Charities/Campaigning Organisations
38 Degrees
38 Degrees is a new organisation which brings you together with other people to take action on the issues that matter to you and bring about real change in the UK.
Action for South Africa
Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) campaigns with the people of Southern Africa as they strive to build a better future. Working for peace, democracy and development across the region, ACTSA is the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement.
Baby Milk Action
Baby Milk Action is a non-profit organisation, which aims to save lives and to end the avoidable suffering caused by inappropriate infant feeding.
Banana Link
Banana Link aims to alleviate poverty and prevent further environmental degradation in banana exporting communities and to work towards a sustainable banana economy.
Black Environmental Network
BEN is established to promote equality of opportunity with respect to ethnic communities in the preservation protection and development of the environment.
BOND
BOND is a network of more than 290 UK based voluntary organisations working in international development and development education.
Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation
Palm Oil, an ingredient found in many everyday products, is contributing to the rapid destruction of rainforests. Orangutan habitat in Sumatra and Borneo is being clear-felled at an alarming rate for conversion to oil palm plantations.
BTCV
BTCV is the UK’s leading charity creating better environments where people feel valued, included and involved.
CAFOD
We believe all human beings have a right to dignity and respect, and that the world’s resources are a gift to be shared equally by all men and women, whatever their race, nationality or religion. Our mission is to promote human development and social justice in witness to Christian faith and Gospel values.
Campaign Against Arms Trade
The Campaign Against Arms Trade is working for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade, together with progressive demilitarisation within arms- producing countries.
Campaign to Protect Rural England
We are people who care passionately about our countryside and campaign for it to be protected and enhanced for the benefit of everyone.
Centre for British Teachers
CfBT’s objective is to advance education for the public benefit.
Common Ground
Common Ground is internationally recognised for playing a unique role in the arts and environmental fields, distinguished by the linking of nature with culture, focussing upon the positive investment people can make in their own localities, championing popular democratic involvement, and by inspiring celebration as a starting point for action to improve the quality of our everyday places.
Cool Temperate
Provides plants and services for a sustainable world.
CounterCorp
CounterCorp seeks to document, reduce, and ultimately prevent the corrosive political, economic, and social effects that large corporations have in the U.S. and around the world.
The Ecologist
The Ecologist is the world’s most respected environmental affairs magazine.
Eco-Village Network UK
Our object is to promote sustainable settlement for all by acting as an information resource and news service.
Environmental Investigation Agency
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an international campaigning organisation committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime.
Environmental Justice Foundation
EJF provides film and advocacy training to individuals and grassroots organisations in the global south, enabling them to document, expose and create long term solutions to environmental abuses.
Ethical Investment Research Service
The Ethical Investment Research Service provides independent research into corporate behaviour to enable ethical investors to make informed and responsible investment decisions.
European Youth For Action
Our main aim is to encourage people’s initiative and autonomy; people feeling empowered to act and to raise their voices in decision making processes that effect their lives.
Fair Trade Foundation
The Fairtrade Foundation was established in 1992 by CAFOD, Christian Aid, New Consumer, Oxfam, Traidcraft and the World Development Movement. These founding organisations were later joined by Britain’s largest women’s organisation, the Women’s Institute.
Find Your Feet
Find Your Feet works with vulnerable families living in rural India and Malawi to build a future free from hunger, poverty and discrimination.
Friends of the Earth Scotland
Our planet, including our patch of it in Scotland, is being polluted, poisoned and misused. Here in Scotland, air pollution kills 2,000 people a year; 90 per cent of our waste is dumped, not recycled; and one in twelve homes is at risk of flooding.
Global Action Plan
Global Action Plan is the practical environmental charity that helps people to make positive changes at home, at work, at school and in the wider community. By working together, we make the small changes that have a big impact on the things that matter.
Global Witness
Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses.
Grassroots Action on Food and Farming
Grassroots Action on Food and Farming (GAFF) was established in 2001 to address the increasing corporate control and power in the food sytem and the demise of the small and family farm.
Green Alliance
Green Alliance is an independent charity with a central role in the UK environment movement. We work closely with decision-makers in government and business, and with other environment groups, promoting policies for a better environment.
GreenNet
GreenNet supports a progressive community working for Peace, the Environment, Gender Equality and Social Justice, through the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs).
Groundwork
Groundwork is a leading environmental regeneration charity making sustainable development a reality in communities in the UK which are in need of investment and support.
The International Fair Trade Association
Our mission is to improve the livelihoods and well being of disadvantaged producers by linking and promoting Fair Trade Organizations, and speaking out for greater justice in world trade.
International Fund for Animal Welfare
The International Fund for Animal Welfare works to improve animal welfare, prevent animal cruelty and abuse, protect wildlife and provide animal rescue around the world.
The International Society for Ecology and Culture
The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) is a non-profit organisation concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity.
Labour Behind the Label
Labour Behind the Label works to support garments workers worldwide in their efforts to improve their working conditions through awareness raising, information provision and encouraging international solidarity between workers and consumers.
