Big Hitters

The big hitters of the petition world. These are the open petitions with the most signatures in the past week. That's the sort of thing that social media would call "trending", but we're not that pretentious.

• Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  115,610 signatures in the past week, 376,886 in total

• Prohibit the wearing of all full-face coverings in public spaces
  Opened on Friday 2nd May 2025
  16,364 signatures in the past week, 39,662 in total

• Shut the migrant hotels down now and deport illegal migrants housed there
  Opened on Tuesday 1st April 2025
  9,738 signatures in the past week, 70,602 in total

• Introduce Licensing and Regulation for Dog and Cat Rescues to Protect Welfare
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  6,723 signatures in the past week, 49,194 in total

• Extend free bus travel for people over 60 in England
  Opened on Friday 27th December 2024
  6,007 signatures in the past week, 74,968 in total

• Lower bowel cancer screening age to 30 & funding for investigation of symptoms
  Opened on Monday 2nd June 2025
  4,756 signatures in the past week, 6,214 in total

• Transfer UK Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine
  Opened on Friday 4th April 2025
  4,108 signatures in the past week, 17,101 in total

• Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season
  Opened on Tuesday 29th April 2025
  4,061 signatures in the past week, 29,142 in total

• Promote plant-based foods over meat and dairy for a healthier Britain
  Opened on Monday 24th March 2025
  3,497 signatures in the past week, 18,725 in total

• Every school & college to be obliged to have an evacuation chair & training
  Opened on Tuesday 18th February 2025
  3,451 signatures in the past week, 28,003 in total

• Reduce the minimum retirement age for Prison Officers to 60
  Opened on Tuesday 6th May 2025
  3,270 signatures in the past week, 7,448 in total

• Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter"
  Opened on Monday 10th March 2025
  3,164 signatures in the past week, 43,834 in total

• Make neurodiversity training mandatory for all education staff
  Opened on Tuesday 29th April 2025
  2,867 signatures in the past week, 18,055 in total

• Ban wind farms on protected peat land in England
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  2,515 signatures in the past week, 14,470 in total

• Raise the income tax personal allowance from £12,570 to £20,000
  Opened on Friday 20th December 2024
  2,368 signatures in the past week, 269,371 in total

• Make the sex offender's registry publicly available to view for everyone.
  Opened on Tuesday 22nd April 2025
  2,309 signatures in the past week, 7,025 in total

• Put the dangers of methanol poisoning on the school curriculum
  Opened on Tuesday 15th April 2025
  2,060 signatures in the past week, 10,805 in total

• Protect Northern Ireland Veterans from Prosecutions
  Opened on Friday 9th May 2025
  1,982 signatures in the past week, 135,915 in total

• Protect Legal Migrants: do not implement the 10-Year ILR proposal
  Opened on Friday 23rd May 2025
  1,882 signatures in the past week, 6,288 in total

• Keep the 5-Year ILR pathway for existing Skilled Worker visa holders
  Opened on Friday 23rd May 2025
  1,840 signatures in the past week, 142,867 in total

• Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  1,617 signatures in the past week, 25,908 in total

• Change the ‘grey belt’ definition in the National Planning Policy Framework
  Opened on Wednesday 14th May 2025
  1,592 signatures in the past week, 4,969 in total

• Remove CWS Bill clauses and provide tangible support to home educating parents
  Opened on Tuesday 1st April 2025
  1,433 signatures in the past week, 28,707 in total

• Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza
  Opened on Tuesday 28th January 2025
  1,402 signatures in the past week, 24,019 in total

• Set up an independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the war in Gaza
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  1,350 signatures in the past week, 1,843 in total

• Ensure that student nurses are paid for their placement hours
  Opened on Tuesday 11th February 2025
  1,332 signatures in the past week, 2,186 in total

• Require Independent Scrutiny Before Passing any Education Laws Affecting Rights
  Opened on Thursday 12th June 2025
  1,322 signatures in the past week, 1,322 in total

• Restart issuing oil and gas licenses in the North Sea
  Opened on Tuesday 21st January 2025
  1,193 signatures in the past week, 9,282 in total

• Allow Veterans who left before 1987 to claim compensation for hearing loss.
  Opened on Wednesday 7th May 2025
  1,136 signatures in the past week, 6,604 in total

• Implement a strategy to protect motorcyclists from imports of unsafe clothing
  Opened on Monday 6th January 2025
  1,120 signatures in the past week, 6,110 in total

• Legislate for a council tax discount for all pensioners
  Opened on Thursday 6th February 2025
  1,045 signatures in the past week, 4,462 in total

• Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures
  Opened on Friday 14th February 2025
  1,025 signatures in the past week, 242,773 in total

