MUMS FOR LUNGS

If you’re anything like us, your mind goes blank when the doorbell goes, especially if the dog is barking or your kids are yelling. So we’ve written up some short questions about air pollution to help you engage with canvassers - we’ve done the thinking so that you don’t have to!

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…

With a General Election approaching, the issue of air pollution and its impact on our children's health must be placed high on the agenda.

With the Labour Party’s apparent backing away from their £28bn a year commitment to green investment, we need to make our voices heard and urge Sir Keir Starmer to stay strong on the environment.

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.

Our new research reveals the inadequacy of the Government’s legislation in tackling air pollution from wood burning. Only three fines have been handed out in Smoke Control Areas since Jan 2022, despite 10,000 complaints.

We are excited to announce that in 2024 we will be expanding our reach across London and beyond, and are therefore looking for an experienced Volunteer Coordinator.

This year we have created our first ever Christmas cards. Join us in sending season’s greetings while also sharing simple ideas on reducing air pollution in our everyday lives.

We are deeply concerned that our political leaders are underestimating the twin crises of air pollution and climate change and therefore totally disregarding our children’s futures. Please join our new email campaign.

Our new poster campaign is live! It’s wood burning season and we want to help spread the word, as national Government still refuses to do, about the air pollution impact of burning wood in open fires, stoves and firepits.

Sarah, a six-year-old in Manchester, has written this letter out of concern for her friends and family who have asthma.

We have written two primary school air pollution assemblies, one for Key Stage 1 (age 5 to 7) and one for Key Stage 2 (age 7 to 11), to help inform the next generation about the impacts of air pollution.

Are you thinking of installing a wood burning stove or re-opening your fireplace, or do you know someone who is planning to? Please take a look at our new graphic.

On Thursday June 8th, we held a Clean Air Carnival, as the culmination to our Spring Science Fest!

Mums for Lungs are proud to present … our first ever ScienceFest! In this celebration of clean air we've collaborated with some of the most prestigious scientific organisations in the UK to create an army of junior citizen scientists, who are learning about, measuring and assessing the air around us.

In light of the recent high air pollution alerts in London, we're setting up a network to ensure information gets passed more easily to schools and parents & carers ahead of future air pollution episodes.

Our new research shows that using Automatic Number Plate Reinforcement (ANPR) cameras to enforce School Streets means they are also self-funding within their first year, with London’s existing 500+ school streets in London currently creating a £31m revenue stream.

We originally launched our wood burning flyer in June 2021 on Clean Air Day. Since then, new data has been published on the amount of air pollution that wood burning produces, and so we felt it was time for an update.

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.

We were pleased to see Lambeth Council’s strong messaging on the need to reduce wood burning, and Oxford City Council’s new Do You Fuel Good campaign,

We are excited to announce that Mums for Lungs is expanding our ever-growing network of activists and supporters to Greater Manchester.

Something that we became aware of recently at Mums for Lungs is the link between air pollution and obesity. It hasn’t made frontpage news yet but it’s been highlighted by several studies published across the world over the last few years.

To help you campaign for a School Street at your school, we have now created a form so that you can order our School Streets flyers directly.

To celebrate Car Free Day this year, we are encouraging parents to contact their children’s schools to highlight the issue of air pollution and why it’s important for everyone - but especially schools - to take action to reduce it.

Matt Oliver from Hark Films approached us earlier this year to ask us if he could make a short film about air pollution for us. We said yes please! Huge thanks to him and the brilliant Sophie Cartman for their time on this.

…the tube, low traffic neighbourhoods, incinerators, perfumes or air fresheners, mould, flame retardants, VOCs in paints…?

We’re excited to announce that in June we will be joining Fare City, Clean Cities, Pedal Me and Wheels for Wellbeing in taking part in a Cleaner Air Market at Maltby Street Market in Southwark.

Local elections are coming up across the country in May. We want to ensure that the need for strong action to tackle air pollution is high on council agendas. Read about our four asks for councils here.