Successful Campaigns

UPDATE: 16/09/15 I am pleased to announce that thanks to pressure placed on the Department For Education and Mr Gibb specifically, the DFE has announced plans for the introduction of new Film Studies and Media Studies A level specifications from September 2017. You can contribute to the public consultation on these new qualifications by clicking on the link below. Thanks to you all for signing the petition and your contribution in ensuring that these important qualifications will continue to be offered to students in future. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ofqual-launches-further-consultation-on-reformed-qualifcations-for-2017

The museum is saved! After more than 45,000 people signed petitions to protect the science museums in the north of England, Culture minister Ed Vaizey announced that the museums would not be given the proposed 10% budget cut and that there was "no question of them closing." The MP for York Central said: "All the campaigning and all the warnings sent to the government that it would be an act of cultural vandalism if one of these museums were to close appears to have been heeded." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22948171

UPDATE - 15/03/17 It's official - Didcot's Ladygrove Park is saved! No Tech Campus, no flats, no 50% gone. Yippee! There's still more to do to make sure its a permanent reprieve, but now is a time to celebrate and for me to thank you all for your support. So come down to the park and enjoy yourself - you've earned it!

On 17 March 2021, Transport Secretary Michael Matheson finally announced that the ScotRail franchise will be brought back into public ownership from 1 April 2022, when Abellio's contract ends. Thanks to everyone who signed our petition, first launched the day after the Independence Referendum in September 2014. It has been a long fight, but we did it!!

**UPDATE** Thank you to all who signed and supported the #WelshBooksMatter campaign. We are thrilled to announce that Ken Skates and the Welsh Government have released a statement this afternoon (20/01/16) stating that there will be no cut to the Welsh Books Council’s grant for 2016/17. The campaign has therefore been successful and we can’t thank you all enough for your support.

Planning decision went in our favour and the site is now safe

Chester Council agreed to drop their plans to fine the homeless using PSPO's. Read more here - http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/chester-council-drops-rough-sleeping-10462772

We Won! The Council have withdrawn their plans for sell off, and given us a lease whilst we discuss the long-term future

We win the co-op is Staying open

14/03/17 We won! It's just been announced: "Founded in 1744, Muirfield golf club will finally allow female members with immediate effect." https://twitter.com/JamieRoss7/status/841613192522522624