Events
We're looking for ACTionists around the country who want to help spread the idea of finding others and taking action together, whether that's across a region, a field of expertise, or both. We're a small group of enthusiastic dreamers who think we're
Guides
This Collective Care Workbook is a fantastic guide to support anyone stepping into their agency to act, to strengthen and build collective care in their work and projects
Reflections
Making it simpler to step into your agency as a Citizen and find the others. Don't overthink it - you don't need a plan, funding or even a huge group of people - just start small!
Food
Screw This, Let's Try Something Else podcast explores how a farm in Shropshire went from facing closure to being owned by 8000 locals overnight - explore how they did it
Organisations and Initiatives
The NatureSave Trust is inviting applications for its Creative Action for Nature (Devon) scheme, open to charities, community groups, and organisations that believe that art, storytelling, and hands-on creative activity can be a powerful force for environmental engagement.
Learning
How to Save Democracy frames democracy not as something we have, but as something we do. Which is why we think this podcast is an essential companion to everything ACTionism and finding the others.
If you'd like to suggest an individual, organisation, or idea for a future spotlight call, please let us know, and we'll consider adding them.
The art of finding your people and taking collective action
Can the practice of finding the others and acting together help restore trust and begin to heal divisions ?
We're seeing that 'Finding the others' isn't as simple as it sounds, so we're experimenting with ways to make this simpler for people, first up by taking some ACTionism ripples to The Big Retreat Festival in South Wales.
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.
From three plastic tubs to the London Marathon - meet Pre-Loved Sports - the CIC using fitness as a way to support positive social change.
If you've previously hosted an ACTionism screening, we'd love to hear from you.
Common Ground: a group of women in Devon are starting conversations on the street to show we have more in common than divides us
Top tips on how to set up and run a repair cafe in your community.
Greener & Cleaner (stars of our last Spotlight call) are developing a comprehensive blueprint package to encourage others to set up hubs like theirs.
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.
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.