Macmillan Campaigns

  • Help us put the fair into welfare

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hello everyone. I just wanted to let you all know that our welfare reform campaign petition has gone live today! So please help us to ‘put the fair into welfare’ by signing up and spreading the word among your friends, family and colleagues.  The more support we get the stronger our message to politicians will be!

    The proposed shake-up of the benefits system in the Welfare Reform Bill could leave thousands…

  • Put the fair into welfare - campaign update

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi everyone,

    I wanted to update you on our welfare reform campaign and thank you all for your efforts to help us in our work at the Liberal Democrat Party conference.  As you may be aware the Liberal Democrat conference voted on whether their party should oppose the Government's plan to take away a person's Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) after just one year.  If this is implemented those affected could…

  • Putting the fair into welfare - campaign action

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    Hello everyone,
    I’m Sam and I am the public affairs intern at Macmillan.  I have been supporting the public affairs and campaigns teams in their work to influence parliamentarians.  I’m sure many of you are aware of our Putting the Fair into Welfare campaign, which we have been working on for some months now.  The campaign is about to enter a really exciting period and I wanted to update you on our activities…
  • Macmillan's Infi-Knit Scarf Goes To Parliament

    Anonymous
    Anonymous

     

    This week campaigners presented a 127 metre woolly scarf to the fuel poverty minister Greg Barker as part of Macmillan’s Infi-Knit campaign to freeze out fuel poverty for people with cancer.

     


    The scarf petition called for more help so that people with cancer can keep warm without the worry. Over 5,000 people took action helping to make our digitally knit scarf 127 metres long.  
    On receiving the scarf, Gregg…
  • Putting the Fair into Welfare: Webchat on Wednesday 15th June

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hello everyone,

    I'm sure that you are aware of  our Welfare Reform Campaign, and hopefully you have taken action and emailed your MP using our handy pre-filled in form or submitted your own story via AudioBoo. If not there’s still time, just click here to take action.

    If you want to know more about what the reforms could mean for you or what you can do to help us to out the Fair into Welfare, then this webchat…