Keep Sunday Special is a British campaign group set up in 1985 by Michael Schluter[1] to oppose plans to introduce Sunday trading in England and Wales (there are different arrangements in Scotland and Northern Ireland).
The Keep Sunday Special campaign was set up and is run as a conventional secular civil society organisation with support from trade unions, churches, political parties, private businesses, and members of all faiths and of none.
Keep Sunday Special was founded on the idea that such moves by the government would have a damaging effect on families, communities and local economies.
[2] On 6 July 2006, the then Trade and Industry Secretary, Alistair Darling, confirmed that, having considered all the evidence from the review, the Government concluded there should be no change to the Sunday trading laws.
[3] The news was welcomed by trade unions and small shops who were afraid large stores would undercut their prices and were opposed to any change in the law.