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Why the External Coordinator role matters The External Coordinator (EC) is crucial for integrating the work of your team with the wider movement. By bridging your team and external circles, you ensure that your team aligns with broader strategic goals and shar...

Why the Group Admin role matters The Group Admin (GA) is vital to supporting the movement’s commitment to decentralisation, transparency, and equitable distribution of power. By documenting and maintaining up-to-date records of team roles, mandates, and member...

XRUK on Bluesky Bluesky is a fast-growing social media platform. It is providing an additional (or alternative) space for those becoming disillusioned with X/Twitter - for a multitude of reasons. Find us here: XRUK Bluesky account XRUK collated 'starter pa...

XRUK is supporting Zero Hour’s digital campaign to lobby MPs to attend the Second Reading of the Climate & Nature Bill. What is the Climate & Nature (CAN) Bill? The CAN Bill is a private members’ bill, originally proposed by Caroline Lucas MP. It sets out a co...

The three pillars of Community Assemblies which support supportive and empathetic interactions are radical inclusivity, active listening and trust. A Community Assembly differs from a debate where one person is ‘right’ and the other is ‘wrong’, or from a typic...

“I can’t change the world on my own, it’ll take at least three of us.” - Bill Mollison Below, we have listed a few working groups that may help you get a community assembly off the ground. They constitute best practice, not a minimum requirement. Your local g...

Howden Insurance have a variety of Christmas activities going on in their stalls, but we think the best for a cheeky bit of action is their Letter to Santa activity. How to get involved Print off the template letter from the Howden website. Or pop into yo...

A response to Water politics manoeuvres Oct - Nov 2024 Clive Lewis Private Member’s Bill Launched 15th October, 2024. Clive Lewis MP has posted his Private Member’s Water Bill. It’s on the Parliament website here. You’ll see it’s scheduled for its second readi...

Relevant teams: Alliance Building, Outreach and Integration Before you attempt to bring a community together in Assembly, you need to actually familiarise yourself with that community. This will help you to select an assembly question that matters to the peopl...

New volunteers are the lifeblood of every group Every group needs the energy, skills, ideas, community connections, diversity and fresh perspective new volunteers bring. Bringing new volunteers into our groups can be time-consuming and hard work and sometimes ...

To genuinely welcome everyone we must be inclusive For guidance on Inclusivity in XR, start here. More useful resources: Inclusivity-disability Resources Pack Neurodiverse and disabled rebels inclusion pages of the toolkit. You can contact Disabled Rebels...

It can be slightly overwhelming joining XR - so much to learn, so many new faces, all that XR jargon and even a new structure to work around. And this is on top of the anger, frustration or desperation we feel because we face the global catastrophe of climate ...

Useful resources to help anyone who takes on the task of welcoming and onboarding new people to a local group. Resources for new rebels: The first shelf of the Rebel Toolkit Welcome to XR Attending an online 'Intro to XR' talk or 'Get Involved' workshop. F...

We know that one of the main reasons that volunteers stay with XR is that they find a community with us. So how can we ensure that we are as welcoming to as many people, and as many different people, as possible? The Job of Welcoming It is an integrator's job ...

Access needs Find out about your new volunteer's access needs and any other ways they may need to be kept safe. These may include any disclosed disability that might affect their participation in our community (such as the use of assistive technologies to read...

You have an applicant! What next? You can download the flowchart as a pdf with 'clickable links'. Or skip to below the Visual Flowchart to view an accessible text version of the flowchart. Visual Flowchart Text version of the flowchart 1. Acknowledge Send...

Surveys were launched as a new feature from Action Network in 2024, they come under the 'action' menu, just as 'events' and 'forms' do. Guidance from Action Network on the survey feature is here. Unless you are a member of the XRUK Action Network Data Team (or...

If you've already attended an interactive session please read the other chapters and pages in the Get Involved book. During the Get Involved sessions you can ask questions and join breakout rooms to speak to reps about different ways to get more involved in XR...

Here are the results from Tuesday 15 October online Massembly. We discussed the question: "How can we take meaningful steps to Upgrade Democracy?" 447 participants voted, 43,153 votes were cast, 96.54 votes per participant on average, 137 commented, 453 commen...

Relevant teams: Your local group and ally organisations The exact framing and scope for the assembly need to be agreed upon before any promotional work can occur. The destination and legitimacy of the results of the assembly should be discussed and decided upo...