People and Planet
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| Founded | 1969 as 'Third World First' |
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| Type | Company Limited by Guarantee and Charity registered in England & Wales and Scotland. |
| Focus | Student activism, Poverty, Human Rights and Environmentalism |
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Area served
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UK |
| Method | Lobbying, protest, direct action |
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Revenue
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£380,000 Pound Sterling (2010-11) |
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Volunteers
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20,000+ members of their primary mailing list |
| Slogan | Student action on World Poverty, Human Rights and the Environment. |
| Website | peopleandplanet.org |
People & Planet is a network of student campaign groups in the UK. It is "the largest student campaigning organization in the country campaigning to alleviate world poverty, defend human rights and protect the environment."
People & Planet is Britain's largest student network campaigning on global poverty, human rights, and the environment. The network has over 2,000 active members at 50 universities and 79 schools and colleges across the UK.
People & Planet groups are autonomous and there is no formal membership system. The organisation is overseen by a Management Committee, the majority of whom are student members elected by the network. The support office, based in Oxford, provides training, outreach and resources to support groups and campaigns.
People & Planet is funded primarily from governmental grants, trusts and foundations, and an increasingly successful social enterprise training FE and school students. People & Planet has a Fundraising and Activist Network called the FAN Club, allowing members to make regular monthly donations that provide invaluable unrestricted income to support the organization's work.
The organization was founded in 1969 as Third World First by a group of students at Oxford University, supported by NGOs including Oxfam. In 1997, the network voted to change the name to People & Planet.
Third World First was instrumental in setting up the magazine, The Internationalist which was later reincarnated as the now popular activist-magazine, The New Internationalist.
People & Planet's current campaign areas are climate change and corporate power.
People & Planet are currently running the Buy Right campaign, focusing on defending human rights within university supply chains. Universities are being encouraged to sign up to the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent monitoring organisation that supports workers in the garment industry in defending their workplace rights. People & Planet is also currently involved in plans to set up a new organisation, Electronics Watch, which will perform a similar monitoring function in the Electronics sector.
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