Ways To Find Your Place in XR
Use this map to find your Local Group
Local and national actions are advertised HERE
All our campaigns, in-person and digital, are described HERE
Volunteer roles in a regional, national or UK-wide team are advertised on the Volunteer website.
Roles listed on the Volunteer Website can be filtered by:
- Role Type (from home or in-person)
- Types of Work
- Region/Nation
- Hours per week
It’s fine to try out more than one role to experience different aspects of XR. It’s also OK to leave a role if you find you no longer have capacity, or you would prefer to move to a different role, but please give your team a little notice.
In XR, autonomy is a key factor in how we organise as a movement. You can see this in a diagram of our movement, which we call an Organism. You can also read the mandates for all the groups and teams.
If you would like advice on which role to apply for, or if you have not heard back within a week following an application, do email us at volunteer@extinctionrebellion.uk. We will do our best to help.
Group roles
From the Rebellion Academy module Working Group roles, you will have read that teams have the following Core roles in accordance with our Self-Organising System:
- External Coordinator
- Internal Coordinator
- Group admin
These and other XRUK roles can be found here - click on the + sign to read the role mandate.
The other team roles include:
Secretary / Minute-taker : this role requires reasonable keyboard skills and very good listening skills. The secretary:
- arranges meetings and take minutes
- deals with day to day running of the team
- ensures that Action Points are clearly communciated to the team
- might act as facilitator if no-one has filled that role (but it is not expected)
Facilitator : this role requires training since XR meetings run in a specific way. The facilitator ensures that:
- meetings run smoothly according to the group agreement
- every voice is heard
- the agenda is covered as well as possible
- the meeting does not run over time
Integrator : the person in this role makes sure that the team / Local Group has members to fill its roles by recruiting and onboarding new members. Find more about this role in the Recruitment & Onboarding Handbook.
Budget Holder : a good understanding of figures and banking is required, or a willingness to train. The budget holder:
- understands what budget is available to a team and what it must be spent on
- approves expense claims from receipts for goods and services
- approves VLE (Volunteer Living Expenses)