Freedom to Care was now beginning to attract publicity in the press and on TV and radio. Appearances included World in Action, Horizon, Public Eye, The Money Programme. It obtained a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust for the period 1994-96. Allan Levy QC and John Hendy QC became patrons of Freedom to Care in 1994, and Austin Mitchell MP became a patron of FTC's ethics in financial services network in 1997. From 1997 FTC was organised into a number of occupational networks.
Plans are afoot for a teachers' network, and others.
As a result of FTC's report on the matter Colonial was criticized in the media and brought before the regulatory body. FTC has been asked to consult with the new government on a new regulatory structure for financial services. In 1997 FTC published the evidence of a community doctor that children downwind of a power station in Wales were suffering from asthma as a result of the station's pollution. Largely as a result of FTC's campaign the station withdrew its application to burn a Venezuelan bitumen called Orimulsion which would have caused more pollution and more disease. Freedom to Care has continued to keep pressure on regulatory bodies which are failing to do their job of maintaining the accountability of large organizations.