Press for change events

From Bristol to Birmingham, from Bestival to the Big Chill, we've been up and down the country collecting your thumbprints to really make a difference for some of the poorest kids around the world.

63,569 thumbprints, 3 shopping centres, 7 festivals and lots of purple thumbs, means our message reached hundreds of thousands of people across the country and worldwide. You joined us to press for change at various events around the country including: 

• Womad: 23-25 July
• Camp Bestival: 29 July – 1 August
• Girl Guides Camp: 5-8 August
• Cabot circus, Bristol: 2-5 September
• Bullring Birmingham: 9-14 September
• Hand-in event, Westminster with Bond: 15 September
• Hand-in with Mumsnet: 16 September
• Make Noise for MDGs event, Westminster: 18 September
• Westfield, London: 16-23 September

Were you there? View our gallery and see.

This was our chance to ask the UK coalition government to take a leadership role and make sure that world leaders at the United Nations Summit kept their promise to reduce child poverty and maternal mortality by 75% by 2015. With 63,569 thumbprints collected we did just that.