# Previous IOS Actions
Press coverage, videos and feedback from previous Insure Our Survival actions.
# Rugby Final - Twickenham
**Sat 14th June 2025 - 'Red Card Allianz' at the Rugby Final**
Allianz Twickenham Stadium, Whitton Rd, TW2 7BA
Around 82,0000 rugby fans arrived to watch the Premiership final. That’s eighty-two-thousand (!!!) opportunities to build pressure on the fossil insurance industry.
Press Release from XRUK :
RFU Silent on due diligence
The Rugby Football Union has failed so far to respond to questions about the due diligence it carries out when selecting suitable sponsors. Extinction Rebellion put the questions to the RFU in writing on Thursday ahead of the rugby final.
> “What due diligence do the RFU do on the impact potential sponsors’ business dealings have on English clubs, and flooding in particular?” and “Was that applied rigorously to the reported £150m Allianz deal?” At the time of this press release no reply has been received.
Outreachers on the day surveyed rugby fans and found 82% thought the RFU should ditch Allianz. Beer mats proved popular and helped amplify the message:
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# IOS Week of Action - Oct 2024
In Oct 2024 Insure Our Survival campaign's week of action targeted at the insurance industry.
The week of action was contributed to by many local groups as well as a 3-day London action.
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A full round-up of the week of action **can be viewed on the XRUK website.**
View the **[Feedback and Learning](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/link/1741#bkmrk-page-title)** from these actions.
Watch the XRUK livestream on YouTube here:
**Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday**
**[Read the demand letter](https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2024/10/14/insurers-given-14-days-to-dump-fossil-fuel-criminals/)** - issued to insurers 14 days ahead of the action.
### Press
#### Online coverage
- Extinction Rebellion target insurance giants in City of London - Socialist Worker
#### Print coverage
The Daily Telegraph, 29/10/24
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Financial Times
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The Times, 29/10/24
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The Guardian, 2/11/24
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### Promo Videos
Chris Packham has a message for you!
"This is Red Rebel leader, I'm approaching the target..."
# July 2025 Wave of Actions
**During July** - groups across the UK will target local 'dirty insurers', building the pressure for them to stop funding climate destruction.
This July, Insure Our Survival campaign are turning up the pressure on the fossil fuel insurers who are enabling climate breakdown. It’s time to push harder in order to cancel carbon bombs, stop ecocide, and confront climate injustice.
Whether you’re ready to poster your high street or plan a bold shutdown, the **[ACTIONS MENU](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/insure-our-survival/chapter/ios-action-menu)** provides something for every activist, whatever your experience or capacity.
### Actions confirmed
Actions are happening all around the UK.
Stay connected and up-to-date via the Telegram chat [registering here to get the link to it](https://actionnetwork.org/forms/insure-our-survival).
If you have an action to add to the list below and to the actions calendar and/or need to request Action Support crews, please use this form.
As well as many pop-up actions, there are some publicly announced actions listed below that you can join:
#### Digital Actions
Tips on how you can take action from your sofa, on the bus, or wherever you are, to add your voice and amplify the message Insure Our Survival now!
#### North Lakes
**Monday 7th July**
Two sessions:
12:00 - 14:00 Penrith (meet 35 Middlegate, Penrith, CA11 7PP)
15:30 - 17:00 Carlisle (meet J36 Rural Auction Centre, Crooklands near Kendal, Cumbria , LA7 7FP) Join this whatsapp chat to get connected.
#### Loughborough
**Wednesday 9th July**
Loughborough Climate Action vigil Howden, 30 Cattle Market, LE11 3DL.
Contact for more info.
#### Birmingham
**Thursday July 10th, 11am**
Victoria Square B1 1BD
Join us for street theatre and dance.
**Wear black! No speeches! Just creativity! **
Facebook event | Whatsapp channel Sign up here to volunteer as support crew.
#### Eastbourne
**Saturday 12th July, 9.45am**
Banker's Corner, (between Barclays and NatWest) Terminus Road, Eastbourne. BN21 3NE
Join the
Telegram group.
#### London
**Wednesday 16th July, midday start**
Meet 11:30 at Fen Court Garden, Hogarth Court EC3M 7AY (off Fenchurch St).
Bring your own placards or come to hold ready made banners.
#### POSTPONED - Welwyn Garden City
~~**Saturday 19th July, 10am-12pm**~~
Due to extreme rainfall being forecast, the difficult decision has been to postpone this event for the safety of the particpants.
Please keep an eye on the IOS Telegram and local channels for news of the reschedled event.
Contact for more information.
### Message from IOS Campaign:
**This July marks one official year of the Insure Our Survival campaign**, and to celebrate in style we’re calling on everyone to escalate our actions at our local dirty insurers we’ve already targeted and plan our first direct action at those we haven’t yet put on notice. If you’ve been and put our demands to them already then we offer full support in training and resources to go back and pile on more pressure.
In the second week of July, we are calling on good folk across the UK to take action against their local dirty insurers, with a heavy emphasis on potential EACOP insurers and Marsh (who are filthy EACOP’s dirty broker) for those that have a choice of targets locally. From the streets to social media, we need your voices and creativity to make sure these companies know that we will resist their support of any carbon bomb, especially EACOP. We need your help to ramp up the pressure. Whether it's physical demonstrations, creative actions, or digital disruption, every action counts. Let's send a clear message: 'Rule out insuring EACOP, and all new Oil, Gas & Coal or be held accountable!'
### Escalating Actions
If you’ve already targeted an insurer and they haven’t changed course, escalation is often what gets results. If they ignored your rally, how about a lobby occupation this time. Had a lobby occupation with no change or engagement from the target? Perhaps it’s time for a rooftop banner drop or occupation? Could your group get someone outside every morning for a week or two, talking to staff arriving about their company's involvement in the increase in local flooding and destruction of countless species worldwide? Here is why escalation works:
- **We demonstrate staying power.** When they see we’re not going away, their resistance begins to crack. Insure Our Survival thrives on this consistency, as then they know we’ll keep returning as long as they fund destruction.
- **Unpredictability changes the equation.** After repeated low-level disruption, companies start asking not “Can we ride this out?” but “What’s next and how bad will it be?”
- **Escalation = amplification.** Bolder actions attract more media, energise other activists, and raise reputational and financial risks for the target.
We’ve been building momentum for a year. We’ve seen [major wins](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/link/1613#bkmrk-this-works%21) and we need more. We don’t have twenty years. We need action now.
**Go to the [actions menu](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/insure-our-survival/chapter/ios-action-menu)** for inspiration on how to get involved.
**Join the Telegram chat** by registering here to get the link to it.
Actions are happening all around the UK.
Stay connected and up-to-date via the Telegram chat [registering here to get the link to it](https://actionnetwork.org/forms/insure-our-survival).
If you have an action to add to the list below and to the actions calendar and/or need to request Action Support crews, please use this form.
As well as many pop-up actions, there are some publicly announced actions listed below that you can join:
#### Digital Actions
Tips on how you can take action from your sofa, on the bus, or wherever you are, to add your voice and amplify the message Insure Our Survival now!