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…?

After a successful collaboration with three schools in Lambeth in 2021, Mums for Lungs and Lin Kam Art are very pleased to have extended our air pollution art project to Brent in North West London this year. 

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.

How many times have you seen a company van with its engine idling, and wished you could talk to someone at that company about it? Happens all the time right?

In a collaboration with local Lambeth schools, we have created an art trail celebrating clean air in air pollution hotspots around the borough. Wyvil and Loughborough Primary Schools have hosted the first of these art installations, created by the children and artists, and co-ordinated by Mums For Lungs. 

Today marks the launch of the Ultra Low Emission Zone expansion - something we’ve been looking forward to for a very long time! To celebrate, we have created some eye-catching posters and banners with 9 other campaigning groups across London.

Earlier this year we wrote to all English councils to ask how many fines they’d issued for wood burning over the previous five years. The answer? 18,600 complaints in 6 years to councils about wood smoke pollution, yet only 19 fines have been issued (3 per year) in just 7 areas.

We’ve updated our general air pollution flyer - and we now have an option for those outside London! The digital versions have all the links to the sources mentioned on the flyers themselves.

Many people have asked us over the last few months if we have a flyer that explains the facts of wood burning that can be posted through letterboxes, put up at a GP’s surgery, or on a community noticeboard. Here it is!

Mums for Lungs, in a coalition with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Medact and Choked Up, hopes this will be a moment for a real change to improve London’s air quality. We want the next Mayor to be a #Mayor4CleanAir

Our new report, published with climate charity Possible, has analysed the potential for School Streets in four towns in the UK: London, Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds.

Updating our idling flyer has been on our list for a long time! We can now finally reveal the new version, with many thanks to our volunteer Caroline who’s designed this for us.

Are you asking yourself how can something as toxic as the burning of wood can be promoted by so many magazines and house renovation TV shows?

Did you know that Sainsbury’s, Asda and Waitrose are members of Logistics UK, an organisation which has called the delay to 6 Clean Air Zones across the UK, including London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), a "policy achievement"?

This week we wrote to all London councils asking them to raise awareness of the dangers of wood burning, and ask all residents not to use their stoves or fires unless they are their only source of heat.