I am Head Teacher of Broomhill Junior School and I want to overturn the decision by the Local Authority to demolish two of our classrooms. I want to keep them and develop an Enhanced Provision Unit to support children with Special Needs. I have been at the school as a Senior Leader for over 32 years. I have lived and breathed the school in this time. I am a Head Teacher who is part of the community and who is trusted by the community. I know what the community needs because I listen to people's views, thoughts and opinions. I am not prepared to just accept this decision. I have always led the school with a strong moral purpose and done what is right for the children. The decision to demolish is wrong and will have a negative impact on many future generations of children at Broomhill.

Corporate greed has turned our love for our pets into a cash cow. Big companies are buying up local vets and hiking up prices, while struggling households are forced into debt for pet care they could be getting for a fraction of the cost. But right now, we have a once-in-a-generation chance to break the corporate stranglehold on vet care. New proposed reforms could cap what vets can charge us. But the corporate vet lobby is already piling on the pressure to water down the proposal before they come into effect. We only have weeks to mobilise and secure these new rules from those who want to keep charging us eye-watering overheads.  Corporate chains now quietly own about 60% of all UK vet practices, but they often hide their branding. So you might think you’re supporting a local independent vet, while actually paying massive corporate mark-ups. Vet costs increased by a staggering 63% between 2016 and 2023, and nearly 1 in 4 pet owners have skipped meals or kept their heating off to keep up with pet costs. Meanwhile, vets are holding us hostage, charging upwards of £30 just to write a prescription on a piece of paper. The good news? The proposed regulations could force vets to publish clear price lists, provide written estimates for bills over £500, and, critically, cap prescription fees at £21.  But the clock is ticking to lock in these life-saving reforms. Acting right now can make the difference between families all over the country keeping their beloved pets, and being forced to say a heartbreaking goodbye. Sign the petition in support of affordable pet care, and share it with every pet owner you know – let’s build the biggest petition for our four-legged friends in UK history! 

It's unnecessary and dangerous for insects, other wildlife, dogs and humans.  We need to stop thinking that 'neat' is necessary, nature is not 'neat'. Having longer grass near trees is not unsightly and very rarely is it dangerous to highway users. If you must remove the grass around trees for safety reasons hand cutters do the job just fine.  Glyphosate  is a highly toxic chemical that damages plants, is one of the main causes of the diminishing bee population and has been known to make wildlife and dogs very sick or even kill them.  It also damages the Mycorrhizal fungi that trees and plants use to communicate with each other as well as  the quality of the soil. This is turn damages the tree over years.  The World Health Organization classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans” in 2015. A group of experts concluded in March that “glyphosate and GBHs [glyphosate-based herbicides] cause genetic damage, oxidative stress and hormonal disruption”. “Regulatory agencies in countries around the world should treat glyphosate and GBHs as hazardous, as some countries have started to do,” the experts said. “Agencies should act without further delay to limit their use, or eliminate them if legally required, to protect public health.” Please stop spraying glyphosate or any weedkiller where there are alternatives available which are safer to wildlife and people. And please stop the unnecessary killing of wide areas of grass by using quad-bike sprayers instead of spray-guns which target the growth you need to kill off.

Thousands of ordinary people are facing cancelled family holidays due to the current fuel crisis, while private jet travel for the ultra-rich carries on as usual. It’s absolutely outrageous. Why should we take the hit while the richest few keep jetting about on ultra-polluting flights that use many times more fuel? Scrapping them during this crisis would save enough fuel to allow hundreds of thousands of families to go on holiday this summer. Sign this petition today to ground private jets and protect our holidays!

