On May 22, 2017, AnyBody activists Louisa Harvey, Jo Harrison and Roanna Mitchell led a workshop, “Your Body is Not the Problem” at the University of Kent, which explored the relationship between body image/body identity, politics, and everyday life.

AnyBody activists, Roanna Mitchell, Louisa Harvey, Holli Rubin and Jo Harrison facilitated a discussion event as part of the WoW Festival at the Southbank Centre in London, talking about the pitfalls and joys of body activism, and encouraging people to think about ways of making change in 2017. 200 people attended the event.

AnyBody delivered 2 workshops for Leeds Beckett University Body Image Awareness Week, led by Holli Rubin, Dinah Gibbons and Lily Edlin. The AnyBody "Occupy Your Body" workshops explore women’s relationship with our bodies in the context of media, capitalism, food and family.

On November 5, 2016 as part of WOW Bradford, Victoria Chetley, member of AnyBody/Endangered Bodies UK, was on the I Am Perfect As Me Panel which took place at Bradford Cathedral.

On February 25, 2016 Victoria Chetley, AnyBody/Endangered Bodies UK member, ran an Occupy Your Body workshop for students at Leeds Beckett University as part of their Body Image and Eating Disorders Awareness week.

On April 18, 2015 Jo Harrison, AnyBody/Endangered Bodies UK member, participated in a panel discussion about body image at the Woman Up Festival in Brighton.

On March 10, 2015, Facebook responded to our international petition by removing the "I feel fat" emoticon!

On February 25, 2015 AnyBody UK along with the seven other Endangered Bodies' chapters launched an international petition asking Facebook to remove its body-shaming emoticons, "I feel fat" and "I feel ugly". Vicky Chetley and Charlotte King, AnyBody UK members, were the spokespeople and petition starters representing AnyBody/Endangered Bodies UK.

On December 4, 2014, AnyBody UK hosted a Shape Your Culture workshop and panel event at The Old Courthouse in Brighton. Speakers included Caroline Lucas MP, artist Sarah Maple, Angela Towers (No More Page 3), Nimko Ali (Anti-FGM Activist) and Laura Dodsworth (Bare Reality Project).

On December 3, 2014, AnyBody UK and the Centre for Appearance Research release "Costing the Invisible: A review of the evidence examining the links between body image, aspirations, education and workplace confidence". The report was commissioned and funded by the British Government Equalities Office.

In reaction to discovering Facebook's emoticons, "I feel fat" and "I feel ugly", AnyBody hosts a Twitter party not only to call out the body-shaming emojis, but to open up a discussion about the demonisation of fat.

AnyBody UK's Artistic Director, Roanna Mitchell was invited to speak at the TEDx Warwick Salon on Identity, where she delivered her powerful talk, "On Body Hatred and Why Magic Wands Don't Work".

Susie Orbach, convenor of AnyBody UK, wins the Body Confidence Campaigner award at Body Confidence Awards at House of Commons. Holli Rubin, AnyBody member (pictured), accepts the award on Susie's behalf. 

Susie Orbach chairs UK government seminar on violence, body image, homophobia and bullying. In other words, all form of violence against women.

AnyBody members, Alisa Berry-Ryan, Jo Harrison and Roanna Mitchell deliver an "Occupy your Body" workshop at The Spark in London, which explored women's relationship with their bodies in the context of media, capitalism, food and family.

AnyBody UK members Susie Orbach and Holli Rubin author a report commissioned by the UK Government Equalities Office on the impact of body image during and after pregnancy called "Two for the Price of One." Both the Royal College of Midwives and The National Childhood Trust have endorsed the report, and various media outlets such as The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Mirror, and The London Evening Standard have covered its release. Read more here.

On the 17th of May, AnyBody UK's tour of workshops continues with a session at Bristol's Festival of Ideas. 

On the 9th of March 2014 as part of the Women of the World festival, AnyBody UK hold a workshop in the Clore Ballroom of the Southbank Centre in London with over 200 participants. The topic: 'The Personal is still political: Will you occupy your body?'

The AnyBodyUK social media team rallied support on Twitter and successfully persuaded Sainsbury's to stop selling a "You Look Thin" birthday card.

In reaction to the abuse World Champion and Olympic medalist Beth Tweddle received about her appearance during a live Q&A on SkyNews, AnyBody UK created the hashtag #respectsportswomen to show support and solidarity for female athletes everywhere. Within 24 hours of launching #respectsportswomen, GirlGuiding UK, the YWCA Scotland, Miss Representation, The Clare Balding Show, actress and comedian Roseanne Barr and the No More Page Three campaign among others publicly showed their support by sharing the hashtag. The campaign remains ongoing on Twitter and Facebook. Read more at our blog.

Susie Orbach and Holli Rubin met with the Right Honourable Jo Swinson to explore creating a plan to train midwives and health visitors on how to address body image issues in new mothers.

The AnyBody UK team ran a workshop at the Southbank Centre’s Women of the World Festival for International Women’s day. The workshop was titled ‘She Said What!? Women’s Bodies Shaped By Words’ and invited participants to discuss and challenge the damaging ways in which we talk about our own and each others’ bodies.

The Shape Your Culture project, run by EB London, ran a market stall at the Southbank Centre’s World of Women Festival for International Women’s day.

In January 2013, Endangered Bodies London contributed to the evidence gathered as part of a review of the Regulation of Cosmetic Interventions.

