Email Accounts and Email Lists

There are two types of email to think about...

Email Accounts

An email account for people to have two-way conversations with you. This is the equivalent of your personal email account, but for your group instead. E.g. groupname@extinctionrebellion.uk.

Find out how to get an @extinctionrebellion.uk email account here.

Email Lists

An email list is where supporters can sign up and receive updates from you. This is one-way communication.

This is probably the most reliable way to share news with people who want to hear from you.

Your emails need to be "on message", because there will always be interested members of the public on your list - and maybe a few journalists too.

But emails are more useful for internal comms: e.g. telling people what's going on, or newsletter style roundups of everything that's happened recently.

XR uses a system called "Action Network" to store your list of email subscribers and send mass emails to them. It is funded centrally and available to all local groups, and organises groups by Region/Nation. While there's more to learn than a system like MailChimp, the benefits to you, your subscribers, and the rest of the movement are HUGE.

Learn more about using Action Network here: Action Network for XR, and signup to training with this form.