Editing Richard Curtis (section)

==Campaigning==
[[File:Richard Curtis MFF 2016.jpg|thumb|upright|Curtis at Montclair Film Festival in 2016]]
Curtis together with Sir [[Lenny Henry]] are co-founders and co-creators of [[Comic Relief (charity)|Comic Relief]]. Curtis is also a founder of [[Make Poverty History]]. He organised the [[Live 8]] concerts with [[Bob Geldof]] to publicise poverty, particularly in Africa, and pressure [[G8]] leaders to adopt his proposals for ending it. He has written of his work in ''[[The Observer]]'' in the Global development section in 2005.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Curtis |first=Richard |date=24 April 2005 |title=Place your cross for Africa's Aids orphans _ Global development |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/apr/24/internationalaidanddevelopment.hearafrica05 |access-date=8 June 2013 |work=[[The Observer]]}}</ref>

Curtis helped spearhead the launch of the [[Robin Hood tax]] campaign in 2010. The campaign fights for a 0.05% tax levied on each bank trade ranging from shares to foreign exchange and derivatives that could generate $700bn worldwide and be spent on measures to combat domestic and international poverty as well as fight [[climate change]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mathiason |first=Nick |date=9 February 2010 |title=Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy team up in new film urging Tobin tax on bankers |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/feb/09/tobin-tax-nighy-curtis-film |access-date=16 February 2022 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>

In October 2010, a short film created by Curtis titled [[No Pressure (2010 film)|''No Pressure'']] was released by the [[10:10 campaign]] in Britain to promote [[climate change politics]]. The film depicted a series of scenes in which people were asked if they were going to participate in the 10:10 campaign, told there was "no pressure" to do so, but if they did not, they were blown up at the press of a red button.
Reaction was mixed, but the video was swiftly removed from the organisation's website.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vaughan |first=Adam |date=7 October 2010 |title=No Pressure: the fall-out from Richard Curtis's explosive climate film |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/oct/04/10-10-activism |access-date=7 October 2010 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London}}</ref>

In March 2011, Curtis apologised following a complaint by the [[British Stammering Association]] about 2011 [[Comic Relief]]'s opening skit, a parody by [[Lenny Henry]] of the 2010 film ''[[The King's Speech]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 March 2011 |title='Speech' stammer spoof under fire |url=http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/movies/2011/03/22/17709151-wenn-story.html |access-date=22 March 2011 |newspaper=[[Toronto Sun]] |archive-date=2 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302192847/http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/movies/2011/03/22/17709151-wenn-story.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He talked the producer of ''[[American Idol]]'' into doing a show wherein celebrities journeyed into Africa and experienced the level of poverty for themselves. It was called ''[[Idol Gives Back|American Idol: Idol Gives Back]]''. In 2014, Curtis publicly backed "Hacked Off" and its campaign in support of UK press self-regulation by "safeguarding the press from political interference while also giving vital protection to the vulnerable."<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 March 2014 |title=Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfonso Cuaron, Maggie Smith Back U.K. Press Regulation |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/benedict-cumberbatch-alfonso-cuaron-maggie-689289 |access-date=26 August 2014 |publisher=Hollywoodreporter.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ian Burrell |date=18 March 2014 |title=Campaign group Hacked Off urge newspaper industry to back the Royal Charter on press freedom |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/campaign-group-hacked-off-urge-newspaper-industry-to-back-the-royal-charter-on-press-freedom-9197869.html |access-date=26 August 2014 |work=[[The Independent]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hacked Off |url=http://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/4282-HackedOff-Guardian-ad-286x440-d3.png |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302093453/http://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/4282-HackedOff-Guardian-ad-286x440-d3.png |archive-date=2 March 2015 |access-date=19 March 2014}}</ref>

In August 2014, Curtis was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to ''[[The Guardian]]'' opposing [[Scottish independence]] in the run-up to September's [[2014 Scottish independence referendum|referendum on that issue]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 August 2014 |title=Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and list of signatories |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/aug/07/celebrities-open-letter-scotland-independence-full-text |access-date=26 August 2014 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

In 2020, Curtis co-founded the climate finance campaign [[Make My Money Matter]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Richard Curtis launches Make My Money Matter to promote ethical pensions |url=https://www.unbiased.co.uk/news/financial-adviser/pensions-actually-richard-curtis-launches-drive-for-ethical-fund-investment |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Unbiased}}</ref> According to Campaign Director David Hayman the campaign "is all about helping people understand the impact of their money and how helping them think that if they are saving for retirement, what kind of retirement is their money saving for? What kind of world is it building?"<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 February 2023 |title=Make My Money Matter – The pressure increases on banks |url=https://thefinanser.com/2023/02/make-my-money-matter-the-pressure-increases-on-banks/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=The Finanser}}</ref>

In 2021, he joined the [[Rewriting Extinction]] campaign to fight the climate and biodiversity crisis through comics. He wrote a comic story in collaboration with [[War and Peas]] named "Woke". It was printed in the book ''The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World''<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World |publisher=[[DK (publisher)|DK]] |year=2021 |isbn=978-0241513514}}</ref> which was released on 28 October 2021 by [[DK (publisher)|DK]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Make YOUR Money Matter: Richard Curtis, War and Peas & friends |url=https://rewritingextinction.com/stories/make-your-money-matter-with-richard-curtis-war-peas-and-friends/ |access-date=2023-08-12 |website=Rewriting Extinction}}</ref>