Hi all, as founder of this campaign 10 years ago I would like to thank everyone who signs our petitions and give you all a bit of campaign history.

First, latest news......Our latest written, and our supported petition from last year are both being debated on 9th December, despite neither reaching the 100k. (They know we are good for it). There is a reason they are together. If the second petition reaches 100k only a short while after the first is debated, they will refuse a second. They will not table similar ones close together. We missed out a couple of years ago for this reason. We have now achieved enough signatures on 8 petitions and 6 debates, (one too close and one doubled up). We also delivered this change petition to No 10 that has since reached 1,115,508 thus ensuring the publicity we needed for the latest government one. We had a plan Change petitions sadly do not achieve debates, they can be taken at any stage to the minister, but to get any kind of reaction it needs to be in the hundreds of thousands... We did that, so went to the top!

Best latest news.... the Firework Campaign have been invited by Sarah Owen MP to attend the MPs drop in at Westminster on 10th December. It means I will have two days in London as I will obviously attend on the 9th as always.

History bit.......Every year, as this year, The Firework Campaign wrote a petition. This year Alan Smith personalised the first section. Sometimes we see one with similar aims and we support that ONE existing petition. We do this to ensure we can get it to debate and we haven’t been wrong yet! Every petition we have written or supported has achieved debate (except above two). Every other petition not backed by the Firework Campaign, has not reached the necessary target. This is the reason we keep asking for only one petition a year to be pushed. We work incredibly hard to do this, hours on the computer, into the night sometimes. We actively campaign on social media, TV and radio and we work with several of the big charities to achieve our aims. We were the first and only firework campaign group to achieve a debate and we still are.

We have been actively creating awareness of the problems ever since. When I started 10 years ago, PTSD and autism were never mentioned.. Now everyone says it, even those who have never been members of FC. Our message has had a huge reach, even to the smaller less active firework groups on social media. We have previously had three other FC groups, one over 30,000 members, but we found we were infiltrated by pro firework people and our members were being targeted, some to their own messenger (as I have been many times). We decided it was important to have a group where everyone could see the information we needed to show but where we blocked the people we knew to be pro fireworks so our members could be open in their opinions in a safe space.
We have an enormous amount of information on our website, from ‘The truth about silent fireworks, to personal stories which almost need a warning before reading. Please have a look and see old debates, reports we have sent to government (especially 2016, a mighty tome) and other information.

I am extremely proud of what we have achieved. We were recognised by the British Horse Society way back in 2018 when I was honoured to be invited to their annual awards dinner and,on behalf of the Firework Campaign, receive their Sefton award for Services to Equestrian Safety. This was 6 years ago, it popped up as a memory and is what prompted me to write this potted history.

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Thank you for your continued support … Julie Doorne

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