#TaxTheBanks petition delivered to Jeremy Hunt
14 March, 2024March 14, 2024 Ahead of his Spring Budget, we delivered our petition to Number 11 Downing Street to call on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to introduce a windfall tax on bank profits. A big thank you to MPs Rebecca Long-Bailey and John McDonnell, and our campaign partners The Equality Trust for joining us, and an even [...]
2024 Positive Money supporter survey results
27 February, 2024February 27, 2024 At the start of 2024, over 800 Positive Money supporters completed our annual survey. Positive Money’s annual supporter surveys are a great chance to step back, gather feedback on our work from the previous twelve months, and gain a valuable snapshot of what matters most to our community right now. Thanks so [...]
HeadSpin! Rewrite the rules of the money game
16 November, 2023November 16, 2023 Introducing… HeadSpin! our parody game show which exposes the only real winners in this economy: big banks, fossil fuel giants, and landlords. Right now, the game is rigged. Money is going to the wrong places and it’s fuelling the climate, housing and cost of living crises. But rules can change. Watch now [...]
Campaigners protest rate rises & ballooning bank profits
3 August, 2023August 3, 2023 This morning we headed down to the Bank of England to protest their relentless interest rate rises - which are causing big bank profits to balloon - while millions of us suffer from the cost of living crisis. We’re demanding an end to rate hikes and for the government to introduce a [...]
What’s the digital pound? and how we can make it work for people not profit
17 July, 2023July 17, 2023 Catch up on our webinar from 28th June: ‘What’s the digital pound? and how we can make it work for people not profit’. While central banks all over the world, including the Bank of England, look into launching digital currencies (a digital version of cash issued by central banks) there are currently [...]
PoMo at Glasto 2023!
4 July, 2023July 4, 2023 In late June, four members of the Positive Money team headed down to Somerset to chat to thousands of people at the biggest festival in the UK: Glastonbury 2023. Over five days, more than 210,000 people made their way to the 900-acre site on Worthy Farm for a mixture of music, activism [...]
Hunt’s huge missed opportunity to #TaxTheBanks
15 March, 2023March 15, 2023 Today Chancellor Jeremy Hunt presented his Spring Budget to parliament and missed a huge opportunity. After 12 years of deep public sector cuts and pay freezes, which resulted in strikes in hospitals and classrooms up and down the country, Hunt ignored an easy win to bring in billions of pounds of additional [...]
The highs and lows of Governor Andrew Bailey’s first year
17 March, 2021March 17, 2021 One year into his role as Governor, Andrew Bailey has reliably steered the Bank of England’s response to the Covid-induced economic crisis, but disappointed many with his failure to seize several opportunities to green the Bank’s operations and transform the UK financial sector into one that helps provide solutions to the multitude [...]
Big win: New green mandate for the Bank of England
3 March, 2021March 4, 2021 Following a big campaign by Positive Money and partner organisations, Rishi Sunak has given the Bank of England the green light to fight the climate crisis, by giving it a brand new green mandate. Yesterday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak updated the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee mandate to “reflect the importance of [...]