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Volunteers are what keeps XRUK moving! We need everyone, so we're sure everyone will be able to find a role to suit them! Roles are available that need a range of skills, personality types, and time commitments. Most roles with XRUK are online, but Region and ...

Organising can cost a lot! Extinction Rebellion relies on people like you to keep up the fight and our hope is that you choose to become involved with XR in whatever way you can. As you can imagine, trying to save the planet is pretty costly. Fossil fuel compa...

You can find loads more information from XRUK's Citizen's Assembly Working Group (CAWG) on the XRUK Website. Democracy Next: Checkout their Assembling an Assembly Guide for a really good explanation of how an assembly works KNOCA - Knowledge Network on Clima...

These standards are from Citizens' Assemblies - a guide to democracy that works by Marcin Gerwin 1. Random selection of participants All members of a citizens’ assembly are selected by lot. Ideally, every member of the population eligible to take part in a ci...

Watch This Space! Meantime keep in touch with your Gardener, if you have one in your region or nation, they will be the first to hear of any new funding support for your assemblies! We recommend that local groups wanting to run a community assembly check out ...

Practical Tips for disabled protestors Liberty has produced this helpful guide This includes sections on: Preparing to attend a protest What are my access needs? What if I'm kettled and I'm disabled? How to complain about the police How to organise a more ac...

Here are some design ideas for newspapers for an action, we printed them off and glued them to large folded white card to look like a broadsheet. Examples from the Dirty Water Campaign Note these images have been generated from the PDF files and reduced in q...

Community Assembly Flyer Download a hi-res version of this flyer for printing. With text and without text Sun, Sea, Sand and Sewage Flyer Download a hi-res version of this flyer for printing. (also available as a postcard from the same link!) Front: Ba...

Join the Rebel Ringing Team Rebel Ringer volunteers made thousands of calls in the lead up to The Big One in 2023 alone. This team helped reconnect activists, some of whom had not been active for a while, to the information and resources they needed to get the...

Where possible our Legal Support team will deliver a Know Your Rights training either in person or via zoom. However as this is not always possible, we have collated key information within the guide below https://informeddissent.info/knowyourrights If you woul...

Extinction Rebellion UK, BoycottWaterBills.com and the Dirty Water campaign have teamed up to support the UK-wide wastewater bill boycott. Find out below how to do this quickly and with as little risk as possible – they can never cut off your water supply. Y...

Make your own theatre production with puppets or the children as actors. This could involve climate ‘villains’ and some interactive elements where the audience have to make choices to influence the play. The scale of this is up to you - this could be something...

Grab some colourful chalks and draw images or write messages about the climate crisis. This is a great way to get children involved on the street- as them to draw the things they love the most about our planet. Their parents may want to get involved too, but w...

A die-in is a peaceful, non-violent protest wherein participants lie on the ground for a specified amount of time: a solemn act that symbolises the kind of future we face without government action on the climate crisis. This can be spicy or not depending on th...

Discobedience is a flash mob action that can be done in a public place for maximum impact. “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees is commonly used, but it is up to you what song you choose. Instruction Video

Canary costumes have been used as attention grabbing props in lots of protests, although they are obviously the most directly linked to actions targeting coal mining. Ways to make the action more attention grabbing include: Play canary song through a PA syst...

This action is a clever play on plaques that show where famous people have lived. A similar design could be made out of cardboard and attached featuring the target of a local campaign. This is unlikely to result in arrest if discreet and made with removeable ...

Origami can be used to great effect to send messages to people in positions of power. This protest was outside The Home Office and was in support of migrant justice and climate refugees. A template was created and each boat contained a letter for Suella Brave...

This action was designed in Response to Keir Starmers negative outburst “I hate tree huggers!” Turn up at location/march/action with a real or metaphorical representation of a tree. Make a cardboard cut out of a tree to hug, carry a real tree branch/knitted t...

Raising the alarm on climate emergency (could be expanded for a March/protest or next rebellion) Rebels gather outside at specific time and location dressed in nightware , pyjamas, nighties, dressing gowns, night caps, etc carrying alarm clocks. Carry plac...