​Now that we have achieved our principal aim of getting Cambridge City Council to go herbicide-free, from Spring 2024 onwards we are now concentrating our efforts on the following areas: 

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1. Continuing to work with Cambridge City Council, as members of its Herbicide-Reduction Working Group, to improve how it communicates its new herbicide-free policies to the public, both to encourage support, but also to encourage a wider shift to fully pesticide-free practices by other landowners throughout the city. 
    

2. Working directly with other landowners and stakeholders in Cambridge, including Cambridge University, residents, colleges, schools, hospitals, to tackle ongoing pesticide-use in these areas (including both herbicides and insecticides), so as to complement the City Council’s move to herbicide-free methods on publicly owned or managed land. 
    

3. Our work with Pesticide-Free Cambridge Colleges campaign, for which we have our second Roundtable meeting with Head Gardeners and Estates/Facilities teams coming up in early November 2024, where we will discuss amongst other things, the preliminary results of our pesticides-in-colleges audit, how to improve communication between gardeners and estates teams, and tackling insecticidal-powder use in and around the built environment.
    

4. Our local and national pesticide-free schools campaign.
    

5. Our national campaign to ban insecticidal powders, commonly used for ants, and with devastating impacts on non-target wildlife, biodiversity, and human health, especially for vulnerable populations.  
    

6. Our national campaign, working with partners and policy-makers to achieve greater transparency over pesticide usage, and pesticide-free practices, in institutional policy relating to both biodiversity/sustainability, as well as disability access, in light of the special challenges that low-dose pesticide exposure can pose to those with allergies or hypersensitivities to active ingredients. 
    

7. Continued to engage with and expand on our existing research and campaign collaborations and networks, so as to maximise the impact and reach of our campaigns. This includes collaboration and data-sharing with initiatives such as the Pesticides and Urban Nature project  which documents the social-ecological impacts of anti-pesticide campaigning and related policy-change including changing behaviours and attitudes surrounding 'pests', 'weeds', and 'chemical exposure'.  
   
   
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