Our campaign successes

Our work would be impossible without your help. Here are just a few of our recent campaigning achievements.

Food labelling

When the UK Government launched their public consultation on front-of-pack food labels, nearly 1,000 of you took action and responded calling for traffic light labels and consistency across all shelves. The Government supported your calls and announced that they were backing a voluntary single labelling scheme that includes traffic light colours.

Every major supermarket pledged to support the scheme and will be introducing food labels with traffic lights. This will make it easier and clearer to see exactly what's going into our baskets, a massive win for consumers.

Tobacco

March 2011

The UK Government announced that the ban on tobacco displays in shops and supermarkets will be going ahead. We were really pleased with this news and this outcome couldn't have been achieved without the hard work of our campaigers writing to their MPs and raising awareness in their local newspapers. Thank you.

October 2009

MPs passed a ban on cigarette vending machines and advertising cigarettes in shops and supermarkets. All our campaigners worked really hard to achieve this piece of legislation that will help to protect children from easy access to cigarettes and tobacco advertising.

Similar bans are also being implemented in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Westminster election 2010

Thank you to everyone who took part in our election campaign, you all helped to send an amazing 933 emails to Parliamentary candidates.

We had a great response with 200 Parliamentary candidates pledging their support to tackle heart and circulatory disease, and of those, we now have 72 supportive elected MPs.

Cardiac rehab in Scotland

BHF Scotland, along with our partner Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland, worked with patients and health professionals to call for increased access to cardiac rehab for all heart patients who needed it. This call was embraced by the Scottish Government and appeared as a commitment in their Heart Disease and Stroke Action Plan.

However, implementation of this commitment has been patchy, which is why we need your help making sure that the cardiac rehab is a top priority for politicians. See our manifesto and sign up as a campaigner for more information.

New heart plan

In 2010 we petitioned for a new Government plan to tackle heart and circulatory disease in England. The old ten year plan for England (known as the National Service Framework) reached its tenth anniversary in 2010. We managed to gather over 160,000 signatures and presented the petition to Number 10.

We've now had confirmation from the Westminster Government that there will be a new heart plan put in place to tackle heart and circulatory disease.

Product placement

The Government backed down on product placement proposals and confirmed that there will be a complete ban on product placement of food and drink high in fat, sugar and salt on British TV. This will help to ensure that children are protected from junk food marketing and signals the importance that the Government places on children’s health.

Thank you to everyone who helped achieve this outcome by sending a response to the consultation. This was a great victory for our campaigners and for public health.