Offshore oil and gas pollutes UK seas and harms ocean wildlife. It also makes the UK dependent on unpredictable and volatile fossil fuel markets, and subject to price shocks created by global conflict. We are on the cusp of enshrining in law the end to oil and gas in UK seas. Now is our once-in-generation chance to make it happen. The government should hold true to its commitment to end new oil and gas exploration. The future of clean seas, marine wildlife, renewable energy security, North Sea prosperity and thriving coastal communities depends on it. Where oil goes, spills follow.  In 2025 there were more than 630 oil and chemical spills in UK seas, including oil spills directly in marine protected areas. Toxic pollution is harming our wildlife and could also end up in the fish that we eat. Whales and dolphins that rely on sound for hunting and communication are deafened by sonic booms used to search for oil deep beneath the sea floor. Fragile deep sea corals and rare marine life is torn apart for pipelines and smothered by sediments released by drilling. New oil won’t cut bills. The reality is that there is very little oil or gas left in the North Sea. What remains is difficult, dangerous, and expensive to extract and would be sold on the volatile international market, by private companies to maximise profits. New oil would only shackle the UK to more price shocks and uncertainty. Instead, government must hold the line on clean, green, and ever cheaper, renewable energy.  The government has promised it will ban new oil and gas with legislation but the fossil fuel lobby is desperate to maintain the status quo. We must act now. Tell the government: bring in the ban and stop new oil licences once and for all. You can lead the UK and the world to a cleaner future for our ocean and abundant, secure, renewable energy. For our ocean.  

For the first time in generations, the threat of conscription seems very real. We must act now to oppose it. With heightened debate around insecurity, we are hearing growing calls for the re-introduction of some form of compulsory national service. This would require Parliament to pass a new law, which could legislate for mandatory registration of young people, as is happening in Germany, and/or some form of compulsory national service.   Conscription, if introduced, would primarily target young people, depriving them of liberty and political agency. Members of the armed forces are required to fight, kill and die at the behest of the government.  A series of scandals has revealed high levels of abuse in the armed forces, especially affecting women and people of colour. Military service often has a long-lasting traumatising effect on service personnel and their families.  We reject conscription as a moral affront and an attack on human rights. It deprives young people of choices and opportunity at a vital time in their lives.  To force military service on the population would involve a colossal waste of funds. During a cost of living crisis these resources are desperately needed elsewhere. With war escalating around the world and record number of civilian casualties, now is the time to stand up for peaceful and cooperative approaches to conflict resolution. Joining the armed forces is a political and moral choice that should never be forced on anyone. As a matter of urgency, the government must rule out reintroducing military conscription in the UK! The petition is organised by the UK working group for International Conscientious Objectors' Day - a coalition of 13 peace organisations.

The  Humanitarian Story:  I grew up watching people carry burdens they did not create. From childhood, I saw the poor, the overlooked, and the unprotected suffer indignity — not because of who they were, but because of the systems built around them. Those early experiences shaped me. They taught me that injustice is never abstract. It lives in bodies, in families, in communities, in silence. The Trans‑Atlantic Slave Trade is the deepest silence of all. Millions of people were taken, traded, insured, shipped, worked, punished, and killed — and yet the world still does not hold the full record of what happened to them. Their names, their origins, their deaths, their stories remain scattered, hidden, or locked away in archives. Entire families across Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora still cannot trace their ancestors. Entire nations still live with the consequences of a history that has never been fully told. I have spent my life trying to understand why society keeps repeating the same patterns of inequality, extraction, and dehumanisation. And the truth is simple: When you hide the past, you protect the systems that grew from it. This petition is not about blame. It is about dignity. It is about the right of every human being to know the truth of their own history. It is about the right of descendants to reclaim what was taken — not wealth, but identity. It is about the right of the world to understand how deeply the slave trade shaped our modern systems, economies, and inequalities. If we do not open these records, the silence continues. If we do not open these records, the descendants remain cut off from their own story. If we do not open these records, the world keeps pretending that the past is “too complicated” to face. I believe in a humanitarian future — one built on truth, transparency, and human dignity. Releasing these records is the first step. It is the moment where we stop looking away and start looking honestly. This matters to me because I have seen what happens when people are denied their history. And I refuse to let that continue.

All across the UK people have been increasingly leaving non biodegradable memorial objects and ritual offerings at sacred sites, circles, wells and henges. This has now reached epidemic proportions and is unsustainable. The natural environment can no longer bear the weight and impact of this behaviour and it is too big and important an issue for any one person in any one place to tackle alone. This problem calls for joined up thinking from those bodies within and without the Pagan Community to create clear public guidelines for these practices, for structure that promotes better ways of interacting mindfully within our sacred sites. This will be to the benefit of all, but most importantly will safeguard our sacred landscape for future generations to come. 

