Animal Welfare Party is delighted to announce two candidates  standing for the party in the May 5th local elections. Richard (Rik) Moran will stand for AWP in Victoria Ward, Southend while Saffron Gloyne will stand in Croydon’s Addiscombe West ward. 

Saffron will focus her campaign on standing up against wildlife crime in Croydon, championing the borough’s ability to become a nationwide leader in the battle against single use plastic and opposing cruel duckling & chick hatching projects in the borough’s schools. 

Rik will focus his campaign on …

Animal Welfare Party held an online AGM on Sunday 20th February 2022.

We reviewed our activities over the past year which included standing in the London Mayoral, London Assembly and Scottish Parliament elections and several successes for animals achieved at local level through our councillor in Alsager, Cheshire and through campaigning on issues across the UK.

The Committee of National Officers, were re-elected, as below:

Leader: Vanessa Hudson

Deputy Leader: Jane Smith

Treasurer: Louise Cobham

Nominating Officer: Jon Homan

A vote was held on the question of whether a monthly payment option …

Animal Welfare Party has today held its third peaceful demonstration outside Manchester Airport protesting against its involvement in the trade of flying live animals into the UK for use in animal testing.

Protestors braved the January wind, rain and hail to stand with banners reading ‘Animals Shipped to Testing Labs Through Manchester Airport’ and ‘Manchester Airport Complicit in Animal Testing’.

The demo came as a related petition calling on Manchester Airport Group to stop accepting Air France animal cargo flights bringing animals such as dogs and primates …

Animal Welfare Party is delighted to announce six candidates contesting the 2019 General Election.

Professor Andrew Knight MANZCVS, DipECAWBM (AWSEL), DACAW, PhD, MRCVS, SFHEA is the AWP candidate for New Forest East in Hampshire

Animal Welfare Party’s Jane Smith has made UK political history by retaining her seat on Alsager Town Council beating both the Labour and Conservative candidates with 357 votes (9.8%) – a record vote share for AWP.

Jane says: “This is a wonderful victory for Animal Welfare Party and our wider animal politics movement, and we’ve now proven that, given the opportunity, people can and will vote at the ballot box for animals’ rights to be heard in human decision-making. I’m so thankful to everyone who helped …

BRUSSELS, 4 April 2019 – The international movement Animal Politics EU, which consists of the Party for the Animals in the Netherlands and its ten European sister parties, will likely gain 5 to 7 seats in the forthcoming European Parliament elections, according to opinion polls in several European countries. This means the animal rights movement in the European Parliament could triple in size. Currently, Anja Hazekamp (the Netherlands) and Stefan Eck (Germany) are the only MEPs who have been elected to the European …