On the International Day of Charity – 5 September 2024 – Campaign Collective is celebrating the many charities we have worked with this year and the important work they do in combating poverty, tackling inequality, and campaigning for social justice.
Through the Warm This Winter campaign and End Fuel Poverty Coalition, we have coordinated with over 50 charity and campaigning partners from Green Alliance to Age UK to campaign for a fairer energy system for everyone. These organisations are working together to call on the government to fix Britain’s broken energy system by investing in homegrown clean energy, insulating our leaky homes and getting us off expensive oil and gas to bring down bills for good.
In the past year, these coalitions have championed households struggling in energy debt, highlighted the blight of cold, damp, mouldy homes, campaigned for better energy efficiency standards for rented properties and succeeded in halting the forced installation of prepayment meters for vulnerable people.
Campaign Collective’s work with cancer charity Melanoma Focus has seen us highlight the dangers of sunbed usage and the impacts of burning in childhood as well as campaigning for the UK government to abolish VAT on suncare products, reclassifying SPF 30+ as a daily skincare essential rather than a luxury product – a call which has been taken up by the British Beauty Council and beauty retailers Look Fantastic and Superdrug.
We have worked with the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) to raise awareness of the UK’s deadliest cancers and give a voice to those patients and their families who have received a terminal diagnosis.
Other charity partnerships this year include work with The Scottish Rewilding Alliance, International Menopause Society, Mums For Lungs, the Sickle Cell Society, British Liver Trust, Hestia, NurtureUK, Parents for Future and the Children’s Charities Coalition.
Campaign Collective founder member, Heather Rogers, who co-chairs the Warm This Winter communications working group, said:
“We are incredibly lucky to have worked with so many inspiring charities who are doing hugely valuable work in such diverse sectors. In setting up Campaign Collective eight years ago, we pledged to partner with organisations which deliver a public benefit and nowhere do we see this so clearly exemplified than through these charities.
“Today, we also recognise the contribution of our many members who volunteer in their spare time, helping their local communities and supporting causes close to their hearts.”