. The wiping out of pollinators marks a serious environmental problem which we need to turn around. Unused areas of green space around Croydon can be turned into miniature meadows which will help reverse it and will also be strikingly beautiful. This impacts all of us and it needs to be taken seriously. We need 1,000 signatures for this to be discussed by the council, so let's get there! Thank you.

With half of all people in the United Kingdom using homelessness services being classed as a young person (Under 25), we need to take a stance and look after our youths. The welfare state has consistently penalised this age bracket solely because of their age and the result has been catastrophic. Sign our petition today and take a stance. Together lets try and raise the housing benefit and save thousands of young lives.

A few years ago I was raped twice by my ex partner. Although I didn’t report him at the exact time it happened, I did report my rape after we split up. Throughout the police process, I was not offered any kind of mental health support by the police or by my GP, I was just put on medication and that was it. The medication didn’t work. The whole process took over a year and a half, and I was then told that the CPS will not be prosecuting and no further action will be taken. That was it. I have been left on my own since. I have been to the GP numerous times to ask for support and therapy and have received nothing. Even after I had started self harming as a way of coping, I have received nothing. No help, no support. There is not enough support available to survivors of rape and domestic abuse, we should not have to fight to get help.

Its is very important to me because we hear new claims how sugar, alcohol and household products we use daily is damaging our health with 1 in 3 people we know will have cancer at one point in their life. Majority of these diseases and cancers are caused by the cheap products on the market and poor lifestyle.The natural and healthier products prices are sky high, I believe the prices should be cut down so people can make healthier food and product choices for their families or even make it equal price so people have a freedom of choice. This subject is dictated on television and on the news but is sometimes impossible being healthy as its too expensive to upkeep and something needs to drastically change. I have tried to make a change as a overweight person due to the food choices I have made and decided I needed to eliminate sugar and carbs as its ruining my health but some of the prices out there in our local shops are ridiculous for a family to enjoy the benefits of healthy eating are can be virtually impossible to upkeep if you are on average wage. Some people have to go into debt in order to eat naturally and use natural products due to the economic climate and the cost of living is so expensive and I wish to make a stand by making it equal or reverse the prices so healthier is cheaper rather than the other way round.

Something needs to be done about the business rates in the town. We can’t lose Debenhams in our town and more shops. The rot in our high street needs fixing

It is a violation against these creatures. Research shows that these animals are dying very quickly (usually within a week). Animals should not be restricted of their freedom this way. They are living things not fashion accessories!

Pretty much everybody who has had the assessment has ended up with ' 0 points ', but head injury is not like usual disibility. Most people who have suffered a brain injury can walk & talk etc & come across as normal at first contact. We all have memory and concentration problems & an extreme lack of motivation, unable to cope with stress or confrontation, amongst other problems that I can't actually think of off hand, which makes us basically unemployable. It is so stressful resulting in people giving up or going into extreme depression, often resulting in the unthinkable. I myself had to leave my home in Leeds & move close to family for help & support. It took a couple of years to get things sorted & I was given over £4000 in back pay cos they realised they were wrong in their decision - 8 months later I had to go for another assessment, exactly the same results & my ESA stopped again. Unfortunately the Dr at my surgery that was a specialist in head injury & helped to get the decision reversed has left & the disibility hub in Redhill which also helped, has closed. I can't cope with things myself so have left it cos the last thing I want is to go into a depression again, which unfortunately is inevitable. Thanx to Llidl & charity shops I can still live to a bearable standard, but we are talking about living on £10 a week for food & spending a lot of time at my mum's, especially during winter because at home I rarely have the heating on, cos I simply wouldn't be able to afford it. If anything could be done to make the government aware of the problems they have caused it really would be appreciated Thanx Stacey Godsell

Edinburgh Airport recently submitted a new attempt to more than double the number of flights per hour by changing the airspace rules aircraft depart and arrive under. https://airspacechange.caa.co.uk/PublicProposalArea?pID=163 This is detrimental to the local environment in other ways too. With no limits on night flights, local residents may find themselves woken early or suffering sleep disturbance. The scientific evidence is now beyond challenge. Burning fossil fuels is causing a rise in global temperatures which threatens the survival of many species, and many humans as well. Edinburgh's proposal would take their peak departure rate from about 20 per hour, to about 50, representing 6,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emission per departure hour. Assuming 12 hours equivalent per day that's 26 million tonnes of emissions per year from increased flights from Edinburgh. At a time when the world has realised we must take dramatic action to reduce carbon emissions to zero as quickly as possible, airport expansion is the wrong thing to do. Lack of sleep has been shown to speed up aging and cause psychiatric and physical illnesses. (See Martin Walker, amongst others.)

How many times have you forgot your carrier bags when out shopping and had to buy more adding to the loads you already have at home ? People hoard carrier bags because they are afraid to throw them away because they care what happens to them afterwards . This would enable people to take their excess bags to the supermarket to be re-used by forgetful customers. Bags would be used again and again and would completely eliminate sales of new bags , lets face it there's enough in circulation to last years we just aren't managing it properly.

Every parents worst nightmare is their child being hit by a car. The segway karts are seriously leathal and accidents waiting to happen due to how low to the ground they are and not supplied with a flag for bikes cars and trucks to see them. This is a very serious concern and these products are not supplying safety features with the items