WI members took part in February’s ‘Show the Love’ campaign, and September’s ‘Great Big Green Week’ mobilisation- the biggest green week the UK has ever seen.
The WI also became a member of the Warm this Winter coalition, a campaign coalition of over 40 of the UK’s leading charities, to demand the government acts now to help people struggling with the rising cost of energy bills. WI members were part of the 400,000 signatories to the Warm this Winter petition, and joined in with campaign events to call on the government to ramp up renewable energy schemes, provide emergency financial support to the most vulnerable, and to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
The WI also partnered with Unchecked UK- a diverse coalition of organisations that campaign for strong social, employment and environmental protections- to oppose the scrapping of thousands of rights and protections by the government’s planned Retained EU Law Bill. If passed, the Retained EU Law Bill threatens over 1,700 environmental protections, some for which WI members have actively campaigned. This includes the Clean Water Directive, widely seen as having driven vast improvements in water quality around UK shores, and protections for wildlife enshrined in the Habitats Directive.