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She then proceeded to lead a very large network of people right across the UK to undertake educational, political, media and grassroots work to defend the right to life of every human being. Right To Life UK was founded by Phyllis to ensure that her pioneering work on life issues could be continued on a larger scale. 

Right To Life UK continues her work today, uniting people from around the country to focus on protecting and defending human life.

We have included below highlights from some of our recent work to demonstrate how we are making a positive difference.

We are committed to an evidence-based approach to life issues, uniting people from different political ideologies and philosophical beliefs (including those who are non-religious, religious, or agnostic).

We are independent and non-party political. Our focus is life issues, and we engage with elected representatives from all parties across the UK Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly on life issues as part of our charitable work. We do not support, oppose or endorse individual parties or candidates.

Right To Life UK was founded by the late Phyllis Bowman. Phyllis was one of the first major campaigners on the abortion issue globally, launching her work to protect the unborn child and increase support for women facing unplanned pregnancies, prior to the passing of the Abortion Act in 1967.

She then proceeded to lead a very large network of people right across the UK to undertake educational, political, media and grassroots work to defend the right to life of every human being. Right To Life UK was founded by Phyllis to ensure that her pioneering work on life issues could be continued on a larger scale. 

Right To Life UK continues her work today, uniting people from around the country to focus on protecting and defending human life.

We have included below highlights from some of our recent work to demonstrate how we are making a positive difference.

Reaching this milestone means we now have many more people in constituencies across the United Kingdom ready to take grassroots action. This significantly increases the positive impact we can have.

On the front line in Parliament, this means that when a challenge or opportunity arises that needs constituents to act, we can help supporters around the country take part in the democratic process by contacting their MPs.

This sends a clear message to MPs that their constituents care deeply about life issues such as abortion and assisted suicide, encouraging them to consider the evidence and the impact on the most vulnerable in our society, and to vote in a way that protects life and those vulnerable who are most at risk. For MPs who share these concerns, it demonstrates that they have significant support in their constituencies, enabling them to speak out on life issues in Parliament with confidence.

In terms of changing the broader culture on life issues, this growing network of grassroots campaigners has also been equipped with the resources they need to spread the pro-life message – not only to their local MPs but also to their friends, families, and local communities.

Decisions about our laws regarding abortion and assisted suicide don’t happen in a vacuum. Lasting change can only happen alongside a shift in the wider culture.

Our 250,000 supporters are a vital part of effecting change in Parliament, along with a wider change to our culture.

Right To Life UK supporters are people who join our database as part of our grassroots community from constituencies around the country, who take actions to help us build a pro-life society. 

They email their MPs, get involved in our campaigns, speak to people in their local communities about life issues, and support our work in a variety of ways.

When it comes to pro-life organisations solely focused on life issues, Right To Life UK has the largest grassroots supporter database in the UK and Europe, and one of the largest in the world.

Reaching this milestone means we now have many more people in constituencies across the United Kingdom ready to take grassroots action. This significantly increases the positive impact we can have.

On the front line in Parliament, this means that when a challenge or opportunity arises that needs constituents to act, we can help supporters around the country take part in the democratic process by contacting their MPs.

This sends a clear message to MPs that their constituents care deeply about life issues such as abortion and assisted suicide, encouraging them to consider the evidence and the impact on the most vulnerable in our society, and to vote in a way that protects life and those vulnerable who are most at risk. For MPs who share these concerns, it demonstrates that they have significant support in their constituencies, enabling them to speak out on life issues in Parliament with confidence.

In terms of changing the broader culture on life issues, this growing network of grassroots campaigners has also been equipped with the resources they need to spread the pro-life message – not only to their local MPs but also to their friends, families, and local communities.

Decisions about our laws regarding abortion and assisted suicide don’t happen in a vacuum. Lasting change can only happen alongside a shift in the wider culture.

Our 250,000 supporters are a vital part of effecting change in Parliament, along with a wider change to our culture.

Our focus on mainstream media is vital because this allows us to reach a large middle ground of people, with a focus on areas where research shows the majority of people are very receptive to seeing positive political and cultural change in relation to our abortion laws.

This can be challenging, as many parts of the media are cautious or not always sympathetic towards the right-to-life point of view. However, we have found there are several key areas where public opinion is clearly on our side, such as concern about our current late abortion time limit, sex-selective abortion, and abortion on grounds of disability, including Down’s syndrome, cleft lip and club foot.

We have been able to target these areas to effectively shape the debate towards a wider recognition of the right to life of the unborn child and the need to support mothers who are dealing with unplanned pregnancies.

On the assisted suicide front, this year we have worked directly with mainstream media outlets to build momentum against proposals to introduce assisted suicide. 

Wherever possible, we have ensured that the spokespeople we deploy as the voice on these issues in the media are most likely to connect with mainstream audiences. This has included women who have been personally affected by abortion, people who could be directly affected by the introduction of assisted suicide, and medical experts.

A crucial part of our work in changing the wider culture on life issues such as abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia and embryo research is ensuring that pro-life messaging is regularly heard in the media.

