Thank you to everyone for your support for Action Mesothelioma Day 2025 in Manchester! There was some of press coverage here of our campaign to get higher risk asbestos out of Greater Manchester schools. Thank you to Beth Taylor of the Mesothelioma UK Research Centre, who spoke on her research into asbestos in schools and hospitals....
In 2025, the Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group (GMAVSG) obtained Freedom of Information data from councils in Greater Manchester on asbestos in schools. Our 2025 report suggests that asbestos is present in around 80.2% (304 out of 379) of local authority maintained schools in Greater Manchester. In 2013, figures obtained by the Manchester Evening News found...
Details for the upcoming meetings of our two support groups can be found here. GMAVSG runs two support groups. Our Families group is for people who have lost a loved one to asbestos disease. Our Living Well group is for people with mesothelioma. ...
A huge thank you to everyone who supported our Action Mesothelioma Day event on Friday 5th July. Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer which can be caused by very low exposures to asbestos. Despite the 1999 asbestos ban, 2,257 people died of mesothelioma in 2022. We gathered today to remember all those who have died from...
Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer. It can be caused by very low exposures to asbestos dust. Despite the import & manufacture of asbestos being banned in 1999, asbestos is still present in many of our homes, workplaces, schools and hospitals. As this asbestos materials inevitably deteriorates, a new generation is being put at risk of...
On 14th March 2024, asbestos victims and anti-asbestos campaigners gathered in Manchester and Rochdale to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of Nellie Kershaw's death. Nellie was a Rochdale mill worker, who died of asbestosis on 14th March 1924. Nellie's death is when this country should have stepped in to tightly regulate the asbestos industry, to...
In 2023, we helped 220 people in Greater Manchester who were newly diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease. 114 had the terminal asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma. Many of these people were exposed to asbestos in the 50s, 60s and 70s through a product called Asbestolux. The manufacturers of Asbestolux, Cape, are still trading, though they ceased manufacturing Asbestolux...
The Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK took the Cape Must Pay! campaign to Labour Party Conference in Liverpool on Sunday 8th October 2023. Labour Party figures, including Stephen Timms MP and Imran Hussain MP, showed their support for the campaign at a fringe event on asbestos. The Forum is asking Altrad, the owners of...
A huge thanks to Bridget Collier of Field Fisher for raising £261 for GMAVSG. Bridget cycled the 100 mile off-road Trans-Cambrian way in 2023. Full report below. Bridgets-Trans-Cambrian-Way-Mountain-Biking-Adventure-112130251_2Download ...