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List of pressure groups in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of pressure groups in the United Kingdom. These pressure groups, based on their relationship with United Kingdom policy makers, can be divided into insider groups, who have high degree of involvement and influence and outsider groups, who have little or no direct involvement or influence.

Contents

Cause

Cause, promotional or attitude groups aim to change opinions and attitudes.

Animal welfare and animal rights

  • Animal
  • Animal Liberation Front
  • British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection
  • Buckfast Farming
  • Hunt Saboteurs Association
  • League Against Cruel Sports
  • OneKind
  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (regional affiliate in the UK)
  • Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
  • Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals

    • Business

  • Association of British Insurers (ABI)
  • British Bankers' Association (BBA)
  • British Chambers of Commerce (BCC)
  • Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
  • Corporate Watch
  • Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)
  • TheCityUK
  • Mediawatch-uk

    • Cultural

  • British Deaf Association
  • British Stammering Association
  • Countryside Alliance
  • Saddleworth White Rose Society
  • Welsh Language Society
  • Yorkshire Ridings Society

    • Environmental

  • Campaign for Better Transport
  • Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales
  • Campaign to Protect Rural England
  • Climate Camp
  • Greenpeace
  • Forum for the Future
  • Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
  • Friends of the Earth Scotland
  • Plane Stupid
  • Population Matters
  • Sandbag
  • The Soil Association
  • Surfers Against Sewage
  • Rights Of Way Alliance Neath (Rowan)
  • Rowers Against Thames Sewage (RATS)
  • Waste Watch
  • Women's Environmental Network
  • World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF)

    • Family relationships

  • Fathers' rights movement in the UK
  • Families Need Fathers
  • Fatherhood Institute
  • Fathers 4 Justice
  • New Fathers 4 Justice
  • Mothers Apart from Their Children
  • National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)

    • Abortion

    Pro-life
  • LIFE
  • Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
  • UK Life League

    • Food

  • Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)
  • The Food Commission
  • Sustain - alliance for better food and farming land owners
  • FDA

    • Human rights

  • Amnesty International
  • Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE)
  • JUSTICE
  • Liberty
  • Survival International

    • LGBT rights

  • Lesbians Against Pit Closures (defunct)
  • Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (defunct)
  • OutRage!
  • Stonewall

    • International development

  • Amnesty International
  • Christian Aid
  • Oxfam
  • People & Planet
  • Stop AIDS Campaign
  • World Development Movement

    • Political

  • 38 Degrees
  • Article 19
  • Campaign Against Arms Trade
  • Campaign for Freedom of Information
  • Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
  • Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
  • Celtic League
  • Charter88 (merged with the New Politics Network to form Unlock Democracy in 2007)
  • Electoral Reform Society
  • English Defence League
  • The Freedom Association
  • International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons UK
  • Labour Representation Committee
  • Make Votes Matter
  • MigrationWatch UK
  • Muslim Council of Britain
  • National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
  • NO2ID
  • Republic
  • Social Liberal Forum
  • Society for Individual Freedom
  • Stop the War Coalition
  • TaxPayers' Alliance

    • British EU-based pressure groups

  • Business for Britain
  • Britain in Europe
  • Britain Stronger in Europe
  • British Influence
  • Business for New Europe
  • Campaign for an Independent Britain
  • Conservatives for Britain
  • Democracy Movement
  • European Movement
  • Grassroots Out (GO)
  • Nucleus
  • Labour for a Referendum
  • Labour In for Britain
  • Labour Leave
  • Leave.EU
  • Students for Britain
  • Vote Leave

    • Population

  • Population Matters

    • Public health

  • Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) – registered charity in the UK, influential in lobbying for and implementing the English smoking ban
  • Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (FOREST)

    • Religious/secular groups

  • British Humanist Association
  • Christian Institute
  • National Secular Society

    • Women

  • The Fawcett Society
  • The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (known as "suffragists"; defunct)
  • The Women's Social and Political Union (known as "suffragettes"; defunct)

    • Youth

  • UKYouth

    • References

    List of pressure groups in the United Kingdom Wikipedia
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