Citizen Friday

Be More Human, One Friday at a time.
Share, Repair, Get some fresh air

#CitizenFriday is a weekly invitation to citizen, not as a status on a passport, but as something you do: sharing, repairing and getting some fresh air with others.

Because with so many of us feeling divided, disconnected, lonely and anxious, we’ve never needed each other more, and being human together is a muscle that grows stronger the more we use it.

#CitizenFriday Be more human, one Friday at a time.

Maybe you've felt it. A quiet sense of disconnect. A feeling that something isn't quite right about how we're living.

We've been told a story that puts competition over connection, consumption over community and scrolling over socialising.

But there's a different story. One with community at its heart.

Being human together is a muscle. Many of us have let it wither. It grows stronger the more we use it.

6So every Friday, we invite you to do something small with others. Share. Repair. Get some fresh air.

It starts on Friday 27 November. Then keeps going, every Friday after.

Find the others. Do something together. Find or host a gathering.

The invitation

So, this is your invitation to join #CitizenFriday: a chance to be human with other humans. Ideally outside, possibly in nature, doing something that brings you joy.

When: 27th November 2026 (and every Friday after!)

The global celebration is taking place on November 27th, the day much of the world knows as Black Friday; we're inviting everyone who sees things differently to join in, in fields, in homes, around tables, in workshops, on walks, or online, wherever you are. But this isn't a one-time marketing campaign - this is about adopting a small ritual that helps us be more human, one Friday at a time - so it happens every Friday ( or whenever you can fit it in!)

• Share instead of scrolling. Share a tool, a skill, an hour, a lift, a meal, some knowledge, some art, some time. Whatever you have.
• Repair something. A jumper. A bike. A friendship. A patch of soil. A broken thing. Something that deserves another chance.
• Get outside instead of getting a parcel. Even if it’s just ten minutes, a walk around the block, a patch of green or a good nosy at the sky.

The point isn’t to do it perfectly. The point is to do something together.

Find the others. Even better, find people you know. Even better still, find people you don’t. Talk to one another. Be with each other. This is our humanity. This is our power. 

Make something. Mend something. Share something. Go outside. Be more human. No rules on how, or minimum effort required. Some Fridays it's a proper gathering.

Most Fridays it's small, and honestly, that's more than enough. Because we know the others are doing the same thing, somewhere, right now. That's how we find the øthers. That's how we see one an øther

And then maybe do it again,

Find a gathering on 27th November

People have already added some really creative events to our map: Stitch hikes, print workshops, school bulb planting, wildlife walks, shared meals, communal naps (yes, really), and whatever else people have dreamt up. Find something near you, or host your own (see below)

The Citizen Friday Map - Scroll to find something near you. Click a pin for the details and how to say hello to the host.

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Save a chair for the stranger. Actually, scrap that; go and invite them.

No gathering near you yet? That's not a reason to sit this one out.

Host one - it only takes two to citizen

You don't need to be a particular type of person to host a gathering. You don't need experience, a budget, a plan, or anyone's permission.

Fancy being a local host for 27th November? Add yourself to the map. We'll list your name, roughly where you are, and how people can find you.

Sign up to host a gathering - Here

If you're stuck for ideas: repair something, share something, get outside. That's the whole recipe. Everything else is up to you.

Want more deatils on why it matters?

Black Friday works because millions of people do exactly the same small thing on exactly the same day, spending money they don't really have on stuff they don't always need. No single purchase moves the needle. It's the pattern, repeated at scale, that shifts billions of pounds and decides what gets made, shipped, and binned.

Citizen Friday runs on the same thinking, pointed the other way. One person mending a jacket on 27th November won't shake the world. Thousands of people doing it, on the same day, starts to look like something else entirely.

"Billions of micro decisions, alongside some pretty big decisions - like basing an economy around the sole measure of GDP - have got us to this point. It will take billions of smaller decisions, which may encourage some bigger ones, before we start to head in a different direction. What that place is doesn't matter right now. What really matters is that we start the journey." Gavin Fernie-Jones

Why every week after

The original Citizen Friday started as our answer to Black Friday.

We ran it once, the first year, then realised once wasn't nearly enough. A single day makes a nice point. A weekly ritual quietly changes you, without you ever really clocking it's happening. So it carries on, every Friday, long after the big day's come and gone.

The magazine

Come the end of October, we're putting out a full issue of our magazine on Citizen Friday. Where it came from, stories from people who've been doing it for years and what it's changed for them, and a stack of ideas for gatherings you could run yourself.