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.

• Ban non-stun slaughter in the UK
  Opened on Thursday 21st November 2024
  29,205 signatures in the past week, 60,740 in total

• Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures
  Opened on Friday 14th February 2025
  15,042 signatures in the past week, 221,796 in total

• Raise the income tax personal allowance from £12,570 to £20,000
  Opened on Friday 20th December 2024
  10,125 signatures in the past week, 170,059 in total

• Extend free bus travel for people over 60 in England
  Opened on Friday 27th December 2024
  8,929 signatures in the past week, 37,668 in total

• End the use of cages and crates for all farmed animals
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  6,615 signatures in the past week, 49,187 in total

• Allow parents to take their children out of school for up to 10 days fine free.
  Opened on Thursday 28th November 2024
  6,552 signatures in the past week, 72,996 in total

• Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
  Opened on Thursday 31st October 2024
  6,348 signatures in the past week, 126,256 in total

• Reduce the ILR qualifying period from 5 years to 3 years for legal immigrants
  Opened on Thursday 23rd January 2025
  5,403 signatures in the past week, 23,781 in total

• Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.
  Opened on Thursday 12th December 2024
  5,289 signatures in the past week, 10,961 in total

• Abolish Non-Crime Hate Incidents
  Opened on Tuesday 24th December 2024
  5,053 signatures in the past week, 32,453 in total

• Grant automatic visa extension and ILR for Ukrainians after 5 years
  Opened on Monday 17th February 2025
  4,007 signatures in the past week, 11,082 in total

• Postural Tachycardia Syndrome: fund training and facilities
  Opened on Thursday 30th January 2025
  3,675 signatures in the past week, 9,896 in total

• Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
  Opened on Tuesday 12th November 2024
  3,496 signatures in the past week, 40,356 in total

• Ban prisoner segregation for periods of more than 15 days
  Opened on Friday 28th February 2025
  3,404 signatures in the past week, 3,404 in total

• Ban driven grouse shooting
  Opened on Friday 22nd November 2024
  2,829 signatures in the past week, 68,368 in total

• End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control
  Opened on Thursday 28th November 2024
  2,460 signatures in the past week, 61,803 in total

• Remove the 28 day time limit from the unduly lenient sentence scheme for murder
  Opened on Wednesday 6th November 2024
  2,339 signatures in the past week, 10,551 in total

• Make the sale of catapults/ammunition and carrying catapults in public illegal.
  Opened on Wednesday 27th November 2024
  2,246 signatures in the past week, 7,628 in total

• Review care for sickle cell patients within the NHS
  Opened on Tuesday 25th February 2025
  2,173 signatures in the past week, 2,173 in total

• Don’t abandon the Chalk Stream recovery pack
  Opened on Tuesday 25th February 2025
  2,165 signatures in the past week, 2,165 in total

• Decriminalise Abortion
  Opened on Monday 4th November 2024
  2,070 signatures in the past week, 97,281 in total

• Raise the standard tax-free Personal Allowance to £45,000
  Opened on Tuesday 26th November 2024
  1,959 signatures in the past week, 45,315 in total

• Ban wind farms on protected peat land in England
  Opened on Friday 24th January 2025
  1,810 signatures in the past week, 5,733 in total

• Call a General Election
  Opened on Wednesday 20th November 2024
  1,687 signatures in the past week, 3,048,339 in total

• Ban LED headlights
  Opened on Thursday 5th December 2024
  1,553 signatures in the past week, 5,525 in total

• Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services
  Opened on Tuesday 28th January 2025
  1,494 signatures in the past week, 1,886 in total

• Stop DWP repeating PIP assessments for disabled people
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  1,340 signatures in the past week, 13,580 in total

• Close the borders! Suspend ALL immigration for 5 years!
  Opened on Tuesday 26th November 2024
  1,302 signatures in the past week, 219,136 in total

• Change requirements for ILR for those who have graduated and worked for 3 years
  Opened on Friday 6th December 2024
  1,226 signatures in the past week, 13,231 in total

• Make the state pension tax exempt
  Opened on Friday 7th February 2025
  1,138 signatures in the past week, 3,367 in total

• Tighten the rules on political donations
  Opened on Wednesday 22nd January 2025
  1,080 signatures in the past week, 139,479 in total

• Require parliamentary scrutiny of any proposal to amend the Royal Mail USO
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  1,077 signatures in the past week, 7,803 in total

• Referendum on illegal migration.
  Opened on Friday 21st February 2025
  1,070 signatures in the past week, 1,462 in total

• Create path to Settlement for Ukrainians in the UK
  Opened on Wednesday 15th January 2025
  990 signatures in the past week, 34,898 in total

