New campaign aims to make Scotland the world’s first rewilding nation

Campaign Collective is supporting a new campaign, launched today, calling for Scotland to declare itself the world’s first rewilding nation. The Rewilding Nation Charter is urging people from all walks of life to sign and ask the Scottish Government to commit to nature recovery across 30% of land and sea. Scotland is currently one of …

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Campaign Collective supports recruitment campaign at charity Hestia

Campaign Collective partnered with HR consultant Rachel Meakins to create, define and deliver an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for life beyond crisis charity, Hestia, to help them retain and attract new employees. Starting as an internal communications brief, the project engaged with Hestia employees from all services and areas, to listen to what it is to …

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Politicians don’t understand us, say nation’s children

The Children’s Charities Coalition has released new data today, which highlights that children feel politicians don’t understand their lives and aren’t listening to them as the country prepares for a General Election. The charities surveyed 1,000 children and 1,000 adults and the results from children found that:  62% of UK children think that politicians don’t …

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UK survival ranks among the worst in the world for deadliest cancers

UK cancer survival rates lag significantly behind other countries according to research shared today by the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT). The Taskforce, which represents six less survivable cancers: lung, liver, brain, oesophageal, pancreatic and stomach, with an average five-year survival rate of just 16%, has released the findings on Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day …

Millions of people at risk from mould in their homes

A third (29%) of the UK population experiences mould in their homes frequently or occasionally as Britain’s energy crisis bites hard. The new data is based on research by Opinium and Campaign Collective for the Warm This Winter campaign [1] and reveals that 10% experience mouldy living conditions frequently. Among the major cities, the data …

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Calls for VAT to be removed from sunscreen

A group of charities, cross-party politicians, patients and medical professionals have handed a petition to the Government calling on them to abolish VAT on factor 30+ sunscreen to make it more affordable and reduce cases of skin cancer. The VAT Burn campaign is a response to the rising number of skin cancer deaths in the …

‘Life and Death’ impact of sickle cell nursing shortage

The Sickle Cell Society has published a report highlighting dangerous shortages in the sickle cell nursing workforce in England. The Difference Between Life and Death report follows a 2021 All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia inquiry into sickle cell care which found ‘serious care failings’ in acute services and evidence of attitudes …

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Putting children at the heart of government

Five of the largest charities working to support children and young people in the UK have come together to call for the next UK Government to put babies, children and young people at the heart of Government policy making, backed by a step-change in investment to transform childhoods across the UK. Action for Children, Barnardo’s, …

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Call for Emergency Energy Tariff as vulnerable households fear the winter

Campaign Collective supports the call for an Emergency Energy Tariff through its work with the Warm This Winter campaign.  The energy bills crisis is now predicted to be so severe that a wide range of health, poverty, housing and environmental organisations and academics have written to Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt MP, to request the introduction of …

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Dramatic rise in liver cancer rates linked to poverty

Liver Cancer UK, part of the British Liver Trust, has released new findings, as part of Liver Cancer Awareness Month, which show that liver cancer is rising dramatically across the country and especially in areas of economic deprivation.  Their analysis of NHS data for 2020 found that the incidence of liver cancer in England was …