Successful Campaigns

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Successful Campaigns
  • Ban the Grand National or make it safer
    Aintree racecourse have made safety improvements to the Grand National race in 2024. This includes reducing the number of horses running from 40 to 34 and bringing the start time forward to improve the Aintree ground. Despite these welcome new safety measures for the feature race, two horses still sadly died during the 3 day meet. We hope that Aintree racecourse will continue their progress and consider how the Grand National race in 2025 could be even safer. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/racing/grand-national-2024-safety-changes-horses-b2528159.html https://www.express.co.uk/sport/horseracing/1887883/Grand-National-Festival-Pikar-dead-Giovinco
    42,583 Signatures
    Created by Sylvia Clelland
  • Bring back Britain's rainforests in your newly inherited estate!
    We won! Incredibly, our campaigning seems to be working: in 2023 the Duchy of Cornwall agreed to our petition to expand Dartmoor’s temperate rainforest. The Crown Estate (the biggest of the Royal Estates) announced its first ever beaver release. And now, the unthinkable: even the king’s beloved Balmoral, once a bastion of bloodsports, is set to get its first rewilding project. https://www.wildcard.land/rewild-the-royals.html ​Read our Guardian article celebrating our successes here. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/28/revolt-royals-rewilding-rainforest-beaver-balmoral
    77,039 Signatures
    Created by Wild Card Picture
  • Stop gambling suicides, publish the Gambling Act white paper.
    The white paper was published! But there is still work to be done https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/26/gambling-uk-white-paper-online-casinos
    90,862 Signatures
    Created by Annie Ashton
  • Don't raise the state pension age to 75
    A recent tweet from the DWP says this will not be government policy! But we'll be keeping an eye out to make sure, in the event of a snap election, plans to raise the pension age don't make it into any party manifestos.
    233,853 Signatures
  • Wilko: don’t scrap sick pay
    Wilko scraps plan to cut sick pay for 21,000 staff! https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/coronavirus-wilko-scraps-plan-cut-21745338
    134,744 Signatures
    Created by Antonia Short
  • Pay the real Living Wage to Mitie Cleaners NOW
    We won! On Friday the 11th of October after more than 80,000 of us piled in we managed to get these cleaners the real Living Wage!
    83,892 Signatures
    Created by RMT Union Picture
  • Hull Paragon Station - keep the station accessible for disabled people! keep the gate open!
    TransPennine Express have reopened the gate! https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-paragon-reopen-anlaby-road-3193164
    53,728 Signatures
    Created by Tracy Dearing
  • Ban the import of hunting trophies
    10/12/21 FINALLY, A WIN FOR WILD ANIMALS After decades of campaigning and years of waiting, Born Free welcomes UK Government plans to end the legal import of trophies from hundreds of wild animals, shot for ‘fun’. Read more here: https://www.bornfree.org.uk/news/uk-trophy-import-ban
    223,819 Signatures
    Created by Born Free
  • In support of Diversity's BGT performance
    The closing of the petition was preempted by the decision of OfCom to not humour the complainants by punishing or admonishing ITV for the broadcasting of the performance by Diversity. The petition was submitted to OfCom, nonetheless, and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who signed I have no doubt that the existence of of these various petitions will have influenced OfCom to come to the right decision
    19,075 Signatures
    Created by Stax Volt