“I have found P&P a really accessible way to get involved in campaigning, which may have been quite daunting if I had tried to get involved in these things on my own. Also as a group you feel much stronger than as an individual.”
A People & Planet supporter at the G8 Summer Festival, 2005
“Student activists from People & Planet have shown that solidarity really can change the world. Campus campaigners have been the backbone of the AIDS treatment movement in the UK and their formidable activism has shifted G8 from being bystanders in the AIDS emergency to visionary radicals in the field of HIV. Thousands of people are dying from HIV every single day. G8 have the power to stop that - and student campaigners have the power to make them use it. The world will never be the same again.” Kirsty McNeill, Stop AIDS Campaign, 2005
“Over the last three years People & Planet has become an extraordinary organisation which attracts student supporters on a scale unmatched within the UK charity and campaign sector. More than any other youth organisation it is encouraging the emerging generation to see themselves as global citizens with a responsibility for taking action on global problems of poverty and the environment.”
Lord Joel Joffe CBE, Chair of Oxfam, 1999
“On behalf of the people of Burma, I would like to thank People & Planet for helping to bring democracy and human rights to our country.”
Dr Sein Win, Burmese Prime Minister-in-exile, 1997
“On your ethical investment campaign, I congratulate you on the scope and response from your members … my very best wishes for your campaign.”
Clare Short MP, British Secretary of State for International Development, 1999
“These people know how to focus and get results. I am quite sure their work can result in the kind of mobilisation in Britain we have already seen among young people on so many campuses in the US, and I hope you will be able to support this exciting new development.”
Susan George, author, 2000
“[People & Planet campaigns] forced some of the most powerful corporations in the world to take notice. With the student population changing every year, People & Planet also provides much needed continuity and stability for progressive voices on university campuses, and links students to broader, cross generational movements for social and economic justice.”
Naomi Klein, journalist and author of “No Logo”, 2000
“People & Planet is an impressive organisation whose professionalism is reflected in their successful campaigns and events. People & Planet has an extensive grassroots network of student groups who display an unprecedented level of commitment and energy in their campaigns for social and environmental change.”
Friends of the Earth, 1998
“We recognise People & Planet as the leading organisation on development issues in the student movement, able to continually motivate a large number of student groups around the country.”
UK National Union of Students
“People & Planet has consistently proved to be an inspiring, ambitious and professional organisation. It is the biggest, most coherent student network working on environment and development issues in the UK.”
Greenpeace UK
“Most people worry about the state of the world but People & Planet gives you the means to change it.”
New Internationalist Magazine