In previous years when Roots has been moved the University has ignored many requests from the society. We need you to show that you support these proposals and demonstrate the vitality of having a community garden on campus, for education, for biodiversity, for mental health.

Students that are female and non-binary in particular have been spiked with date rape drugs via injection in their arms at a college bop. I feel unsafe in my college and at this university. Procedures need to be put in place to punish the perpetrators and protect further students from harm in their university colleges. Help me make Cambridge University and Hughes Hall College a safer space for students that identify as female or non-binary.

Another (but much more expensive) option would be to widen the ramp leading to the mid-level parking area/main entrance and provide effective vehicle/pedestrian segregation. When approached, Tesco Management have said the closure is due to "incidents and undesirable behaviour" from people using the Carlisle St entrance. We appreciate that is a problem, but suggest that having a security guard and CCTV etc, at that entrance, plus effective co-operation with council and police, would solve the problem. (There is a security guard at the mid-level car park/main entrance; there should really be an additional traffic marshal ON the ramp.) We understand it saves money if you don't have to hire an extra security guard, but making your store basically difficult/dangerous to access for people without cars is not community- (or environmentally-) friendly. Keeping the Carlyle St entrance closed discriminates against the disabled and those with limited incomes. It also results in people taking risks that may lead to serious injuries or worse (it's just a matter of time), and favours people who use cars over those who walk or use public transport. To reach the other entrances, people must walk more than a third of a mile/600 metres (Googlemaps' estimated time to walk: 7 min) to get to the ONE pedestrian-only entrance (on the other side of a VERY large store) – or even further (at least half a mile/800 metres) to the lower car park entrance. (These pedestrian entrances are NOT signposted.) Note: If the lift is out of order and you cannot cope with stairs, there is zero pedestrian access (except via the "travellator" from the lower car park, also accessed from Savile St. – a commercial/industrial zone in which nobody lives). What people do instead is use the mid-level car park ramp (still an extra 250 metres/3 minutes' walk), which is intended for cars rather than people, and means that cars pass dangerously close to pedestrians (many of whom have small children with them), and at speed. This is very unsafe, yet there are no signs saying pedestrians should not use this ramp, nor that cars should beware or give room. Thus, keeping the Carlisle St entrance closed encourages people to visit Tesco in cars/taxis rather than on foot/by bus (not very green), and disadvantages those on limited incomes (who don't have cars/can't afford a bus let alone a taxi), the elderly, those who are visually impaired or otherwise disabled, those using pushchairs/prams/wheelchairs, parents with small children in tow, and/or those who are carrying heavy shopping. Here are some comments from people in the community: "As a wheelchair user it requires me to spend even longer in the road than the average pedestrian as I need to use the dip at the crossing, and it is out-and-out dangerous. Cars speed around that corner, often not indicating. The bit of the road, that I can only presume is the walkway, is often full of trolleys and signs and of course is so narrow it isn't even wide enough for two people to cross. I feel safer going down the centre of the road and treating it similarly to walking on country roads." === "Silly and unsafe. During lockdown no cars used the ramp. Now they do. My granddaughter nearly got run over by a car going round the corner on the ramp. My husband told the folk at Tesco. It seems from their staff that the Management has permanently closed the top pedestrian entrance. We would like to see their risk assessment. Hope they look at this again soon. We don’t shop there with kids until they do. Life is worth more than shopping at our local shop." === "With small children, one in a pushchair, and shopping I really really resent being forced to walk the long way round, or dice with death, when car drivers have 2 choices of entrance. It totally discriminates against local people who don’t have access to a car." === "......it is really annoying having to carry all the shopping up the road; it's too much for the elderly and for people with disabilities." === "I've seen mums dragging prams, small kids and bags of shopping up the ramp as cars whizz down. It's totally unsafe... and no way those mums will choose the other exit, with small kids in tow that could be a good 10 mins onto the journey, with heavy bags and toddlers. The design of the Spital Hill entrance was bad, they need to find design solutions to make it better – not shut it." ===

Better working conditions for HE staff makes for better education outcomes for students. A fairer HE makes for a fairer society.

Redlands has provided a wide range of sports facilities for many years and is a valued local facility that the town needs. The decision to close the site in the summer of 2022 is going to seriously reduce the provision of sports facilities in the area. The site is owned by Dorset Council and leased to Weymouth College so both organisations are in a position to work together to keep the site open. So we are asking for the site to be kept open whilst a longer term plan for its future is worked out. It is now widely recognized that having an active lifestyle is critical to remaining fit and healthy. So the provision of a wide range of sporting facilities is essential to ensure as many residents as possible can keep active. Closing Redlands makes no sense from this point of view.