About 120 years ago the idea of inventing the change of clock from GMT to CET (Central European Time) was put forward be a rich influential selfish person so he could play a few more holes at golf. This change do NOT help anyone, the farmers are put out by this change, so are workers who start work very early in the morning who like to go to bed early, railway timetables, people who find that they are having to travel home in the dark when the previous evening it was still light, shift workers, and many more.

All car drivers should take a 1 day motorbike lesson whilst passing their car test i have had 2 RTC in less than a year none of my fault 2 motorbikes have been written off I have suffered life changing injuries i have 2 rods and a metal plate in my left ankle awaiting knee surgery in my left knee a broken right ankle 12 broken ribs and 1 collapsed lung all because car drivers are to impatient or don't like bikers filtering.  It would make it easier and safer for all car drivers to understand the dangers we face everyday on a motorbike. I see to many bikers going through the same problem more and more bikers are getting injured and this needs to be addressed urgently!!

Pharmacy support staff are essential frontline healthcare workers who have increasingly complex responsibilities, including giving health advice, (sometimes in acute situations), managing medication shortages, handling Pharmacy First consultations, and supporting safe and legal patient care under intense, high-pressure conditions. Despite this, many pharmacy staff are struggling financially, with minimum wage pay that is the same level or even lower than cleaners or shelf replenishers (£12-13/hour) These wages do not reflect the level of accuracy and responsibility we have to bear, or take account of the physical stamina, use of complex software systems, and the cognitive intensity of our work. In addition, the level of pay does not acknowledge the mandatory training in medicines and health that must be taken and completed over 1-2 years minimum, often completed unpaid in our own time.  Pay is not keeping pace with the cost of living, and the high risks we take, leading to low morale, exhaustion, and high burnout. It does not reflect how hard we have to work to a very high standard of accuracy and safety despite short staffing now being the norm. We require: 1. An immediate raise in base hourly pay to recognise the skilled nature of our work and rising responsibilities. 2. A career structure that provides competitive pay rates to attract and retain trained staff, ensuring safe dispensing and counselling. It is time to value the people behind the counter. Our work is essential and very complex, and our pay must reflect that. I am a highly qualified life scientist working in community Pharmacy in the UK, and we are now expected to be an alternative drop in centre for people who can’t access their GP.  People like me are struggling on minimum wage pay, and the complexity and intensity of our work does not reflect what we do on a daily basis whilst being on our feet continuously all day. This situation warrants a complete overhaul. As Pharmacists have to handle more work to provide services, we as support staff have to be even more effective at providing a base level of health advice, signposting, medicine sourcing, and prescription management.  In short, we deserve a better rate of pay than a supermarket till worker, for example. 

Wandsworth Council should also: • Identify all council owned land suitable for community cultivation.  • Make this land available for cultivation by a simple licence to community organisations at no cost. • Consider community food growing on sites awaiting development for other uses on a fixed term basis.  • Adopt the Right to Grow motion and support the Incredible Edible campaign for a national right to grow.  We know we can transform the lives of people in Wandsworth for the better by actively growing food together in our neighbourhoods, as part of building our resilience in a changing world. The biggest obstacle to more local food growing is the lack of available land close to people’s homes.  All around Wandsworth, small parcels of public land are being left unloved, costing taxpayers money to maintain while giving nothing back to the community in return. Community food-growing projects such as Fishponds, Transition Town Tooting Community Gardens, Paradise Cooperative and Bramford Community Gardens, as well as projects that have created havens for wildlife in built-up areas, have shown that with a little TLC these parcels of land can be turned into something far more valuable. In the middle of the cost-of-living crisis, unlocking access to local healthy food could be a lifeline for many communities, offering practical hope for everyone. We think it should be easy for communities to identify this unused public land, and apply for free, straight-forward leases to take on the care of the land. That’s why we are calling on you to give the citizens of Wandsworth a Right to Grow.  Transforming space in urban locations for food growing creates neighbourhoods which are cooler in summer, less polluted, better for our mental and physical health, better for wildlife and encourages local food spend. And, because many of these actions are about giving power to people to shape their community, they turn out to be more sociable and more connected places.