MUMS FOR LUNGS

November 5th 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.

November 5th 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…

October 22nd 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.

October 14th 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.

August 27th 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.

July 31st 2025

We are hiring an energetic, creative and community-focused Schools Lead to continue our impactful work on School Streets in Lambeth and Southwark in London, and across the country. 

July 30th 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.

July 20th 2025

Help us raise awareness with magazine editors that using images of stoves and fires in their magazines inadvertently promotes wood burning.

July 10th 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.

June 24th 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. 

June 11th 2025

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

April 30th 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 💚 .

This map displays nitrogen dioxide levels across London in 2022, the latest annual data available, revealing that there is a long way to go until Londoners are breathing clean air.

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.

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.

It’s wood burning season and we want to help spread the word about the air pollution impact of burning wood in open fires, stoves and firepits.