• Introduce a distinct attendance code for flexischooling (Code F).
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  1,002 signatures in the past week, 9,931 in total

• Review traditional and social media regulation
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  1,001 signatures in the past week, 5,212 in total

• Stop benefits and free healthcare for immigrants who have not worked in the UK
  Opened on Monday 24th March 2025
  985 signatures in the past week, 3,109 in total

• Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
  Opened on Thursday 13th March 2025
  953 signatures in the past week, 4,044 in total

• Negotiate UK-wide recognition of older person's bus passes
  Opened on Thursday 27th March 2025
  917 signatures in the past week, 1,257 in total

• Raise statutory maternity/paternity pay to match the National Living Wage
  Opened on Tuesday 18th March 2025
  908 signatures in the past week, 85,864 in total

• Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: fund training and facilities
  Opened on Thursday 30th January 2025
  852 signatures in the past week, 14,886 in total

• Apply for the UK to rejoin the EU fully - do not just 'reset' the relationship
  Opened on Tuesday 13th May 2025
  803 signatures in the past week, 9,371 in total

• Provide funding for a nationwide, nature-rich river corridor network.
  Opened on Wednesday 4th June 2025
  802 signatures in the past week, 847 in total

• Reverse decision to pause decisions on asylum applications from Syrians
  Opened on Monday 17th March 2025
  780 signatures in the past week, 4,105 in total

• Change the law, so that UK citizens can force an immediate General Election
  Opened on Tuesday 24th December 2024
  764 signatures in the past week, 19,833 in total

• Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy
  Opened on Monday 28th April 2025
  734 signatures in the past week, 8,726 in total

• Abolish tuition fees for healthcare courses and pay students on NHS placements
  Opened on Monday 24th March 2025
  723 signatures in the past week, 7,385 in total

• Make all forms of 'geo-engineering' affecting the environment illegal
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  711 signatures in the past week, 159,422 in total

• Pay pensioners the equivalent of the living wage of a 35 hour week.
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  682 signatures in the past week, 13,662 in total

• Deport all immigrants that arrive illegally from safe countries
  Opened on Tuesday 7th January 2025
  665 signatures in the past week, 6,617 in total

• Strengthen the Animal Welfare Act 2006
  Opened on Tuesday 22nd April 2025
  635 signatures in the past week, 16,947 in total

• Launch a Public Inquiry into Grooming Gangs
  Opened on Tuesday 4th March 2025
  631 signatures in the past week, 27,311 in total

• Grant the vote for London Mayor to all UK Residents
  Opened on Friday 9th May 2025
  604 signatures in the past week, 54,442 in total

• Provide a legal right to access certain services without a digital device
  Opened on Tuesday 20th May 2025
  571 signatures in the past week, 2,869 in total

• Reverse guidance stopping refugees gaining citizenship
  Opened on Monday 12th May 2025
  571 signatures in the past week, 23,624 in total

• RAAC Homeowners Justice: National Fund, Legislative Reform & Public Inquiry Now!
  Opened on Tuesday 17th December 2024
  529 signatures in the past week, 6,730 in total

• A2 motorcycle licences to upgrade to an A license automatically after 2 years
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  490 signatures in the past week, 3,225 in total

• Introduce statutory provision for independence referendums in Scotland & Wales.
  Opened on Monday 16th December 2024
  485 signatures in the past week, 6,996 in total

• Fund more staff training and better facilities in psychiatric hospitals
  Opened on Monday 31st March 2025
  476 signatures in the past week, 5,975 in total

• End the use of cages and crates for all farmed animals
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  445 signatures in the past week, 104,962 in total

• Lower the age for invites to regular mammograms to 40.
  Opened on Friday 11th April 2025
  433 signatures in the past week, 502 in total

• Recognise the production and serving of cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage
  Opened on Tuesday 1st April 2025
  412 signatures in the past week, 26,762 in total

• Raise the age of compulsory education in England to Six & reform Early Education
  Opened on Friday 6th June 2025
  394 signatures in the past week, 394 in total

• Allow families with SEN children 10 days term-time holiday without being fined
  Opened on Tuesday 28th January 2025
  390 signatures in the past week, 5,787 in total

• End the Injustice: Grant British Nationals (Overseas) Full UK Citizenship
  Opened on Thursday 27th March 2025
  384 signatures in the past week, 21,153 in total

• Don’t abandon the Chalk Stream recovery pack
  Opened on Tuesday 25th February 2025
  379 signatures in the past week, 11,638 in total

• Add hedgehogs to schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981
  Opened on Friday 31st January 2025
  376 signatures in the past week, 6,984 in total

• Enact measures to combat knife crime
  Opened on Friday 20th December 2024
  372 signatures in the past week, 37,270 in total

