London Mayor Invests £2.7million in Air Filters

Sadiq Khan pictured with children at a school in London

A contract was recently awarded by the Greater London Authority to install and maintain air cleaners in 200 London schools at a cost of £2.7million. The scheme has just started; Sadiq Khan has already run a pilot to prove it works and is cost-effective.

A programme of installing air filters to reduce the spread of sickness in schools will also reduce workplace sickness absence, improve productivity, help the economy and drive growth. All while protecting the NHS, taking pressure off the benefits budgets as well as having huge health benefits which in themselves will bring societal improvements. The returns on investment for this initiative are so huge that it seems unbelievable that it hasn’t already been done!

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.

The UK could become a world-leader in protecting the future health of our children and helping them perform better at school. Our willingness as a society to breathe in dirty air is a problem that we’ve lived with for too long. With your help, we could change that.

Children in over 200 schools in London and more than 70 schools in Hertfordshire are breathing cleaner air. Your child’s school can be the next. Will you help? Click here to Take Action