Why 38 degrees

With 38 Degrees, you can start a petition on any issue that's close to your heart. It only takes a few minutes to get your petition started. Start your own petition on an issue you care about: Start a petition. What would you like to campaign on? You can start a petition in just a few minutes Start a petition. Pandora Papers: Close tax loopholes for the rich and powerful collected. Sign the petition urging the Government to freeze rail prices in Commuters are set to face the biggest rise in rail fares in almost a decade.

Sign the petition: Increase the Warm Home Discount Scheme payment Households across the country are facing higher energy bills. Start a petition Is your local hospital under threat? People have started asking if the organisation has a secret formula. I believe it owes its success to staying true to its founding principle of 'people. The team that created 38 Degrees wanted to build on the success of other organisations, such as MoveOn. Firstly, one of the most important things it learned from these other organisations, and worked to replicate with 38 Degrees, was to keep the actions as simple as possible — a truism that is often forgotten when thinking about digital campaigns.

The technical architecture might well be complex, but the user experience must be simple and straightforward to work well. So the campaigns that members are asked to support within 38 Degrees are simple one-step actions — signing a petition or sending a message to an MP — rather than more traditional, complex long-term campaigns. This might mean that members take more than one discrete action towards achieving a positive outcome on the issue at hand, but the actions themselves are always meant to be simple, tangible steps toward that result.

These simple, straightforward actions allow 38 Degrees members to come together and empower each other to create change. I hate them. Do you want those rare turtles to die? Do you hate the NHS? Do you not care about the plight of women on the island of ClickThisLinkia? What kind of monster are you? I was their prisoner, chained to the radiator of my own conscience. Some petitions make sense, of course, but there are prerequisites. It needs to contain a clear request for something that can be done to someone who can do it in a way that is likely to have an impact.

A petition to an MP asking them to support or oppose a particular measure in an upcoming vote, looking for signatures from the postcodes that make up their constituency, might make sense.