This year, we have developed new relationships with senior journalists across a large number of media outlets, which has helped our carefully crafted pro-life messaging feature in over 1,000 print, digital and broadcast media pieces.

We have further expanded our media reach with a specific emphasis on getting positive pro-life messaging featured regularly in the mainstream media.

Our focus on mainstream media is vital because this allows us to reach a large middle ground of people, with a focus on areas where research shows the majority of people are very receptive to seeing positive political and cultural change in relation to our abortion laws.

This can be challenging, as many parts of the media are cautious or not always sympathetic towards the right-to-life point of view. However, we have found there are several key areas where public opinion is clearly on our side, such as concern about our current late abortion time limit, sex-selective abortion, and abortion on grounds of disability, including Down’s syndrome, cleft lip and club foot.

We have been able to target these areas to effectively shape the debate towards a wider recognition of the right to life of the unborn child and the need to support mothers who are dealing with unplanned pregnancies.

On the assisted suicide front, this year we have worked directly with mainstream media outlets to build momentum against proposals to introduce assisted suicide. 

Wherever possible, we have ensured that the spokespeople we deploy as the voice on these issues in the media are most likely to connect with mainstream audiences. This has included women who have been personally affected by abortion, people who could be directly affected by the introduction of assisted suicide, and medical experts.

Thanks to people like you sharing our content, our posts and videos on social media have been viewed over one hundred million times in the last year.

This includes beautifully produced videos, imagery, news articles and resources, designed by our team from the ground up to change hearts and minds on life issues.

It has also involved our team live-posting key video highlights, updates and explainers during the large number of parliamentary debates that have taken place on abortion and assisted suicide this year. This has helped shape the narrative around the issues being considered in real time as the debate has unfolded.

We have also further developed our in-house digital video capacity to respond to the rapid growth of short-form video online. This has allowed us to produce a series of world-class videos that we have rolled out in our campaigns and on social media.

All of this content has been produced by our own digital team at a far lower cost than hiring top-tier creative and digital agencies.

This strategy has enabled us to reach a new generation of people on a large scale through our growing presence on Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Bluesky and TikTok.

The approach that took us to 100 million views was delivered by our in-house digital team for a tiny fraction of the cost of what would be needed to achieve the same reach through traditional advertising. This ensures that every pound given by our generous supporters has as much of an impact as possible.

As an organisation, we are relentlessly focused on ensuring that we have the greatest possible impact, and on carefully measuring that impact so we know what truly helps us reach more people and change more hearts and minds.

Alongside hitting the 250,000 supporter milestone, we have greatly expanded the number of people we reach online. Our website is now the most visited site of any pro-life organisation solely focused on life issues in the UK and Europe, and the second most visited such website in the world.

Our website sits at the centre of a wider digital strategy across major social media platforms.

Thanks to people like you sharing our content, our posts and videos on social media have been viewed over one hundred million times in the last year.

This includes beautifully produced videos, imagery, news articles and resources, designed by our team from the ground up to change hearts and minds on life issues.

It has also involved our team live-posting key video highlights, updates and explainers during the large number of parliamentary debates that have taken place on abortion and assisted suicide this year. This has helped shape the narrative around the issues being considered in real time as the debate has unfolded.

We have also further developed our in-house digital video capacity to respond to the rapid growth of short-form video online. This has allowed us to produce a series of world-class videos that we have rolled out in our campaigns and on social media.

All of this content has been produced by our own digital team at a far lower cost than hiring top-tier creative and digital agencies.

This strategy has enabled us to reach a new generation of people on a large scale through our growing presence on Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Bluesky and TikTok.

The approach that took us to 100 million views was delivered by our in-house digital team for a tiny fraction of the cost of what would be needed to achieve the same reach through traditional advertising. This ensures that every pound given by our generous supporters has as much of an impact as possible.

We have combined this with regular updates to our EasyAction MP contact tools to make it even easier for people from around the country to contact their MPs with well-researched pro-life messaging that helps make the pro-life case for positive change to our laws to MPs.

Thank you to everyone who has either emailed or visited their MPs throughout this year. You have played an important part in ensuring MPs feel that they have the backing of their constituents when it comes to courageously speaking out in Parliament in support of the unborn child and pregnant women, and protecting the vulnerable by preventing the introduction of assisted suicide.

This has built on the already large number of MPs and Peers we have a direct relationship with and has enabled us to work with them to make the case in Parliament to prevent extreme changes to our abortion legislation and build momentum for positive pro-life changes to our laws.

This work in Parliament is supported by providing vital information to the public through digital resources such as our Where Do They Stand voting record platform. This gives up-to-date information on where MPs stand on life issues, along with a full account of their voting records.

We have combined this with regular updates to our EasyAction MP contact tools to make it even easier for people from around the country to contact their MPs with well-researched pro-life messaging that helps make the pro-life case for positive change to our laws to MPs.

Thank you to everyone who has either emailed or visited their MPs throughout this year. You have played an important part in ensuring MPs feel that they have the backing of their constituents when it comes to courageously speaking out in Parliament in support of the unborn child and pregnant women, and protecting the vulnerable by preventing the introduction of assisted suicide.

