Successful Campaigns

UPDATE - GuilFest 2014 tickets are now on sale and as a thank you for all your support to help make this happen tickets are at a special rate for a limited time (weekend with camping tickets are £30 cheaper than the last GuilFest!). These tickets are limited so please get in quick and show your support once more :) More information and tickets are available at www.guilfest.co.uk Once again thank you for helping to bring back our festival - we could not have done it without you.

16/10/17 - We won! Thank you for signing the petition Stop bus route changes to service 3 and 4, started by myself. I am delighted to say that Susan Elan Jones MP has released a statement this morning confirming the return of the services to the estate as of January or a trial basis. The service will be 1 per hour, which is sensible. Thank you to John Phillips and Susan Elan Jones for their work on this. Thank you to everyone who supported this petition.

UPDATE - 11/10/16 - We won. We all knew from the outset that Gladman Homes’ plan to place 275 houses on land in Shurnhold was wholly unsuitable for our area. We worried about the effect it would have on flooding, on traffic, on school places, and on the nature and feel of our community. So we objected. We sent our objections to Gladman Homes, we signed this petition, we wrote to Wiltshire County Council. The Council listened to us, and agree that we were right, and so the Council turned down the application. But that was not the end of it. Gladman appealed to the Secretary of State. A two-week planning inquiry took place over the summer, which took into account the objections we had all made, and where evidence was heard from local residents. The Planning Inspector then went away to consider the evidence, and she has now published her decision, rejecting the application. So there you have it. Our voice has been heard, and working together we have won. Thank you. Mark Ashkowski

The threat of privatisation has been removed after the MoD decided to keep veterans services in the public sector.

UPDATE: 6/11/14: A victory! Plans to quarry in Hopwas Woods have been withdrawn because of public opposition. This is really great news for everyone who supported the campaign by signing the petition and getting involved through the Facebook page. You can read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-29854109

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!

30/04/18 - We were successful!!! Thank you all for your support. The CCG commented that they had never received so much feedback before. Vasectomies will continue to be funded, and female sterilisation will still be available on the NHS when alternative long acting forms of contraception have been exhausted. There are still restrictions on IVF but the CCG has made concessions. I received great support from the Women's Forum of Bath Labour party, and I don't think this campaign would have been successful without their hard work. Protect our NHS Bath was also a valuable support. Thank you all for getting involved. We presented a printout of the petition to the CCG at their public meeting and it seems to have had a real impact. In the course of the campaign, we learnt that BANES has a funding shortfall of £6 million for the next financial year. I will continue to monitor threats to services and continue to campaign for transparency around a publicly funded comprehensive NHS, free at the point of delivery. Thank you all again. With best wishes, Maddy Piper

6/4/21 The DWP has finally agreed that an audio recording facility will be introduced for all Personal Independence Payment assessments. There is a good article on this development in the Disability News Service at https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/audio-recording-option-set-to-be-introduced-for-all-pip-assessments-says-dwp/ This supplements the audio recording facility already introduced for Work Capability Assessments (for Employment & Support Allowance, or Universal Credit), which is described here https://www.chdauk.co.uk/faq/finding-help/how-do-i-request-audio-recorded-assessment Thank you for your support for the small part that we have been able to play in winning this concession from the DWP. John Pearson, for Stockport United Against Austerity

We need the 8AOT service! Hucknall people need this service - it is affordable, reliable and those in the West (Ruffs, Beauvale etc) of Hucknall really need this service as they do not have a bus service they can easily reach which can get them around Hucknall estates and Nottingham. SIGN & SHARE

Problem sorted