Grenfell: we are being heard

1 Oct 18

A message from Grenfell United via 38 Degrees: Today has been emotional. Housing Minister James Brokenshire has just announced a ban on dangerous combustible building materials, like the cladding that was used on Grenfell tower. The government has chosen to put people before profit and...

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Walkers Crisps Campaign – We’re in the news

27 Sep 18

BREAKING: the campaign to get Walkers crisps to ditch plastic packaging is headline news!  Because hundreds of thousands of us got involved, every newspaper and TV screen is talking about the millions of Walkers crisp packets polluting our beaches and rivers. Robin Priestley from 38...

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#PacketInWalkers – Post your plastic packet back to Walkers

21 Sep 18

By 2025 – the year Walkers Crisps has promised to go plastic free – they’ll have produced 28 billion more plastic packets that will litter our beaches, our streets, and pile up in landfills. Hundreds of thousands of us have signed the petition, and our call for...

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Pankhurst statue: Handing in the petition

14 Sep 18

On Wednesday 12th September, 38 Degrees-er Jacquie handed her petition into the City of Westminster Council. She was joined by dozens of supporters dressed in suffragette colours and carried a box full of 178,000 signatures from 38 Degrees-ers up and down the country. The petition...

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Messages to Esther McVey about the Pensions Dashboard

6 Sep 18

Thanks to a campaign by 38 Degrees members, the government is being forced to deliver a public service website that will help us all keep track of our pensions – called a “pensions dashboard”. They tried to “kill off” the dashboard and millions of people...

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More than 70,000 say ‘Keep Pankhurst in Parliament’

23 Aug 18

A petition calling on Westminster City Council to stop the removal of a statue of legendary suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst from the grounds of Parliament has reached over 70,000 signatures. 38 Degrees member, Jacquie Hawkins from Epsom, started the campaign after discovering plans to move the...

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