News

2 / 4 / 2019

Live in Poole?

Then if you shop in Parkstone Waitrose this month, please choose Purple Teardrop Campaign for your green token donation!

11 / 11 / 2018

November Progress Report

Thank you to all Soroptimists who visited the Purple Teardrop Campaign stand at the SI Great Britain and Ireland Conference in Liverpool in October. And thank you to everyone who used Purple Teardrop Campaign resources for their Anti Slavery Day events on 18th October. Our November Progress Report gives a round-up of all of these and more. And for those of you following the petition’s progress, here’s the latest chart showing the geographical distribution of signatories.

1 / 9 / 2018

August Progress Report

Purple Teardrop Campaign’s latest round-up plus petition bar chart update.

1 / 9 / 2018

Summer Newsletter

Our summer Newsletter is now available here.

27 / 5 / 2018

Latest Progress Report

Our May edition is now available with news on our petition, Lord McColl’s Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill, the Sunday Times’s report on pop-up brothels plus a round-up of Soroptimist International action. The latest bar chart is here too.

23 / 3 / 2018

All the latest in our March Progress Report

We hope you find this month’s Progress Report and Bar Chart an informative read.

13 / 3 / 2018

Trustees Annual Report

The Purple Teardrop Campaign’s Trustees Report, January 2018.

27 / 1 / 2018

Thank you Waitrose Shoppers!

A big thank you from us all at Purple Teardrop Campaign to the kind shoppers at Parkstone Waitrose who chose us as their preferred Community Matters charity in December.

You raised an amazing £348 which will help support human trafficking survivors through their recovery and help us continue our work raising awareness of modern slavery in the UK.

20 / 1 / 2018

Razia, a new take on modern slavery

Author Abda Khan’s new novel, Razia, which she is crowdfunding for with award-winning publisher, Unbound.

“I am trying to raise awareness about a number of issues which are featured in the book, including modern day slavery, told through a gripping and thought-provoking story.” Abda, January 2018.

Abda’s YouTube.

 

20 / 1 / 2018

Co-operative paid work programme for human trafficking survivors

The BBC reports on how the the Co-operative is supporting human trafficking survivors – see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42721936

Fabulous work Co-operative! Tesco, Body Shop etc, we’d love to see you step up to the plate on this one! If the Co-op can overcome the hr hurdles, so can you!