Get your place at the Summer Gathering!
We know it seems like a long way off, but it’s time to start thinking about next year!
If you’re going to be involved in running a P&P group or campaign at your uni or college next year, then the Summer Gathering is THE training event for you.
It takes place from 29 June - 3 July 2008 and places will fill up fast. Get your place now so that you don’t miss out.
Wanna get more involved in P&P? Then think about applying for one of our popular volunteer positions and you could get you you place at the summer gathering for free.
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Urgent Action: tell the government not to break its promises on AIDS
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The renaissance of student activism?
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Successes Stem from Roehampton's Go Green Week
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Climate Change and the Student Movement conference
Will be held in Brighton on the weekend of the 6 to 8 June, is the first of its type. It has been organised by student groups from around the country, and they want you to be a part of it!
"Lug-that-Mug" say Rose Bruford Green Society
To mark a year of campaigning, Rose Bruford Green Society used the annual symposium at the college to launch their re-usable mugs campaign, which aims to help students cut down their waste.
Sterling Stamp Duty to Stamp Out AIDS
Order a pack with the film 'Can pay, Should pay' and see why the government has no excuse not to Treat AIDS Now.
Summer wouldn't be summer without The Gathering
Don't forget to bag your place at P&P's much talked about networking, training and planning event...
Climate Bill Public Meeting
MPs from the three main political parties shared the stage with Friends of the Earth Director Tony Juniper to discuss the Climate Bill currently going through Parliament.
P&P Goes Mentor Mental!
Fancy becoming a P&P Group Support Volunteer? Here's what current volunteer Kristina has to say...
Monbiot piqued by peak oil planning
In the last of his series of events as Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University, journalist, activist and People & Planet patron George Monbiot last night declared the impending climate chaos as catastrophic.
There are People & Planet groups in roughly 130 sixth forms, colleges and universities across the UK. Visit the sixth form pages to find out about sixth form groups. Read on for more information about P&P groups in universities and higher education insitutions.
What does a P&P group do?
All sorts of things! Most groups meet regularly during term time to discuss and plan campaigns at their college or university. Activities can include holding stalls, publicity stunts, email campaigns, lobbying decision makers and running events such as debates, gigs or club nights which highlight the issues we campaign on.
Groups also take part in national events such as a mass lobby of parliament or demonstration and run some or all of P&Ps national campaigns. They also attend national P&P events and raise money to help fund our campaigns.
To find out more about P&P groups, please browse the latest news on this page or click through to group websites from the groups list page.
What´s so special about the People & Planet Network?
- People & Planet creates impact because our campaigns really work, from changing the law on arms exports to introducing Fairtrade into union shops. We have converted 65 colleges to using green electricity and helped to create nine Fairtrade universities.
- We empower by giving people the skills, and the confidence, to change the world around them on their own terms.
- We´re student-led because the students choose what we campaign on, so that we’re always relevant to young people.
Why is the P&P Network so effective?
- Because campaigning as part of a network allows us to support one another and achieve far more than we could as individuals.
- Because we campaign strategically on a broad range of issues, which allows us to see how they are all inter-connected.
- Because we invest in training our campaigners and developing our groups, which enables them to be more effective in achieving change.
- Because every person and every group is important to People & Planet - nobody is just a cog in the wheel.
- Because we can draw on the skills, ideas and commitment of thousands of student campaigners across the UK.
To get in touch with your local university group, please see the groups list or telephone 01865-245678.