As we announced yesterday, we are delighted to have secured a House of Commons Debate on the Grey Pride campaign call for the appointment of a dedicated Minister for Older People, on Thursday 28th June.

Every Grey Pride supporter who signed our petition…

Margot James MP is supporting our application for a motion calling for a dedicated Minister for Older People to be appointed.

On her blog today, the MP for Stourbridge says

“It is essential that older people are represented across Government, a…

Grey Priders we are thrilled to announce that we have over 137,000 signatures on the petition…and we haven’t finished counting yet!

A massive thank you to everyone who updated their Facebook and Twitter profiles yesterday to share our messages as part of the…

Journalist, television presenter and ChildLine founder Esther Rantzen made an appeal for a Minister for Older People to millions of viewers on ITV’s Daybreak programme last week.

Speaking about the difficulty facing many older people in gaining simple advice to save money on their winter fuel bills, she said:

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Hello Grey Priders

On Friday during the count that saw us breach the 100,000 mark (woohoo!), we noticed that we had received two set of full petition forms during the last week without any mention of the name…

Today we are tremendously excited to announce that we’ve hit 100,000 signatures!…

The latest Grey Pride community poll asked “What does retirement mean to you?” and the results are in.

Thank you to everyone who voted, as always your insights and opinions are compelling and intriguing.

This is clearly a…

More great news for all Grey Priders, as our campaign to appoint a Minister for Older People was discussed in Parliament on Tuesday for the first time!

Tracey Crouch MP, who secured the Westminster Hall debate on older people's issues, opened her speech by calling for a Minister for Older People, telling MPs of her "strong support for the campaign to appoint a Minister for Older…

Great news from last week as Esther McVey MP, Conservative Member of Parliament for Wirral West, met with Grey Pride campaigners to discuss many things, including why we believe a Minister for Older People is so important in today's society.

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We ran our second Grey Pride community poll recently, asking the question “What should a Minister for Older People look into first?”

Firstly, thank you to all 266 Grey Priders who contributed to the poll – your insights and opinions are always interesting and illuminating.

The votes are more widely distributed in this poll than they were in our last…

Another MP has thrown their weight behind the campaign this week, proving that simply letting people know what we are trying to achieve really can be all it takes to boost our numbers!

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We’re over a quarter of the way there Grey Priders!

With the latest count now showing we have over 25,000 signatories backing our call on the government, and 48 MPs signed up to our…

Our Grey Pride campaign continues to go from strength to strength, with Mark Hunter, MP for Cheadle, becoming the latest MP to sign the petition and show his support.

Mr Hunter met campaigners in Gatley, Manchester, to discuss the campaign and sign the petition.

Speaking on his…

A small group of Grey Priders hit the streets of Newcastle city centre recently, armed with clipboards and smiles in order to get as many signatures as possible.

In only 4 1/2 hours they coaxed 853 signatures out of Newcastle's shoppers and workers - even nabbing a few signatures from other charity campaigners!

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Good morning Grey Priders - all 102 of you!

Word is spreading fast about this community and people are signing up to see what is being talked about…

We've passed our first benchmark - this weekend we hit 1,000 online signatures for our Grey Pride petition!

Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition so far, your support really matters - together we will make a difference!

The online petition is really starting to grow but people will only sign…