We Own It, our campaign for public ownership of our public services, has been around for just over 10 years! Here's an overview of everything we've won for people not profit together over the past decade.

2013

• We Own It was launched!
• We published our first report: ‘Better in Public Hands’

2014

• We helped save child protection services from privatisation

2016

• We helped keep the land registry public
• We worked with other groups to stop the privatisation of Network Rail and the sale of 18 major train stations

2017

• We saved ‘NHS Professionals’ from being sold off

2018

• Victory for the 'Make East Coast Rail public' campaign!

2019

• We successfully pressured the Justice Secretary to bring probation into public ownership
• Our ‘When We Own It report published

2020

• At the beginning of the pandemic we published Privatised and Unprepared: The NHS Supply Chain report
• By Summer 2020, over 300,000 people signed our petition calling on Parliament to protect the NHS from trade deals, which led to the House of Lords passing the NHS Protection Amendment to the Trade Bill

2021

• Our Better Buses for Greater Manchester campaign WON!
• Better Buses for West Yorkshire won a commitment from the Mayor to “bring buses back into public control.”
• Local pressure kicked US insurance company Centene out of a London borough’s GP surgeries 

2022

• After pressuring all the local councils to pass motions supporting public control, Better Buses for South Yorkshire persuaded outgoing Mayor, Dan Jarvis, to take the first step towards bringing buses into public control.
• Better Buses for South Yorkshire won a commitment from the incoming Mayor, Oliver Coppard, to bring buses into public control within two years.
• The first regional win for our 'Rebuild our NHS' campaign, with the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICS pledging to ban private companies from their NHS board .
• By August, as a result of local campaigners taking action, ICS chairs made the pledge in 11 regions across England.
• We pushed the Labour Party to commit to a publicly owned renewable energy company - Great British Energy - with public ownership mentioned in Starmer's keynote speech.
• Local campaigners kick Centene, US insurance giant, out of an Islington GP surgery.

2023

• January - Following our Channel 4 Ain't Broke campaign the previous year, the Culture Minister formally abandoned plans to privatise Channel 4.
• The Big Issue picks We Own It as one of its '100 Changemakers for 2023' for our work fighting Channel 4 privatisation.
• May - TransPennine Express brought into public ownership after co-ordinated protests and 8000 WOI supporter letters sent to the Transport Secretary.
• Also in May - after 1,000 We Own It supporters signed an open letter to the Scottish Government, they responded and committed to end privatisation in the Scottish NHS.
• September - Greater Manchester’s buses finally came into public control, after years of private bus companies trying to stop your campaign win in the courts and the press. 
• October - Following campaigning by WOI supporters, rail commuters, disability groups, and unions, the Government is pressured into a U-turn on proposals to close 974 railway ticket offices across England.
• Also in October - Liverpool's Mayor announced a move to public control of buses after 2000 We Own It supporters took action to push through the plans.

2024

• March - West Yorkshire officially decided to bring buses into public control, the third region to do so following your successful campaigns in Liverpool and Manchester.