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We campaign for change on the issues that matter to our readers and listeners and fight for wrongs to be righted. From The Sun's Jabs Army to The Times Clean Air for All campaign, The Sunday Times' Justice for Families campaign and Virgin Radio Pride UK, we continue to work for a fairer society.
The Sun - Jabs Army
The Sun’s Jabs Army campaign set out to recruit 50,000 Sun readers as volunteers to help the NHS with their vaccination programme. After two weeks, The Sun had its 50,000 volunteers and the backing of big british businesses and cross party support from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer.
In Nov 2021 The Sun relaunched Jabs army signing up a further 30,000 to help with the booster vaccination effort.
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The Times - Clean Air For All
The Times’ Clean Air for All Campaign set bold targets designed to help save lives and reduce new cases of lung and heart disease. The campaign has conducted new analysis, and put pressure on the Government to include measures to address air pollution in the Environment Bill, campaigning for a legally binding deadline to improve air quality everywhere in the UK with other wins including a ban on the sale of bags of coal and wet wood for domestic fires banned in England under plans to remove a huge source of air pollution.
With more than a dozen front page stories on air pollution since launching its own manifesto, several Times leaders and almost 100 other articles have been linked to the campaign. It also resulted in the landmark judgement in December 2020 on clean air that ruled Ella Kissi-Debrah's death, who had severe asthma, was due to the failure to reduce pollution levels to legal limits.
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Fabulous - Had Our Fill
The Sun’s Fabulous brand launched the Had Our Fill campaign to crackdown on unregulated cosmetic fillers as millions of women put themselves at risk of permanent deformity and lethal infections by having facial fillers.
The campaign also helped to raise awareness to help women make safer, more informed choices, with Fabulous is calling for:
- fillers to be made illegal for under-18s
- a crackdown on social media sites plugging fillers
- a Government-backed central register for practitioners with accredited qualifications.
Working closely with MPs and celebrity supporters, Had Our Fill had many wins including fillers and botox being made illegal to under 18s and lip filler ads targeting teens being banned, with ministers praising the Sun campaign.
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Virgin Radio Pride UK
Virgin Radio Pride UK launched in June 2021 and covered a range of important topics through its programming, promoting discussions on queer culture, how COVID and lockdown has made us change our ideas about of the queer scene, to LGBTQ+ representation in rock music, a programme on the Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida and a special with Skin from Skunk Anansie, chatting about growing up black and gay in the white dominated world of rock.
The station also brought to life Pride festivals around the UK, partnering with local Pride celebrations from various places including Blackpool, Oxford, Grampian, Liverpool, Norwich, the Isle of Wight and many more and due to its success will continue to broadcast throughout the summer months to bring together the LGBTQ+ community.
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The Sun & Domestic Violence
The Sun has worked closely with Women’s Aid over a sustained period of time, helping to raise awareness of issues and helping shape the Domestic Abuse Bill. MP Jess Phillips thanked The Sun for campaigning for the law to protect migrant women from domestic abuse, and Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Nicole Jacobs highlighted The Sun for helping to keep the pressure on politicians to make the legislation much stronger.
This follows years of powerful and hugely successful campaigns such as ‘Give me Shelter’ campaigning for new refuges, running the stories of ALL the women who had been killed in a year highlighting how domestic violence can affect anyone no matter their location, race or class.
The campaign was backed by Conservative MP Theresa May and Labour MP Jess Phillips who both said this work led to the law change, and with George Osborne calling it the campaign that grabbed his attention the most that year.
In February, The Sun teamed up with Women’s Aid to launch the #NoMeansNo campaign, calling for greater awareness around consent, exploring what consent is, how to talk to your children about it – and telling the devastating stories of survivors of domestic abuse.
In August, The Sun launched a new joint campaign between The Sun and Women’s Aid, ‘Speak Out’, to highlight how we can all play a part in tackling domestic abuse.
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talkSPORT & the Super League
talkSPORT cemented itself as the fan’s favourite with its agenda-setting coverage of the collapse of the European Super League.
talkSPORT led the way on breaking the news of Ed Woodward’s resignation and the unravelling of plans for the European Super League which has been hugely unpopular with fans and campaigned against the league.
talkSPORT’s tweet breaking the news went around the world and got a whopping 11 million impressions generating a record 20,000 new followers on the back of it.
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The Sunday Times - Justice for Families
The Sunday Times’ Justice For Families campaign has uncovered a scandal hidden behind the closed doors of social services departments and the family courts. It has been revealed how heavy handed child protection had become in the wake of Baby P, leading to many more innocent families being separated from their babies.
The campaign has prompted a national review of policies on child protection responses to bruising in infants and has informed a government review into the children’s care system.
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The Sunday Times - Dying with Dignity
The Sunday Times believes that everyone should be entitled to dignity in death and choice at the end of life, regardless of status.
In May 2021 The Sunday Times launched a campaign to legalise assisted dying and change this country’s legislation, passed 60 years ago, which denies people these basic rights.
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