We spent 18 months preparing for this work. This project included building strong working relationships with MPs who were actively engaged on these issues. That helped ensure procedural concerns were clearly put to the Speaker, and that MPs across Parliament had the information they needed to scrutinise the remaining amendment.

Alongside this, we worked to place a large number of positive pro-life articles in the mainstream media to provide the right momentum in the public eye for our side over this period.

The final key component has been building a very large base of grassroots supporters in every constituency in the country. This meant that when we asked our supporters to email their MPs, it became crystal clear that a large number of people in their constituencies did not want these extreme changes.

None of this would have been in place in order to help achieve this amazing victory without generous donations from our supporters.

The attempt to amend the UK Government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill with two extreme abortion proposals failed, in a major pro-life victory.

To put in perspective how significant a defeat on this amendment would have been for the abortion campaign groups involved, if they had taken the amendment through to a vote and lost, this would have been the first time that a pro-abortion amendment or Bill had been defeated in a vote in UK history.

Thank you to the thousands of people who rallied friends and family to email their MPs. MPs received more emails ahead of this vote than they have ever received ahead of an abortion vote. Thank you also to our supporters who gave so generously to enable us to have the resources in place to run a very large campaign against these amendments.

We spent 18 months preparing for this work. This project included building strong working relationships with MPs who were actively engaged on these issues. That helped ensure procedural concerns were clearly put to the Speaker, and that MPs across Parliament had the information they needed to scrutinise the remaining amendment.

Alongside this, we worked to place a large number of positive pro-life articles in the mainstream media to provide the right momentum in the public eye for our side over this period.

The final key component has been building a very large base of grassroots supporters in every constituency in the country. This meant that when we asked our supporters to email their MPs, it became crystal clear that a large number of people in their constituencies did not want these extreme changes.

None of this would have been in place in order to help achieve this amazing victory without generous donations from our supporters.

This has likely helped protect a large number of lives, ensuring that the vulnerable people who would be directly impacted by the introduction of assisted suicide have not risked an early death as a result of assisted suicide being legal.

This ended in a decisive and, arguably, the largest win for the right-to-life movement in UK history.

We have taken the strategic, media and digital expertise that we built up from working with a large group of allies to defeat the Marris assisted suicide Bill, to continue to make a strong case against the introduction of assisted suicide.

The decisive win has meant that it has been difficult for assisted suicide campaign groups to bring forward legislation on this issue, with there being an almost 10-year delay before they were successful at bringing forward new proposals.

This has likely helped protect a large number of lives, ensuring that the vulnerable people who would be directly impacted by the introduction of assisted suicide have not risked an early death as a result of assisted suicide being legal.

We currently have good relationships with a number of mainstream media outlets, which ensures that we get to comment regularly in the media. That said, we can’t always ensure that these articles cover all the key points that the public needs to know about a given issue.

Our news service ensures that the public has a trustworthy platform where reliable pro-life news and views are accessible to everyone in the UK, and that we are not limited by what editors in major newspapers choose to publish.

Our website is now the most visited site of any pro-life organisation solely focused on life issues in the UK and Europe, and the second most visited such website in the world. At the core of the website is our digital news service.

This news service has been launched so that we can reach a far wider audience of people with UK-focused, pro-life news that will keep people informed and help change even more hearts and minds on life issues.

We have designed the platform from the ground up so that it is easily viewable across desktop, mobile and tablet, as increasing numbers of people are accessing content on their mobile phones and tablet devices. Our team have also put a lot of work into designing a look and feel for the service that is of professional standard, similar to what you would expect to see from a major global media outlet.

We currently have good relationships with a number of mainstream media outlets, which ensures that we get to comment regularly in the media. That said, we can’t always ensure that these articles cover all the key points that the public needs to know about a given issue.

Our news service ensures that the public has a trustworthy platform where reliable pro-life news and views are accessible to everyone in the UK, and that we are not limited by what editors in major newspapers choose to publish.

A big focus for us as an organisation is ensuring that every pound we receive from our generous supporters has as big a positive impact as possible.

An important part of being able to deliver maximum impact is ensuring that as much of every pound raised as possible is spent directly on our frontline work rather than on fundraising costs.

To deliver on this, we work to do everything we can to keep our fundraising costs as low as possible, aiming to keep these below 1% of the money raised. In the most recent year, only 0.69% of the money we raised was spent on fundraising costs. That means that for every £100 donated, only 69p was spent on fundraising, and the rest went towards our frontline work.

This fundraising cost ratio is considerably lower than many similar-sized charities in the United Kingdom.

In everything we do, we begin by discerning how we can work together with as many as possible of the large number of other organisations and subject matter experts with which we already have a relationship, to ensure that we are having maximum impact.

We began by working with a large number of organisations and experts to defeat the Marris assisted suicide Bill, and our teamwork with these groups continued to develop as our focus moved to “beginning of life” issues.

Now, we are concentrating together on defeating the introduction of abortion on demand, for any reason, up to birth, along with fresh attempts to introduce assisted suicide.