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Intro to Fundraising

Fundraising is a crucial role in Extinction Rebellion. Without it we cannot make the impact and progress that we need to towards achieving our three demands and building the movement to act on the climate and ecological crisis. Our fundraising team support each other to get results. We are proud of the difference we make to the movement.

Why does XR need money?

Extinction Rebellion UK spends around £1m a year on its basic activities, which include:

  • Supporting a range of volunteers with essential costs, including people who support our movement through their involvement in UK wide teams, with: resources, training, strategies, regional and national coordination, fundraising, etc.

  • Carefully planning a huge array of national and UK-wide, attention-grabbing strategies, actions and campaigns

  • Creating and safely storing of our wonderfully iconic artful resources

  • Sharing money with nations and regions, to spend as they need. Some of this will help support local groups with leaflets, posters and other support resources

  • Providing, updating and supporting our communications platforms, meeting tools and website

  • Running trainings and talks to spread the news about the climate and ecological emergency, our three demands and amplification of complementary messages of our allies and partners

  • Providing financial and budgeting processes

The more funds we have the more effective we can be in the face of the climate and biodiversity crises. Money helps us work towards achieving our three demands and building this movement of movements

Please bear in mind that Extinction Rebellion can only ask for donations which will be used to fund legal activities.

Importance of our Action Network email lists

Our network of Local and Region/Nation email lists all build one big XRUK email list. As well as using it for emails about actions, training and ways to get involved, this list is very important for fundraising.

Regular donors from our XRUK list provide a steady income for the movement and campaigns, particularly ones leading up to big actions also bring in money from one-off donations.

The more people there are on our Action Network mailing list, the more successful our future fundraising will be.

It is important for fundraising that local groups are using Action Network (rather than their own systems like Mailchimp or other systems), so that these new sign up add to the overall XRUK list. More information about Action Network is here.

Watch this video showing how to do outreach followed by a fundraising ask

What does the XRUK fundraising team do?

  • Make grant and other funding applications
  • Public fundraising using our email list and social media
  • Support national, regional and local XR groups to fundraise for themselves
  • Engage 'high net worth' individuals as supporters
  • Remain open to new ideas!

How to get involved with the XRUK fundraising team

If you have fundraising, data processing or admin experience of any kind, or fundraising is just something that you would like to help with, then please do apply for a Fundraising role

Or contact us on our Mattermost reception of by emailing fundraising@rebellion.earth

We look forward to hearing from you!

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