• Exempt all social care providers from the employer NIC increase
  Opened on Tuesday 5th November 2024
  939 signatures in the past week, 39,291 in total

• Add hedgehogs to schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981
  Opened on Friday 31st January 2025
  925 signatures in the past week, 4,566 in total

• Introduce 16 as the minimum age for children to have social media
  Opened on Thursday 7th November 2024
  924 signatures in the past week, 128,927 in total

• Fully Repeal the Gender Recognition Act
  Opened on Wednesday 12th February 2025
  920 signatures in the past week, 12,876 in total

• We are petitioning for a National Referendum on Assisted Dying
  Opened on Thursday 9th January 2025
  902 signatures in the past week, 10,229 in total

• Lift restrictions on prescribing puberty blockers to trans children.
  Opened on Wednesday 5th February 2025
  862 signatures in the past week, 9,949 in total

• Embed food, farming, and sustainability education into the national curriculum
  Opened on Friday 1st November 2024
  845 signatures in the past week, 7,295 in total

• Deport all foreign criminals with effect immediately.
  Opened on Tuesday 14th January 2025
  755 signatures in the past week, 4,614 in total

• Provide funding to preserve and protect cemeteries around the UK.
  Opened on Friday 21st February 2025
  675 signatures in the past week, 751 in total

• Update the dangerous dogs act to specifically protect horses
  Opened on Friday 22nd November 2024
  631 signatures in the past week, 19,066 in total

• Don't introduce unique child identifier and increased home education regulation
  Opened on Tuesday 11th February 2025
  602 signatures in the past week, 3,204 in total

• Require landfills that cause smells and toxins near residential areas to close
  Opened on Wednesday 13th November 2024
  588 signatures in the past week, 1,550 in total

• Ban animal testing for human products and medicines
  Opened on Tuesday 19th November 2024
  563 signatures in the past week, 12,721 in total

• Provide funding to support Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening for Disabled Women
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  544 signatures in the past week, 2,072 in total

• Seek to Rejoin the EU Pet Passport Scheme
  Opened on Tuesday 11th February 2025
  539 signatures in the past week, 6,526 in total

• Protect Railway Workers Against Violent Crime
  Opened on Wednesday 26th February 2025
  538 signatures in the past week, 538 in total

• Abolish the tv licence
  Opened on Thursday 28th November 2024
  525 signatures in the past week, 33,733 in total

• Create a new body to regulate landlord and freeholder service charges
  Opened on Thursday 19th December 2024
  523 signatures in the past week, 4,962 in total

• Impose a lifetime ban on animal ownership for anyone convicted of animal cruelty
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  508 signatures in the past week, 3,421 in total

• Regulate lifeguard provision and require them to use coloured flags
  Opened on Thursday 27th February 2025
  501 signatures in the past week, 501 in total

• Introduce a compensation scheme for WASPI women
  Opened on Thursday 21st November 2024
  487 signatures in the past week, 158,431 in total

• Repeal the Climate Change Act 2008 and Net Zero targets
  Opened on Friday 6th December 2024
  481 signatures in the past week, 18,840 in total

• Fund Breast Cancer Screening from Age 40 & Alternative Screening Options
  Opened on Monday 11th November 2024
  461 signatures in the past week, 4,124 in total

• Make breaking a manifesto against the law and trigger a General Election
  Opened on Thursday 7th November 2024
  438 signatures in the past week, 50,543 in total

• Provide funding to help the television industry and support TV freelancers
  Opened on Tuesday 28th January 2025
  417 signatures in the past week, 2,798 in total

• Provide day 1 financial support to parents caring for a seriously ill child
  Opened on Wednesday 29th January 2025
  417 signatures in the past week, 15,389 in total

• Require labelling of beef & dairy from cows fed with additives to reduce methane
  Opened on Tuesday 7th January 2025
  415 signatures in the past week, 35,428 in total

• Ban the use of generative 'AI' in all creative sectors
  Opened on Tuesday 28th January 2025
  413 signatures in the past week, 1,012 in total

• Review decision to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
  Opened on Monday 30th December 2024
  409 signatures in the past week, 13,070 in total

• Make all forms of 'geo-engineering' affecting the environment illegal
  Opened on Monday 23rd December 2024
  405 signatures in the past week, 2,662 in total

• Don't change inheritance tax relief for working farms
  Opened on Wednesday 13th November 2024
  389 signatures in the past week, 152,476 in total

• Expand the winter fuel allowance to other vulnerable people.
  Opened on Monday 30th December 2024
  385 signatures in the past week, 792 in total

• Give police stronger powers to tackle motorcycle theft & increase penalties
  Opened on Thursday 13th February 2025
  376 signatures in the past week, 4,392 in total

