Our 2025 impact: what you made happen

Let’s be honest: 2025 has been a bit of a rollercoaster. It’s easy to feel like the world is just happening to us.. But look a little closer, and you see a different story.

Because this year, whenever greed, division, or injustice tried to take hold, those behind it ran into us. All of us. We didn’t just make noise. We made history. Grab a cuppa and take a look at what the 38 Degrees community pulled off together this year.

When you get enough of us together, we’re pretty unstoppable. We stood in the way of bad ideas, we shouted from the rooftops for good ones, and we made sure the people in power knew they couldn’t ignore us. None of that happened by magic. It happened because you clicked, signed, donated, and refused to sit back and watch.

Saving our bees

We kicked off the year with a huge win for our bees. For five years, experts were ignored while toxic pesticides were allowed on our fields. But thanks to your support – and the 116,000 of us who signed the petition – the new Government listened! They kept the ban in place, and our pollinators are safe.

700,000 new dental appointments

We made some serious noise about the state of NHS dentistry – and it paid off fast. Just weeks after 250,000 of us handed in our petition, the Government announced 700,000 new urgent appointments. It’s a massive first step to fixing the crisis, and it’s all down to pressure from people like you.

Lighting up London

We lit up London’s iconic landmarks – from Westminster to Tower Bridge – to tell billionaires like Elon Musk they can’t buy our democracy. Your donations made that stunt happen, and the Government got the message that they need to kick the ultra-rich out of our politics.

Fighting against disability benefit cuts

When the Government tried to slash benefits for sick and disabled people, you didn’t let them get away with it. You flooded MPs’ inboxes and stuck ad vans right under their noses. And they blinked. Thanks to your pressure, they had to significantly water down the cuts and make real concessions. We won’t stop fighting until everyone gets the support they need, but that was a massive result.

Silencing the silencers

For too long, dodgy bosses have been using legal threats to gag staff who’ve faced harassment at work. It’s nasty stuff. But together, we said enough is enough. Teaming up with Louise Haigh MP, 93,576 of us signed a huge petition to demand change – and it worked! The Government announced they’re banning this toxic practice. That’s a massive win for fairness, and you helped make it happen.

Crashing Trump’s party

We disrupted Donald Trump’s golf visit. With the world watching, thousands of you chipped in for bold newspaper ads saying “Don’t give Trump the 2028 Open!” It went viral, the paper ran out of copies, and we proved we won’t roll out the red carpet for hate.

Standing up for Gaza

We refused to look away. Hundreds of thousands of us took action – demanding an end to military support and pushing Starmer to get urgent food aid into Gaza. It’s a small step, but a vital message that we won’t just stand by while people suffer.

Refugees Welcome

We didn’t let the hate win. Instead, we stuck “Refugees Welcome” posters up in our windows to show our neighbours they’ve got friends here. It was a simple but powerful way to share a bit of love with people who really needed to see it.

Press regulation, actually

We teamed up with Hugh Grant to take on press bullies. 35,000 of us backed the call for a new law to protect ordinary people from harassment, and we took that message right to the Government’s door at the Labour Party Conference.

A 💩 cake (yes, really!)

We delivered a giant poo emoji cake right to Southern Water’s boss. Why? Because he bagged a £1.4m pay packet while pumping sewage into our waters. 50,000 of us signed the spoof “congratulations” card to show him exactly what we think of his bonus: it stinks.

Scrapping the cruel cap

This was a massive moment. For years, the two-child benefit limit has been trapping families in hardship. But in November’s Budget, our pressure paid off. The Government announced the limit is finally being scrapped – lifting 450,000 children out of poverty. It’s a life-changing victory, and it shows what happens when we demand a country that puts kids first.