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
Every single day, 30,000 children are dying as a result of extreme poverty. This year, 2005, we finally have the resources, knowledge and opportunity to end this shameful situation. That’s what this website is about.
National Federation of Women’s Institutes
We play a unique role in providing women with educational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their communities.
The National Group on Homeworking
The NGH works for the rights of homeworkers in the UK. NGH was established in 1984 when individuals and organisations, working on homeworking issues at a local level, realised that a national organisation was needed to co-ordinate the work and to ensure
The National Heart Forum
The National Heart Forum (NHF) is a leading alliance of over 40 national organisations working to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease in the UK.
The New Economics Foundation
NEF is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being. We aim to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues.
No Sweat
No Sweat is an activist, campaigning organisation, fighting sweatshop bosses, in solidarity with workers, worldwide. Sweatshop labour is modern, global capitalism stripped bare.
OneWorld International
OneWorld International Foundation (OWIF) is the governing body of the OneWorld Network and the guardian of OneWorld’s vision and values.
Open Spaces Society
The Open Spaces Society protects common land and public rights of way. If you know of a blocked public path or encroachment on common land, or you want to register a ‘new’ green, we can help you, once you have joined the Society.
Opportunity International UK
Opportunity International UK offers poor entrepreneurs in developing countries the tools they need to break out of poverty and support themselves.
Oxfam GB
Oxfam GB is a development, relief, and campaigning organisation that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world.
The Peace Tax Campaign
The Peace Tax Campaign campaigns for the legal right for those with a conscientious objection to war to have the military part of their taxes spent on peacebuilding initiatives.
People & Planet
UK Students campaigning on world poverty, human rights and the environment.
The Peru Support Group
The Peru Support Group was established in 1983 as an independent organisation, without any party or political affiliation. It aims to support the people of Peru, particularly those from the poorest sectors.
Pesticide Action Network UK
Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) promotes healthy food, agriculture and an environment which will provide food and meet public health needs without dependence on toxic chemicals, and without harm to food producers and agricultural workers.
Planning Sanity
Planning Sanity was set up in 1999 as a direct response to an increasing number of requests from environmentalists and Green Party members for help fighting adverse planning developments.
Publish What You Pay
The Publish What You Pay campaign aims to help citizens of resource-rich developing countries hold their governments accountable for the management of revenues from the oil, gas and mining industries.
Public Concern at Work
Public Concern at Work is the whistleblowing charity. Established in 1993, we have led the new approach to whistleblowing that – both at home and abroad – recognises the key role it can play in anticipating and avoiding serious risks that arise in and from the workplace.
Public Utilities Access Forum
Founded in 1989, the Public Utilities Access Forum (PUAF) is an informal association of organisations which helps to develop policy on the regulation of the public utilities providing electricity, gas, communications and water services in England and Wales.
River Ocean Foundation
The River Ocean Foundation is a charity dedicated to increasing awareness and encouraging care for our water environments. Our activities are focused in the fields of environmental education and research.
Save the Children UK
Save the Children fights for children in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence. We work with them to find lifelong answers to the problems they face.
SCOPE
Welcome to Scope, the disability organisation in England and Wales whose focus is people with cerebral palsy. Our aim is that disabled people achieve equality: a society in which they are as valued and have the same human and civil rights as everyone else.
SERA
SERA aims to promote sustainable environmental policies within the Labour movement and Labour Party to ensure sustainable development is central to the work of the government.
Social Platform
The Platform of European Social NGOs is the alliance of representative European federations and networks of non-governmental organisations active in the social sector.
SQUALL Magazine
SQUALL Magazine Online is a forum for radical quality journalism and photography. It presents accessible and factually reliable investigations into issues which the mainstream media dare not touch.
SVARAJ
Oxfam India Society (soon to be Svaraj) is a registered Society set up in 1978 with the aim of fighting poverty through empowering people in India and to break from oppression and violence.
Tearfund
Tearfund is an evangelical Christian relief and development agency working through partners in developing countries and campaigning to address the underlying causes of poverty.
Tourism Concern
We are the only organisation in Europe actively campaigning on tourism and human rights issues. We work tirelessly to expose and challenge tourism’s exploitative practices.
The Trade Justice Movement
The movement is supported by more than 80 member organisations that have over 9 million members, and new organisations are joining every month. Together, we are campaigning for trade justice – not free trade – with the rules weighted to benefit poor people and the environment.
WDM
The World Development Movement (WDM) tackles the underlying causes of poverty. We lobby decision makers to change the policies that keep people poor. We research and promote positive alternatives. We work alongside people in the developing world who are standing up to injustice.
Women’s Environmental Network
WEN is a unique, vital and innovative campaigning organisation, which represents women and campaigns on issues, which link women, environment and health.
UK Food Group (UKFG)
The UK Food Group (UKFG) is the leading UK network for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on global food and agriculture issues. Our vision is a world in which hunger has been banished by food security.
Uncaged Campaigns
Uncaged Campaigns is uniquely holistic. A highly qualified, experienced and dedicated team of staff brings in-depth knowledge of the political, legal, ethical and scientific issues relevant to animal experimentation.
Working Women Worldwide
Promoting the rights of women workers around the world.