MUMS FOR LUNGS

Our Clean Air Night poster campaign highlights the air pollution and health impact of burning wood to heat your home.

8th January 2026

We’re delighted to have contributed to ensuring that the Environmental Audit Committee chose air pollution for its next inquiry.

1st December 2025

We’re cautiously optimistic about the government’s revised Environmental Improvement Plan, published today.

19th November 2025

Get in touch with us if you’d like a safer, healthier school run in GM!

18th November 2025

New FOI data shows that air quality budgets have been cut to just £1.5 million a year, from a high of £225 million in 2020/21, despite nearly 11 million people living in areas with illegal levels of NO2 pollution.

5th November 2025

Our Christmas cards are back by popular demand! Join us in sending season’s greetings while also sharing simple ideas on reducing air pollution in our everyday lives.

5th November 2025

It is an uncomfortable truth that wood burning creates a huge amount of air pollution in the UK. Please join us in raising awareness of this difficult-to-talk-about issue by downloading our flyer…

22nd October 2025

Our latest research reveals that over 15,000 complaints about wood burning were made between September 2024 & August 2025, with barely a handful of fines issued and not a single prosecution pursued.

14th October 2025

Yesterday we gathered at the Royal Courts of Justice on day one of the Pan NOx emissions High Court trial, to show why car manufacturers need to be held to account, and why the Government must finally act on this decade-long scandal.

27th August 2025

Our latest research has revealed that 120,000 children were admitted to hospital or taken to A&E in London last year with serious breathing problems.

30th July 2025

We are absolutely delighted to report that last Friday, the High Court ordered car manufacturers to release unredacted documents ahead of October’s Dieselgate trial, granting our application to the court in full.

July 2025

Read our School Streets briefing for councils, which includes our latest research on how School Streets enforced with cameras are proving to be cost-neutral within two years.

10th July 2025

As part of our ongoing Dieselgate campaign, we attended the Pan-NOx Emissions Group Litigation hearing at the High Court this week. This is the next stage in our campaign to ensure public transparency and open justice in the upcoming £6 billion Dieselgate trial, scheduled for October.

24th June 2025

Mums for Lungs is proud to announce our new accreditation system for primary and secondary schools. We’re inviting schools in Southwark and Lambeth to sign up and acknowledge their important role in reducing air pollution. 

11th June 2025

Teachers - want to know why School Streets are so great? Read our School Street FAQs for schools!

30th April 2025

We've uncovered a 33 per cent increase in the number of babies and toddlers admitted to Manchester hospitals with breathing problems between 2023 and 2024.

March 3rd 2025

Car manufacturers must be held to account - our new analysis shows a shocking number of the most polluting diesel cars are still on UK roads, 10 years after Dieselgate. 

With the Silvertown Tunnel officially opening in East London, we’ve written to Sir Sadiq Khan to reiterate our view that his support for the tunnel is misguided and to request a comprehensive review of traffic in London.

We have written three air pollution assemblies, for Key Stages 1 to 3, to help inform the next generation about the impacts of air pollution.

London's Ultra Low Emission Zone One Year report is great news for Londoners’ health. The ULEZ has reduced air pollution significantly across ALL of London 💚 .

There are still millions of diesel cars on our roads emitting suspiciously high levels of air pollution. We’ve written an open letter to the judge on the upcoming diesel emissions class action. We need full transparency about the vehicle emissions we are all breathing.

Our latest research, building on our previous Freedom of Information requests from 2021 and 2023, again reveals the inadequacy of the Government’s legislation in tackling air pollution from wood burning in smoke control areas.

Our School Streets Facebook group brings together people from all over the UK to talk about School Streets. We collectively share information, answer questions, give advice and can set up one-to-one chats

Some councils get it, and some don’t. We applaud Lambeth Council’s strong messaging on the need to reduce wood burning and Oxford City Council’s Do You Fuel Good campaign,

How can something as toxic as the burning of wood be promoted by so many magazines and house renovation TV shows?

Whichever way you look at it, the school run will take up a significant amount of your life over the next seven years. But it doesn’t have to be a horror story.

Both Mayor Andy Burnham and the leader of Manchester City Council Bev Craig have committed to implementing many more School Streets across GM in the next few years. We want to help start the ball rolling, so we’ve created a campaigning guide for School Streets across Greater Manchester.

Last month we collaborated with Kate Pryse-Lloyd, CEO of STEM Workshops, to create a day-long STEM workshop for Year 9 students across four schools in Lambeth and Southwark in London.

Our analysis of data from hospital trusts across London has revealed that more than 15,000 children under 5 were admitted to hospitals across London in 2023 with serious breathing difficulties.

It can be hard to connect children’s health with Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs); how can being able to park affect how healthy our children are? Find out why, if we want healthier, calmer and safer streets, we should support CPZs.