Macmillan Campaigns

  • 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…

  • Car Parking- Your Experience

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    I’m Jess and I am the Campaigns Intern at Macmillan. I joined the team about a month ago and I have been learning all about the different campaigns that Macmillan have; in particular Welfare Reform, Fuel Poverty and Hospital Car Parking.
    One of my projects since I started has been to gather information on car parking charges at every hospital in England- about 300 hospitals which is taking a good amount of time…
  • Will your MP speak out against benefit cuts for cancer patients?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember
    It’s a really exciting time at Macmillan Campaigns HQ: the Welfare Reform Bill is about to go into report stage, and this is our final chance to influence MPs to change the bill before it moves to the House of Lords. We need your help to put the fair into welfare and make sure that those affected with cancer don’t lose out on the support they need.
    You can ask your MP to speak out against these cuts for cancer…
  • Made it! - Infi-Knit at the North Pole!

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    After Royal encounters, runways that split in two and blizzards that seemed determined prevent our intrepid doctor from even BEGINNING his trip across the frozen Arctic Ocean to the North Pole, everything fell in to place!

     

    After a catching a lift from an old Soviet helicopter with the rest of the team, Dr. Joe Geraghty (wrapped in his section of Infi-Knit scarf) began his trek across the ice and snow towards the very…