• Add Assault of a Roadworker to the Crime and Policing Bill
  Opened on Thursday 24th April 2025
  370 signatures in the past week, 4,111 in total

• Allow licences to be issued to wildlife rehabilitators to release grey squirrels
  Opened on Wednesday 4th June 2025
  354 signatures in the past week, 986 in total

• Require councils to pause council tax bills for three months
  Opened on Wednesday 4th June 2025
  352 signatures in the past week, 386 in total

• Review Government's approach to redacting Polish Military Records held by MoD
  Opened on Thursday 17th April 2025
  348 signatures in the past week, 2,476 in total

• Ban the wearing of face-coverings during marches and protests
  Opened on Friday 3rd January 2025
  306 signatures in the past week, 3,621 in total

• Remove illegal immigrants from UK hotels and set up temporary camping sites
  Opened on Tuesday 17th December 2024
  301 signatures in the past week, 3,244 in total

• Commit to not removing the presumption of parental involvement
  Opened on Tuesday 20th May 2025
  299 signatures in the past week, 885 in total

• Help to return Ukrainian children that have been forcibly taken by Russia
  Opened on Friday 30th May 2025
  289 signatures in the past week, 1,102 in total

• Review decision to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
  Opened on Monday 30th December 2024
  289 signatures in the past week, 17,394 in total

• Abolish council Tax
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  278 signatures in the past week, 774 in total

• Tighten the rules on political donations
  Opened on Wednesday 22nd January 2025
  274 signatures in the past week, 143,858 in total

• Require all meat to be labelled to indicate the method of slaughter, as such
  Opened on Tuesday 11th February 2025
  268 signatures in the past week, 3,836 in total

• Review and support the continued operation of pubs to prevent more closures
  Opened on Tuesday 8th April 2025
  267 signatures in the past week, 4,405 in total

• Statutory sick pay from day 1 of absence for those with chronic illness
  Opened on Wednesday 4th June 2025
  266 signatures in the past week, 371 in total

• Fund mandatory endometriosis training for all NHS staff
  Opened on Thursday 12th June 2025
  265 signatures in the past week, 265 in total

• Hold a UK referendum before joining any defence and security pact with the EU.
  Opened on Tuesday 15th April 2025
  258 signatures in the past week, 20,605 in total

• Allow motorcycles in bus lanes as default
  Opened on Friday 28th February 2025
  258 signatures in the past week, 21,220 in total

• The UK should start talks on forming a CANZUK union
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  256 signatures in the past week, 7,844 in total

• Ban the use of generative 'AI' in all creative sectors
  Opened on Tuesday 28th January 2025
  252 signatures in the past week, 3,868 in total

• Abolish Non-Crime Hate Incidents
  Opened on Tuesday 24th December 2024
  249 signatures in the past week, 34,715 in total

• Call an immediate general election
  Opened on Thursday 5th June 2025
  243 signatures in the past week, 654 in total

• Hold a Royal Commission on reform of the Westminster voting system
  Opened on Wednesday 22nd January 2025
  239 signatures in the past week, 2,196 in total

• Impose a lifetime ban on animal ownership for anyone convicted of animal cruelty
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  237 signatures in the past week, 13,779 in total

• Stop the roll out and use of trusted digital identity services
  Opened on Thursday 19th December 2024
  236 signatures in the past week, 390 in total

• Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
  Opened on Friday 25th April 2025
  234 signatures in the past week, 5,144 in total

• Stop DWP repeating PIP assessments for disabled people
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  222 signatures in the past week, 24,232 in total

• Provide funding to support Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening for Disabled Women
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  209 signatures in the past week, 2,985 in total

• Increase funding for IVF & fertility treatments to increase access.
  Opened on Thursday 20th February 2025
  208 signatures in the past week, 3,100 in total

• Fund screening for neurodivergent conditions in schools & teacher training
  Opened on Monday 6th January 2025
  208 signatures in the past week, 2,949 in total

• Amend the Recall of MPs Act 2015 for MPs who have misled voters
  Opened on Tuesday 31st December 2024
  203 signatures in the past week, 6,943 in total

• Provide funding to preserve and protect cemeteries around the UK.
  Opened on Friday 21st February 2025
  202 signatures in the past week, 3,504 in total

• Deport all foreign criminals with effect immediately.
  Opened on Tuesday 14th January 2025
  191 signatures in the past week, 6,171 in total

• Require all doctors to receive perimenopause training & GPs to have specialists
  Opened on Tuesday 3rd June 2025
  190 signatures in the past week, 617 in total

• Make the state pension tax exempt
  Opened on Friday 7th February 2025
  186 signatures in the past week, 6,674 in total