Bristol
Ruth Brooker,
Bristol Representative
Founder, Director and Creative Campaigner
Ruth is the Representative of Clean Air for Kids in Bristol. Ruth is a features writer and creative campaigner. To contact Ruth, click here to send her an email.
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 installation of 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 write to you Member of Parliament to ask them to support our campaign.
Our Children Deserve Clean Air – Let's Make It Happen in Bristol
We ensure that our children drink clean water, we provide them with nutritious food, but unfortunately, the air they breathe is all too often polluted and dirty.
Breathing poor quality air is a well-known risk to children’s immediate and long-term health. It is now well understood that air pollution outside, is a problem, but indoor air can be up to five times more polluted. The pollutants that can be present in our indoor air include invisible nasties such as mould, fungal spores, pollen, bacteria and airborne viruses such as measles, flu and Covid-19.
Schools are where children spend most of their time, but, with densely packed classrooms, this is where they are most likely to pick up sickness, which results in absence for them as well as diminished performance in exams.
But it doesn’t have to be like this. We know that existing clean air technologies remove the pathogens that cause illness from the air. Classrooms rely on natural ventilation alone, which is not enough to ensure that children breathe clean, fresh air whilst they are learning. It needs additional filtration.
By simply adding an air filter to each classroom and regularly opening windows, the number of coughs, colds, and Covid-19 infections that kids and their teachers catch at school and take home to their families and others could be significantly reduced. It would also increase attendance rates.
Will you help us? Will you write and send a letter to your Member of Parliament for us? See below for all you need to help us get clean indoor air for the kids in Bristols’s schools.
How to write to your Member of Parliament
If you live in Bristol and support kids in schools being able to breathe clean air when they are at school, please will you write to your Member of Parliament to ask them to support the initiative.
Here is the list of MPs covering Bristol
Please click on the email address below to send an email supporting the campaign to your MP.
Bristol Central
Carla Denyer (Green Party)
carla.denyer.mp@parliament.uk
Bristol East
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)
kerry.mccarthy.mp@parliament.uk
If you are not sure which of the Bristol MPs is your Member of Parliament, you can find that out here:
If you click on your MP’s email address below your email will automatically load with our template letter (cc’d to us). Feel free to amend our template letter if you wish.
If you would like to write your own letter or email, you can make use of any information on this website.
Bristol North East
Damien Egan (Labour)
damien.egan.mp@parliament.uk
Bristol North West
Darren Jones (Labour)
darren.jones.mp@parliament.uk
Bristol South
Karin Smyth (Labour)
karin.smyth.mp@parliament.uk
If you prefer to write them a letter, the address for all of them is the same:
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Remember to ask your friends, neighbours and family to write as well, and please tell us when you have written, and if you get a reply using the form below :)
The more people that write, the better the chance of success we will have.
Our Vision is to provide cleaner indoor air to benefit the health of all children
Ventilation
Opening windows lets stale indoor air out and the external air flow in
Filtration
Removing particulate matter and pathogens from the room air using air filters
Legislation
Campaigning for better standards for indoor air quality
Do you want Clean Air for Kids in Schools?
If you support our campaign for clean air for kids in schools, please send us a message.
If you want to learn more about the benefits and the solutions, please get in touch.
If you want to help, fill in the form and tell us.
And if you want to advocate for clean air in your own child’s school, we’d love to hear from you. We can help!