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.
Our overwhelming priorities are to protect the state pension and pensioner benefits from further attack. Silver Voices is leading the campaign to prevent the state pension from being taxed and our petition on the subject can be signed on the link below:
Save Freeview Campaign
Our recent petition calls on the Government to guarantee the future of terrestrial TV rather than agreeing a full early transition to internet-only TV, which would disadvantage millions of older and low income households. You can sign the petition on the link below:
https://www.change.org/p/save-freeview-tv-for-lynette-and-millions-of-others-who-depend-on-it
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.
WINTER FUEL PAYMENT
Silver Voices played a leading role in the campaign to restore the winter fuel payment, so cruelly scrapped after the new Government took office. The eventual compromise reached, with the payment being returned to 9 million UK pensioners next winter, would not have been achieved without the hundreds of thousands who signed our petitions.
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.
