A little bit of funding goes a long way: the APPG for Future Generations

Abstract

This chapter, written in August 2020, tells the story of the founding of the All-Party Parlia- mentary Group for Future Generations in the UK and details its achievements. The APPG Future Generations was founded by two Cambridge students, Tildy Stokes and Natalie Jones, in Autumn 2017. With the work of roughly one year of a full-time staff equivalent, the APPG supported the creation of Lord Bird’s Well-being of Future Generations Bill, launched an ongoing Inquiry on Longtermism in Policymaking, pushed the UK Parlia- ment to set up a Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Management and swelled membership to seventy-five UK parliamentarians. The APPG members list continues to grow, and it aims to have more than 10% of all parliamentarians in the APPG in 2021. A little bit of funding goes a long way: the APPG has ambitious plans to continue pushing for a world where decision-makers at all levels of government fairly consider the interests of all future generations and can effectively plan for the long term.