Sandra Osborne
Domestic campaigns
Sandra with the former Prime Minister

Sandra Osborne campaigning in Girvan

Sandra campaigning at Ayr racecourse

Sandra campaigning for justice for pensioners
"Is the Prime Minister aware that in my constituency..?"
In House of Commons with ex Scotland Manager, George Burley from Cumnock
Sandra and local Keir Hardie campaigner Bill Dick outside Cumnock Town Hall at the bust of Keir Hardie. Sandra has tabled an Early Day Motion to honour Keir Hardie by relocating his House of Commons bust to a more prominant location where the public would see it when visiting Parliament

Carrick Crime Prevention Panel
Sandra held 10 public meetings to fight Post Office closures
Supporting North Ayr Resource Centre's fight to retain funding
With Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy and Bob Leitch of Chamber of Commerce at local Business Summit
With MP colleagues and others supporting Temporary and Agency Workers Rights
Dumfries House
Dumfries House saved for the nation; In Cumnock with Prince Charles
2005 declaration

After declaration of Ayr Carrick and Cumnock result 2005
Veterans Badge presentation ceremony
Sandra hosting Veterans Badge presentation ceremony with Lord Lieutenant and Secretary of State for Defence
Petition for Post Office Card Account
Presenting Petition for Post Office Card Account to Minister
Cash Machine Transparency

Sandra is supporting a new campaign to protect the free cash machine network and ensure that consumers who do not want to pay charges are able to make that choice (see Press Release 28 November)
UEF Pensions

Sandra has campaigned for three years to get compensation for the UEF workers in Ayr who lost their pensions after going into administration. The Government have brought in a Pension Protection Fund to safeguard future losses and now as a result of the campaign by Trade Unions and MPs like Sandra, the government have agreed to a compensation package for the 60,000 workers, including UEF, who had already lost their pensions.
Campaigning on Breast Cancer

South Ayrshire Miners' Compensation

Sandra and George Foulkes with the Minister, Nigel Griffiths and cheque for £32m compensation to miners and their families

At Pennyvenie Open Cast Mine Dalmellington
International politics
Sandra in North Korea
In Columbia with Christian Aid
With Iraqi Women
With President Talibani of Iraq
Holocaust Day Memorial Book
Cut the Carbon March
Sandra welcomes Christian Aid's Cut the Carbon Marchers to Ayrshire
Fairtrade
Sandra supports Fairtrade campaign at every opportunity
The Beat goes on
On Saturday 8 July, at 12 noon, thousands of people took part in a world record attempt to drum home the trade justice message to the UK government.
Sandra joined Christian Aid activists in Ayr to form just one of 120 noisy, colourful events at festivals, fairs and in town centres throughout the country
India
Sandra took part in a delegation of Labour women MPs to India. The visit included discussions on various aspects of women's position in India; bilateral trade between India and the UK and the security situation relating to the Kashmir dispute with India. The group also visited a project funded by the UK Department of International Development in a slum area of West Bengal.
International Development
Sandra has worked closely with the international development campaign organisations and NGOs to promote debt relief, development support and fair trade for the world's poorest countries
Human Rights
MP held by Colombian Death Squad!
Sandra supports human rights campaigns in Colombia and other countries.
Sandra and Jim Murphy MP with Palestinian academic and human rights activist, Hanan Ashrawi
Sandra in Tehran with Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist, Shirin Obadi
At British 1st World War Graves in Gaza with Ibrahim Jerradeh, the Palestinian man who has looked after these graves since 1958.