On July 23, 2012, Stephanie Heart, the principal designer for the AnyBody/UK Endangered Bodies team, received the Rising Star Award at the House of Lords.

ROSA, the UK Fund for Women and Girls, awards AnyBody/UK Endangered Bodies a substantial grant in order to deliver the Shape Your Culture project to girls and young women that will fire them up to take charge of their personal bodies and to become advocates for transforming visual culture to represent their desires, their aspirations and their diverse beauties and talents.

On April 19, 2012, members of the AnyBody team participate as judges in the UK's first annual Body Confidence Awards at the House of Commons, alongside representatives from B-eat, the Centre for Appearance Research, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk, Mumsnet, the Central YMCA and MP Jo Swinson.

During WORDfest Crawley, as part of the community events programme, AnyBody led a Body Confidence workshop with a group of 6th Form Psychology students at Thomas Bennett Community College, who were really thoughtful, engaged and brave. Discussing how we feel about our bodies can be difficult as most people, girls especially are under a great deal of pressure to conform and obsess over their looks constantly. We are happy to say that although everyone had their hang-ups, the discussions and opinions of a such a well-informed group of young people was heartening.

On February 29, 2012 Susie Orbach, convenor of EB London/AnyBody, delivered a chilling speech during the UN Commission on the Status of Women at the event Body Image in the Media: Using Education to Challenge Stereotypes in New York City.

On January 16, 2012 the EB London team held a Ditching Dieting protest outside of Parliament and participated in the All Party Parliamentary Group Body Image Inquiry into the diet and cosmetic industries. EB members provided testimony to the Parliamentary Committee: Susie Orbach presented at the Diet and Cosmetic Industries hearings, and Sue Thomason presented at the Magazine hearing. Podcasts can be found shortly at the Campaign for Body Confidence.

Launch of the Ditching Dieting campaign at a SpeakOut during the 2012 UK Feminista conference. More photos here.

UK Endangered Bodies Summit was an international summit that launched in March 2011 in major cities throughout the world. The aim is to save future generations of girls from the misery that turns women against their own bodies. The challenge? To make people understand how and why this is an emergency, to show them how they can do something about it, and to inspire them to embrace change.

At the London Summit, individuals and groups from the UK and Ireland were joined by initiatives throughout Europe and abroad to showcase the work they are already doing with and about young women – from projects in schools, colleges and communities to web-based groups and campaigning organisations. Performance, videos and artwork framed the day and underlined the urgent message of this summit. View videos and listen to podcasts from the day.

Billboard campagin to launch Endangered Species International Summit

AnyBody launches the Endangered Species movement in the UK with a billboard campaign in collaboration with DIVA magazine, Red C Agency and Clear Channel International. The purpose of the billboard campaign was to communicate the Endangered Species’ message: save future generations of women and girls from hating their own bodies.

2010 Girl Guides Report

Girl Guides in the UK survey over 1200 girls between the ages of 7 and 21, and discover just how unhappy and dissatisfied they are with and in their bodies.

Real Women: The Body Image Debate 

AnyBody joins forces with the Campaign for Body Confidence. On International Women's Day 2010, Susie Orbach, leading academics, politicians and members of the media and fashion industries participated in a panel discussion in the Houses of Parliament, debating the way forward to combat body image pressure on women and girls imposed by idealised images in the modern media.

After bestsellers such as Fat is a Feminist Issue and On Eating, Susie Orbach releases her eleventh book, Bodies.

Susie Orbach presents at the Vienna Body Image Summit as a keynote speaker.

Exploiting Women: Help Us Create a Case Against Weight Watchers 

One of AnyBody’s goals is to bring a case against Weight Watchers as one example of where the diet industry knowingly exploits the aesthetic ideal of slenderness. It has plenty of evidence that dieting does not help people maintain weight loss.

The Model Health Inquiry interim report put pressure on the British Fashion Council to set industry standards on behalf of models but not enough is done. AnyBody’s petition calling for body diversity on the catwalks of London Fashion Week continues.

Check out a video of our flash protest asking London Fashion Week to get realistic about women's bodies.

We kick off our 'MAKE BODY HATRED SO LAST SEASON' fashion campaign and our Model Size Diversity campaign to get more variety of model sizes on to catwalks.

Petition to Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London

AnyBody reached out to to Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, following his statement that he will withdraw London Fashion Week funding if they continue to use underweight models. We suggested an alternative positive initiative for the funding and local fashion designers. 

AnyBody's redesigned website gives women a voice

The updated AnyBody website creates a space for comment and connection to challenge the dominant visual culture.

Fat is an Advertising Issue 

Susie Orbach is invited to work with Dove and helped change an advertising campaign into a mission: the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. 

Susie Orbach gave evidence to the Parliamentary Committee on Obesity and participated in the Vienna City Government Body Image Summit. The AnyBody group is officially formed with Susie Orbach as convenor. 

Body image campaign group forms: AnyBody is born

Susie published On Eating and convenes a group to campaign for body diversity, which became AnyBody. The first actions were to produce a report “Costing the Invisible” mapping the socio-economical impact of the troubled body and set up a website to be an information resource.

British Government Body Image Summit, London

Susie Orbach is a key participant in this UK summit, which targeted the editors, advertisers, and affiliates of the fashion industry to take responsibility for the rising rates of anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders. Other participants include Liz Jones, editor of the British Marie Claire and the Minister for Women, Tessa Jowell. The result was a pledge for self-regulation, which left much more work to be done.