Lessons from Eurovision: The Disconnect of Corporate Sponsorship

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Recent high-profile events such as Eurovision, the Chelsea Flower Show and the FIFA World Cup highlight the jarring disconnect between the intrinsic values – like connection and community – promoted by cultural events and the harmful realities of capitalist consumerism being promoted to us through sponsorship. 

But the wave of harmful sponsorships is prompting a backlash. With fossil fuels are having their ‘tobacco moment’, it’s time for popular cultural events to drop polluting sponsors. Read on to find out more and about how you can take action today….Continue reading Lessons from Eurovision: The Disconnect of Corporate Sponsorship

2026 local elections: Will your candidates sign the Adfree Cities Pledge?

With local elections happening across the UK on 7 May 2026, we’re looking for motivated volunteers to secure pledges from candidates to restrict harmful advertising if elected. As an Election Champion, you will be supported by the Adfree Cities team to contact local candidates where you live and ask them to sign the Adfree Cities…Continue reading 2026 local elections: Will your candidates sign the Adfree Cities Pledge?

Portsmouth Council to restrict adverts for fossil fuels, petrol-diesel cars and single use plastics 

Robbie Gillett

Press release, 13th February 2026, contact Robbie Gillett +447934 591 267 robbie [at] adfreecities.org.uk  Portsmouth City Council has become the latest local authority to restrict advertising for fossil fuel companies, petrol and diesel cars, junk food and single-use plastics in a move to bolster public health and protect the environment. In a cabinet meeting on…Continue reading Portsmouth Council to restrict adverts for fossil fuels, petrol-diesel cars and single use plastics 

Cardiff Council bans adverts for fossil powered vehicles

Robbie Gillett

PRESS RELEASE: Public health campaigners have welcomed moves by Cardiff Council in Wales (UK) to restrict adverts for unhealthy, polluting and harmful products – but called for advertising by fossil fuel companies to also be restricted. Under the revised policy agreed by Cardiff Council’s cabinet on 18 September 2025, “adverts relating to violence, payday loans,…Continue reading Cardiff Council bans adverts for fossil powered vehicles

Bristol event: When fossil capitalism met surveillance advertising 

Robbie Gillett

“We have yet to invent the politics and new forms of collaborative action—this century’s equivalent of the social movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries that aimed to tether raw capitalism to society—that effectively assert the people’s right to a human future. And while the work of these inventions awaits us, this mobilization and…Continue reading Bristol event: When fossil capitalism met surveillance advertising 

Cardiff council restrict harmful ads

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For the most recent update on Cardiff Council’s policy, see this September 2025 blog. Since our last win back in January 2024, Adblock Cardiff have remained busy campaigningagainst public advertising in Cardiff, with some notable successes! After positive discussions with Cardiff Council late last year, we submitted a set of recommendations for how they might…Continue reading Cardiff council restrict harmful ads