Each year animals experience prolonged panic, injury and too often death here on our animal rescue site purely at the hands of those setting off banging fireworks without regard for the harm they cause. This issue is prevalent across the country, an annual practice which can run from October into the New Year. Banging fireworks are still legally sold in the uk unlike some other forward moving countries which aim to protect those badly affected and in doing so make a significant contribution to the progress of environmental refinement. The misery which banging fireworks cause to animals, their owners, the elderly and vulnerable people is both unfair and unnecessary. Fireworks should be made enjoyable for everyone. No one should suffer because of fireworks. We Must Ban The Bang.

As temperatures drop, energy bills are rising. It’s normal for direct debits to go up as we heat our homes this time of year – but some energy providers have been accused of hiking monthly payments above what’s needed in a ‘stealth raid’ on customers. MoneySavingExpert founder Martin Lewis is warning that some firms are hiking direct debits right now to help their cash flow, even when it isn't justified. But, British Gas, the UK’s biggest energy provider, has already said they won’t do this, freezing direct debits for most customers until February next year. We know enough pressure on other energy companies could force them to do the same. Sign the petition now and demand energy companies put their customers' wallets first, not shareholder profits.

While other areas have seen older sports & leisure facilities replaced by new modern ones, Plains has seen no such regeneration in this sense. Our playing fields have been abandoned by the local authorities, the pavilion & changing rooms demolished over a decade ago with no thought of a replacement, the janlin centre replaced by a rarely used garden & a dilapidated community welfare hall which other than for elections has been rarely used also. Stripping working class communities bare of all recreational facilities & then people wonder why there’s so much deprivation & hopelessness in areas like this. We hope everyone can get behind this campaign and we thank you all for your continued support.

Rewilding schemes have been successful in the UK and with the study and upholding of the schemes, even more so. Rewilding is an important step in tackling climate change and biodiversity loss which has been affecting Hampshire county, it allows for the natural growth of spaces so that nature can thrive in it once again. There are many unused Council owned areas such as brownfield sites or unsustainable spaces that could be used for rewilding and so we are calling for Hampshire county council to put these spaces to good use during a climate and ecological emergency through specialist rewilding schemes. We need the community support, it is so important to have schemes like this in place to provide space for animals and plants that are rarely available these days due to human take over. Support this campaign today to start change!

To ensure the village has a safe maintained road to drive, ride and walk in and out off.

Action needs to be taken now to protect our children, before any more accidents or fatalities occur on roads near schools. We must ensure their safety - they are our future and are precious.

Background information: Our land - We are concerned about how our Council is managing its most valuable asset, public land. There is a growing danger that it may consider disposing of land for short-term benefit, without full consideration of how it may solve the City’s long-term problems. A major ongoing issue being the shortage of suitable housing for local people. Housing costs and incomes Sussex Live reported in May 2021, using Government data, that rent payments take up nearly 47% of income for those who live in Brighton. This is now ahead of London. In addition, too many people are trapped in emergency and temporary accommodation, and this is more than likely to increase if we do not act now. Consequences of bad housing: - There is a growing awareness of the web of knock-on effects due to inadequate housing, including malnutrition, drink and drug abuse, domestic violence/abuse, child poverty, mental & physical health issues. The resolution of these issues is becoming increasingly difficult for local Councils to resolve, and we are seeing long established safety nets gradually being removed. Social housing – the solution – We cannot fail to be aware of the importance of decent, sustainable social housing as a means of improving people’s lives, thus enabling our Councils to use their resources more effectively. This view is supported by every major housing and homeless charity in the UK , who have agreed that building more suitable homes is the only answer to the Homeless crisis. Many more Council Homes - We must, therefore, use our publicly owned land to build council homes. UK Central Government has allocated £10 billion to build social/council homes. Both Conservative and Labour Parties have accepted the latest report prepared by "The Kerslake Commission" and both parties have agreed to build a minimum 90,000 council homes a year. The Green Party in our city have always supported community house building and to build homes fit to live in for decades to come. Action required - So, with these facts in mind, we can see no justification or excuse for the Council trying to sell off our land for ineffective private development. This must be used for building much-needed Social Homes. We the public, as owners of this land, must tell our elected Councillors to protect it from being sold off or tied up in long leases, often at nominal prices and allow it to be used for the benefit of our communities. Please sign and share this petition and get your friends (and friend’s friends!) to do the same. If you can’t sign this, you may be part of the problem!