• Slow Down Fast Fashion
    Fashion is a factor that affects everyone with its problems which are hidden in flashy and bright adverts and colours. Many ways of making clothes and transporting them affects the planet in many ways that are not often understood by many people. Our aim is to spread awareness for this problem through this petition whilst making a bigger change to our city and peers.
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    Created by lizzie whelan
  • School for children with special needs
    Join me so our children with disabilities can get the correct education they deserve and need
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    Created by Amy Loveridge
  • Keep our Children Safe - Extra footpaths around Forncett St Peter Primary School
    It is feared that an accident resulting in a fatality of a child is imminent. Many of the parents are forced to walk their children, some just toddlers in the path of oncoming traffic as there are no footpaths. They have no alternative but to walk around the already parked cars along a narrow stretch of road to reach the school. As the traffic is reduced to one lane for the two way traffic, this means that the cars are just sometimes centimetres away from the walking children. It is perilous and very scary. Action is needed urgently.
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    Created by Sarah Coleman
  • A Just Transition for Roots Community Garden
    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.
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    Created by Roots Community Garden
  • The Lords can fix the NHS
    The Lords are not poor people who rely on their daily fee. It is outrageous to tell people on benefits they only need around 75 per week yet the Lords receive £300 per day. This is patently wrong. I'm sure the public would rather give that 48 million a year to nurses rather than the Lords.
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    Created by LINDA DOCHERTY
  • Protect Female and Non-Binary Students at Hughes Hall
    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.
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    Created by Lotte Brundle
  • Please save Derby Marketplace Marquee
    To keep creativity and culture with room for new opportunities alive within the city.
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    Created by Samantha Hempsall
  • Gas prices
    The petrol companies would like us to do nothing and compete for fossil gas. We should change to green gas from digesters and ban fossil gas. Green gas is cheaper and better than fossil gas.
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    Created by Alan Stewart
  • Support For Survivors of Sexual Abuse/Rape
    It's takes decades for the majority of children that have endured abuse, sexual abuse and/or rape to come forward and when they do they will not physically represent the abused child that they were. This can initially cause a problem in the victim being believed and/or coming forward. But it needs to be understood that the abuse endured has a long term negative effort on the child, rewiring their brains and damaging their development. The child most likely grew up in a situation where it was known by others, including adults, that the abuse was happened and no one did anything. This leads to the child growing up to believe it was normal practice. It isn't until they are an adult, starting their own family or joining a family via a partner that they begin to notice the differences. It is shameful that a Local Authority can say that they are not responsible or liable for what the child endured while under their care. It can not be OK for the local authority to not be held accountable for the abuse. The law needs to show the victims that they support them 100% and understand. The law needs to support the victim to sue the local authority for financial support to fund counselling and therapy. To help the victim to access education again so they can gain back the chances that they lost. The law needs to hold all the local authorities that have children in their care, either in a LA accommodation or not 100% responsible for the physical, emotional and developmental well being for the said child. Even when this means using an outside agency/business that the LA pays.
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    Created by Sid Spencer
  • Tesco, please don't make us walk amidst moving cars
    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." ===
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    Created by Vikki Fielden Fielden
  • Turning asylum seekers boats back is murder.
    This policy is dangerous and will increase the chances of asylum seekers, aka people, dying.
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    Created by Andrew Williams
  • Donate deducted wages from UCU strike to Unite Foundation
    Better working conditions for HE staff makes for better education outcomes for students. A fairer HE makes for a fairer society.
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    Created by UCU Northampton