The Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning is to lobby parliament for the restoration of the 1.5 million adult learning places lost over the past two years. The campaign has attracted supporters from an astonishingly wide range of backgrounds. In this article, Gordon Marsden, Caroline Biggins, Beth Walker, Mike Chaney, Peter Davies, Sian Moore, Deborah Annetts, Richard Bolsin, Bernard Godding, Barbara Isherwood, John Breadon, Muhammad Abdul Bari, Deb Smith, James Doeser, and Joyce Mace tell why they believe the campaign matters.