• Save Kingston University Foundation
    1) Penrhyn Road is a grey, uninspiring university campus compared to Knights Park. The art school would not and cannot blend here. 2) All of the visual arts subjects are based at Knights Park for a reason, the workshops, from photography to print, from 3D to the Digital Media Workshop (DMW), you can find all of it at Knights Park. As a foundation student last year, it took me 3 months to find where Penrhyn Road was. How will foundation students at Penrhyn find their way to us 3) Because of all the visual arts courses being based at Knights Park, there is a strong community of artists and creatives, and the social life at the student union bar, as well as the artistic space of the workshop and DMW last year enabled me to make many friends on other courses who I am still in contact with this year. These lasting relationships would not happen at Penrhyn. 4) The teaching team on the foundation course at Kingston University is immensely talented and vivacious, and there is an equally talented team in each of the departments they serve. Why separate this team from the other creative staff at the university, and why jeopardise this extremely committed team into leaving?
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  • Save Art History being cut from the A Level curriculum
    The exam board AQA have decided to discontinue offering Art History as a subject at AS and A Level from 2018. This is detrimental to students, teachers and the cultural future of this country. Art History is not a 'soft subject'. It encourages an interdisciplinary view of the world, the chance to delve into different civilisations and time periods and gives students the tools to think critically about how art and architecture are part of human experience. By cutting access to the study of Art History before university, fewer prospective students will think about enrolling for such a minority subject. Over time this will lead to a dearth of expertise and interest in the visual arts and heritage, vital for continuing to protect and promote the UK's rich cultural history. There is almost unanimous support from students, teachers, parents, art historians and museum professionals to keep Art History alive in our schools and colleges. Please think about signing this petition to give sixth-formers the chance to participate in this fundamental and enriching subject.
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  • Help us welcome Syrian refugees and asylum seekers into Dorset
    More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, and more than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to his rule battle each other. More than 4.5 million people have fled Syria since the start of the conflict, most of them women and children. Neighbouring Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey have struggled to cope with one of the largest refugee exoduses in recent history. Only 10% of Syrian refugees have sought safety in Europe, sowing political divisions as countries argue over sharing the so-called burden. Despite this, the county of Dorset has only agreed to resettling 6 families, a shockingly small amount in light of the recent crisis. The county council is coordinating the response from agencies in our area, however no concrete decisions have yet been made. We therefore urge you to sign this petition and increase pressure on the Dorset council to make a positive contribution to the improvement of the accommodation and treatment of Syrian refugees and asylum seekers.
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  • Specsavers - Stop Advertising in the Daily Express
    Anti-immigrant hate crime in the UK has increased fivefold over the past few months (according to the National Police Chiefs' Council). The UK media has, in the words of the United Nations human rights chief, peddled "sustained and unrestrained anti-foreigner abuse" and "vilification, intolerance and politicization of migrants." Migrants are routinely portrayed as less-than-human, and unworthy of dignity and respect. The Daily Express alone is responsible for headlines such as "BRITAIN MUST BAN MIGRANTS" and " SEND IN ARMY TO HALT MIGRANT INVASION." Specsavers: is this your vision? We are calling on you to take a stand, and no longer tacitly endorse the demonisation of migrant communities by the Daily Express. Just earlier this year, the newspaper was forced to publish a correction after press watchdog IPSO ruled that a piece entitled 'Europe's leaders have no plan to cut immigration' inflated and distorted migration figures. The impact of this kind of media rhetoric is not limited to the newspaper stands: it has real-life, divisive consequences. By withdrawing a recent front-page advert from the Daily Express, you have recognised that what your brand appears alongside, matters. We call on you to take this further and withdraw all financial and symbolic support for a newspaper that is notorious for inciting racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia.
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  • Sweatshop Free Campaign Sheffield
    Electronics Watch is 'an independent monitoring organisation that assists public sector buyers to meet their responsibility to protect the labour rights of workers in their global electronics supply chains more effectively and less expensively than any single public sector buyer could accomplish on its own'. People & Planet Sheffield believe that the electronic equipment that we all make use of in university and around the world should be sourced and manufactured without the use of slave labour and sweatshops and affiliating to Electronics Watch gives the University of Sheffield a great chance of being a leader in this change.
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  • Save Clay Cross Hospital
    This hospital was built several years ago to support the local area, the building hosts all types of day clinics etc. One ward has been closed for a long time,and now the trust are looking to close down the other ward. In the past people have been discharged from the main hospital to here, one step closer to home. Its been well looked after and is very modern inside, plenty of free parking. The nearest Hospital is Calow which is 2 bus rides away, so it is vital to keep this hospital open for local people. You can read about the plans for better care closer to home at the following link http://www.joinedupcare.org.uk Please support the staff and nurses to keep their jobs, and the hospital open ! My question are we going back in time?
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  • Scrap the bedroom tax for all disabled households
    Families where the spouse of a disabled adult are already on an extremely low income so having to pay the bedroom tax, which carers for children where for example one parent may be earning an adequate wage are already exempted from, is not only discriminatory, it leads to further financial pressure on top of the stress of being a carer.
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  • Save Our Boatyard
    Historic boatyard which is part of Tonbridge's history and culture. It provide a haven for wildlife and a green corridor, The boaters are part of the local and wider community
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  • Dyspraxia
    I want them to have a debate on dyspraxia and I will cripple and it is to people suffering from this condition. Plus I want them to treat it as a separate condition completely independent of dyslexia I would like to see a low where it makes educational establishment such as universities and schools. Because at the moment the educational establishment say a lot of it is the same as dyslexia. But this condition has many more parts to it than dyslexia. I find in many educational institutes that they fail to treat dyspraxia raise a different condition.
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  • Save Knottingly Sports Centre
    To continue with existing health benefits that a sports centre provides to local people. If this centre closes then the nearest one will be over an hours travel away via two busses. People will simply stop going to sports centres. Besides that I have a child with special needs who uses the centre three times a week. Taking this centre away from him and his friends will do more than simply take away their sports centre. It is their main chance to socialise and spend time with friends.
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  • Reopen Parklands high school Speke
    Our children and hundreds of others are travelling miles every day on buses to get to school from Speke . Many of them being bullied on the buses and some even assaulted . There is a perfectly good new school building in Speke which the council closed . The council are still paying for this building yearly and cannot use it for anything else or sell until a few more years have passed . It's important as whilst many kids are travelling miles on public transport every day there could be a school just around the corner of the council reopened it . The council would also save a lot in the long run on bus passes etc and if they're paying for it still it may as well be used for purpose . Hire new staff who are fully documented and away they go . They can waste money on so many things in the UK but can't keep a needed school going .
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  • Don't Stop the bus going to Cavendish from Sunnyhill Derby
    It is so important because many people use the bus to go to Cavendish to do shopping and also to visit the remaining post office in this area. People also use this bus for work. The changes mean people have to struggle on and off the bus rather than having a trip straight through. This of course causes problems for everyone, especially disabled, elderly and mothers with young children in push chairs or prams.
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