We can make it happen

Will you help us get Clean Air for Kids

Very few schools, Local Education Authorities and Academy Trusts can afford the up-front costs of installing air filters. But the Government could, easily. And recover their costs very quickly from supply teacher budget savings.

With political leadership, we could easily transform the lives of schoolchildren, their teachers, and their families by improving the quality of the air they breathe.

Please sign our petition below

Please write to you Member of Parliament to ask them to support our campaign.

This isn't a radical idea. It's already happening!

Over 200 schools in London have air filters thanks to Mayor Sadiq Khan who has run pilot schemes and studies to prove it works and is cost-effective. More than 70 schools in Hertfordshire are breathing cleaner air. Your area can be next!

Our children spend over 6 hours each day in their classrooms. Clean air shouldn’t be seen as a luxury; it is a fundamental requirement for good health.

It’s also cost-effective. It has been estimated that installing air filters in schools in England would cost around £140 million while Sky News recently reported that supply teacher costs in England last year alone were £1.4 billion. Running costs are low too: it’s equivalent to the power of a small fan in each unit, and a change of filter every 12-24 months, so the price of installation and maintenance would pay for itself quickly just from the savings from supply teacher budgets.

A programme of installing air filters to reduce the spread of sickness in schools will benefit the community reduce workplace sickness absence, and improve productivity. It will help the economy and drive growth while protecting the NHS, taking pressure off the benefits budgets as well as having huge health and wellbeing benefits which in themselves will bring societal improvements.

With political leadership, we could easily transform the lives of schoolchildren, their teachers, and their families by improving the quality of the air they breathe. We drink two litres of water and breathe in 11,000 litres of air every day. We wouldn’t let our children drink dirty water, so why are we letting them breathe dirty air?

We can do this. But we need your voice.

Please will you help us get clean air for kids in schools?

Would you sign our petition below, and will you ask your friends and family to do so as well?

And please write to your MP. You can find out their name and email address, and download a template letter to send, by clicking on one of the buttons below.

Thank you!