22nd October - join the #CitizenFriday co-creation crew and weekly call
Citizen Friday – a grassroots campaign replacing Black Friday with community action. This year we're making it collective: crowd-sourced, citizen-led, built together in public. Join our call Wed 22nd Oct 1-2pm GMT to help shape it and build something bigger
Calling all citizens, pirates, trouble makers - come to our weekly plotting call to help co-create, activate and amplify Citizen Friday 2025
This is the third year of Citizen Friday, a grassroots, citizen-created campaign that primarily takes place in community spaces, workshops, and the outdoors. But this year, we’re thinking bigger.
We have a dream. That Citizen Friday won’t just replace Black Friday in our lives, but that it might one day replace the consumer story itself.
And to do that, we need YOU.
This year, we’re making the campaign collective. Crowd-sourced and citizen-led. Which means shaping it together: asking questions, trying ideas, testing messages, and building it in public, as a community.
We are going to start with a call on Wednesday 22nd October 1pm-2pm GMT
What might we need?
- Posters for the streets - let’s go guerrilla
- Stitch & Hike kits and event guides
- Polls and collective tools to shape the message
- ACTionism film screenings (on Nov 28?)
- Banners, patches, and there will be sewing throughout
- Maybe even a party...
We’ll also need time, skills, energy - and yes, funding - to bring this vision to life.
What can you bring?
There are so many ways to get involved, at all levels. You might:
- Share a story
- Host a community event
- Join the debate
- Run a repair session or a local walk
- Help design or paste up posters
- Offer skills in graphics, tech, outreach, or logistics
- Or simply spread the message in your community, workplace or organisation
This isn’t just a protest against consumerism.
It’s a practice of something better.
The Plan (So Far)
Over the next 6 weeks, we’ll shape the campaign together:
- Week 1: Campaign co-creation: What’s the message? What do we need? Posters, stickers, ideas? Expect community polls, open calls, and shared design.
- Week 2: We dig into Repair: as a practical skill and political act.
- Week 3: We explore Sharing, from tool libraries to stories.
- Week 4: We dig into the power of stepping outdoors
- Week 5-6: We build momentum, create resources, and bring the campaign to life.
And then, on November 28th, we gather in our community spaces, our fields and forests, in the fresh air and shared warmth, to mark Citizen Friday - together.
