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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 provides something for every activist—whatever your experience or capacity.

Prepare for Action

Get prepared for this wave of actions by coming to the 'Prepare for Action' training on Friday 1st July at 7pm, which is general action training plus a special focus on Insure Our Survival actions.

Actions confirmed

IOS actions around the UK

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.

As well as many pop-up actions, there are some publicly announced actions listed below that you can join:

London

Mon 7th July, midday
City of London

Loughborough

Wed 9th July
Loughborough Climate Action vigil Howden, 30 Cattle Market, LE11 3DL.
Contact xrleicester@riseup.net for more info.

Birmingham

Thursday July 10th, 11am
Victoria Square B1 1BD
Join us for street theatre and dance.
Let's expose Insurance Companies that won't stop underwriting Fossil Fuel projects that are endangering all life on Earth.
Facebook event here. Whatsapp channel for participants here.
Wear black! No speeches! Just creativity!
 We are looking for all the usual support crew - sign up here to volunteer.

Welwyn Garden City

19th July, 10:00-12:00
Meet 9.45am at Banker's Corner, (between Barclays and NatWest) Terminus Road, Eastbourne. BN21 3NE
Join the public Telegram group: https://t.me/+a59BpmGkzPcyYjlk
Contact xr-eastherts@protonmail.com for more information.

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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 and we need more. We don’t have twenty years. We need action now.

Go to the actions menu for inspiration on how to get involved.
Join the Telegram chat by registering here to get the link to it.

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