• Increase Carer's Allowance to equal minimum wage
  Opened on Tuesday 5th November 2024
  372 signatures in the past week, 10,092 in total

• Fund Awareness and Training Regarding Functional Neurological Disorders (FND)
  Opened on Tuesday 3rd December 2024
  369 signatures in the past week, 8,750 in total

• Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards
  Opened on Thursday 9th January 2025
  319 signatures in the past week, 14,267 in total

• Introduce 'Grow Your Own' Laws for Legal Medical Cannabis Patients (CBPM)
  Opened on Wednesday 20th November 2024
  315 signatures in the past week, 6,165 in total

• Commission a public inquiry into the impact of the UK exiting the European Union
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  313 signatures in the past week, 4,274 in total

• Restart issuing oil and gas licenses in the North Sea
  Opened on Tuesday 21st January 2025
  307 signatures in the past week, 5,644 in total

• Change the law, so that UK citizens can force an immediate General Election
  Opened on Tuesday 24th December 2024
  305 signatures in the past week, 7,790 in total

• Fund free TV licences for all pensioners
  Opened on Tuesday 26th November 2024
  303 signatures in the past week, 39,334 in total

• Appoint a Manufacturing Industry expert in Government to champion industry needs
  Opened on Thursday 13th February 2025
  298 signatures in the past week, 766 in total

• Limit the sale and use of Fireworks to licence holders only
  Opened on Tuesday 5th November 2024
  290 signatures in the past week, 86,484 in total

• Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  289 signatures in the past week, 5,029 in total

• Do not postpone the local elections
  Opened on Tuesday 25th February 2025
  283 signatures in the past week, 283 in total

• Introduce a law preventing copyrighted work being used to train AI
  Opened on Friday 14th February 2025
  279 signatures in the past week, 380 in total

• Allow Visa applicants to pay health surcharge in instalments
  Opened on Thursday 19th December 2024
  255 signatures in the past week, 2,006 in total

• Referendum on changing the Electoral System To Proportional Representation (PR)
  Opened on Wednesday 6th November 2024
  249 signatures in the past week, 41,057 in total

• Review the safeguarding and welfare of artists in the entertainment industry
  Opened on Wednesday 19th February 2025
  246 signatures in the past week, 1,972 in total

• Mandate CCTV in any educational setting that cares for children with SEND
  Opened on Friday 10th January 2025
  240 signatures in the past week, 1,082 in total

• Review how Home Office deals with applications for ILR due to domestic violence
  Opened on Wednesday 26th February 2025
  234 signatures in the past week, 234 in total

• Stop road tax on zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) from 2025
  Opened on Thursday 14th November 2024
  234 signatures in the past week, 1,372 in total

• Run a public information campaign on the climate crisis
  Opened on Friday 8th November 2024
  222 signatures in the past week, 23,217 in total

• Fund a scheme for 20 Years’ service Medals for PCSOs.
  Opened on Thursday 28th November 2024
  221 signatures in the past week, 2,551 in total

• Reverse changes to Winter Fuel Payment
  Opened on Tuesday 5th November 2024
  220 signatures in the past week, 60,556 in total

• Introduce a Statutory Levy on Bookmakers to Fund Greyhound Welfare
  Opened on Thursday 2nd January 2025
  212 signatures in the past week, 3,184 in total

• Nationalise the UK water industry
  Opened on Friday 29th November 2024
  211 signatures in the past week, 4,766 in total

• Remove Permitted Development Rights for all additional telecoms infrastructure.
  Opened on Friday 10th January 2025
  207 signatures in the past week, 2,080 in total

• Uprate state pensions for all UK pensioners living overseas
  Opened on Friday 3rd January 2025
  203 signatures in the past week, 391 in total

• Stop giving homework to primary and secondary school students
  Opened on Friday 13th December 2024
  190 signatures in the past week, 3,202 in total

• Pay pensioners the equivalent of the living wage of a 35 hour week.
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  184 signatures in the past week, 4,272 in total

• RAAC Homeowners Justice: National Fund, Legislative Reform & Public Inquiry Now!
  Opened on Tuesday 17th December 2024
  183 signatures in the past week, 1,748 in total

• Increase the incentive for employers employing an apprentice to £2,000
  Opened on Thursday 30th January 2025
  177 signatures in the past week, 429 in total

• Enable disabled bus pass users to travel during peak times across England
  Opened on Thursday 19th December 2024
  170 signatures in the past week, 297 in total

• Review traditional and social media regulation
  Opened on Monday 20th January 2025
  164 signatures in the past week, 2,378 in total

• Hold a referendum to decide if the UK should leave the ECHR.
  Opened on Wednesday 11th December 2024
  163 signatures in the past week, 15,754 in total