Reflections
The biggest blocker that keeps so many people from stepping into their agency as Citizens and finding the others, isn't whether we care. It's our lack of skills for being in community, and without the guidance that elders once offered, too many of us don't know where to start.
Stories of Action
If you've previously hosted an ACTionism screening, we'd love to hear from you.
Organisations and Initiatives
From three plastic tubs to the London Marathon - meet Pre-Loved Sports - the CIC using fitness as a way to support positive social change.
Organisations and Initiatives
Common Ground: a group of women in Devon are starting conversations on the street to show we have more in common than divides us
Community-hubs
Top tips on how to set up and run a repair cafe in your community.
Learning
Greener & Cleaner (stars of our last Spotlight call) are developing a comprehensive blueprint package to encourage others to set up hubs like theirs.
Community-hubs
Sparks Bristol, has one clear aim: to hand the high street back to the people actually trying to change things. The message is consistent and practical: the answers to big systemic problems often start with small, skilled, communal acts.
The art of finding your people and taking collective action
Two of Bristol's most beloved slow-fashion makers, Meret from Rethrindle who run sustainable fashion workshops and Lisa from Rebel Patch, are joining forces to open the Slow Fashion Studio — a brand-new workshop space and reclaimed fabric shop, nestled inside Sparks Bristol.
Drop Dead Generous is a UK-based social enterprise giving £500 grants to 1,000 people worldwide to carry out creative acts of kindness - a half-million-dollar experiment in whether generosity is truly contagious - and if it can bring people together to create more kindness and more action.
Discover how social cinema and community workshops transform audiences into movement builders.
From pub chats to a thriving community hub serving 30,000+ people. Parisa Wright shares lessons from Greener & Cleaner in Bromley and how you can access free support, blueprints and a new England-wide network to start your own community hub.
Want to set up or strengthen a community hub? Parisa Wright shares six years of Greener & Cleaner learnings through FREE blueprints, consultations, and a support network. Find out how to access support here.
Why real, honest dialogue needs to be part of every change or action we aim to create in the world. And why now, more than ever, is the time to reach across the divides that the media tells us exist across the UK today and start talking!
Small actions like these, show others it's worth taking pride in where they live. What small action can you take in your community today?
We love people to watch ACTionism through community or workplace screenings so that it can inspire and connect people through shared experiences and conversations. So we're setting a goal for the first half of 2026: another 100 community screenings. Interested?
The best bits of the #CitizenFuture we've spotted this week. including our spotlight, A brand new podcast. How ‘angry women’ are bringing people together on the streets of Devon. An invite to host an ACTionism screening in your community
In one of our popular spotlight calls, Emma Bearman from Playful Anywhere explored how play functions as a quiet revolutionary tool - a Trojan horse that dissolves barriers between strangers and creates space for collective imagination.
When young workers at a family furniture store in Tunstall decided to clean up their community, they sparked a movement that's proving collective action can transform a neighbourhood.
The world doesn't need more people waiting for perfection. It needs people taking steps - whatever steps they can manage. We all have to start somewhere. Most of us start when we see that someone else has already started.