CAMPAIGNS
Silver Voices is in essence a campaigns organisation. We do not concentrate our time on academic research or on servicing internal committees. We campaign to get the voice of older people heard on the main issues of the day.
We are currently focussing our efforts on the aftermath of the Budget on 30 October, with the protection of pensioner benefits and the state pension as priorities. We also have ongoing campaigns on the NHS (waiting lists and access to GPs), social care reform, age discrimination, digital exclusion, retention of landlines and the TV licence fee.
BUDGET OCTOBER 2024
Silver Voices campaigned around a petition for a Budget which protects older people by restoring a winter fuel payment, ruling out other attacks on pensioner benefits, and improving the basic state pension. The petition still can be signed and shared on the following link:
https://www.change.org/Budget-Must-Protect-Older-People
WINTER FUEL PAYMENT
Silver Voices will continue to campaign for the cruel policy to scrap the winter fuel payment for 10 million older people to be reversed. We are working with all other older people’s organisations to this end. Our own petition on the subject has over 100,000 signatures and can be signed on the following link:
https://www.change.org/p/save-the-winter-fuel-payment
IMAGE: Silver Voices Director Dennis Reed at a protest rally outside Parliament
SILVER MANIFESTO
After consultation with the membership, Silver Voices published the following Manifesto to influence politicians in the run-up to the General Election. This document is being retained as an important compendium of our agreed policies.
