Collective action works. Skip your Friday coffee and be part of it.
Re-Action Collective are running a £20,000 crowdfunder - and they're nearly there. At the time of writing, they're at £18,810. Just £1,190 to go in the next 24 hours
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Keep Outdoor Gear Alive: Support the Re-Action Collective's £20,000 Crowdfunder
The outdoors was never meant to be exclusive. A mended jacket, a borrowed tent, a resoled pair of running shoes - these things matter, and the people doing this work matter too. Re-Action has launched a £20,000 crowdfunder to back them. Please donate what you can and share the campaign
Community Hub - Sparks Bristol
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.
Slow Fashion Studio opening - Bristol
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.
How to Start a Repair Café
Top tips on how to set up and run a repair cafe in your community.
Apply for support around setting up or running a community hub where you live
Greener & Cleaner (stars of our last Spotlight call) are developing a comprehensive blueprint package to encourage others to set up hubs like theirs.
Alfie Odd Job - doing good in his community
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?
Fancy £500 to start your ACTionism journey?
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.
How social cinema and community workshops transform audiences into movement builders
Discover how social cinema and community workshops transform audiences into movement builders.
Green and Cleaner Spotlight Write-up
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.
Funded Support To Set Up Or Improve 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.
It's time to start talking: Common Ground, Good Good Neighbours and the Fete of Britain (video)
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!
Organisations and Initiatives
Want to take an ACTion today: Host an ACTionism film screening
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?
Organisations and Initiatives
Common Ground: A group of 'angry women of a certain age' is highlighting that we have more in common than divides.
Common Ground: a group of women in Devon are starting conversations on the street to show we have more in common than divides us
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ACTionism in ACTion newsletter
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
Guides
The Power of Play: Breaking Barriers and Building 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.
Stories of Action
TS Domestics: Cleaning up their community, one street at a time
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.
Stories of Action
Forget Big Gestures: Here's What Collective Action Really Looks Like in January
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.
Events
Your invitation to help build ACTionism in 2026
On 15 January, ACTionism is relaunching its Connection Calls to rebuild together. Whether you have skills, ideas, funding, or just the desire to be part of something that champions grassroots change, this is your moment to join and help shape what comes next. Join is 12.30-1.30 GMT Jan 15th
Stories of Action
Seen a story of ACTionism IRL? We want to share it
We're building ACTionism as a community, and that means we need you. Not as passive readers, but as contributors, storytellers, and collaborators. If you're doing collective action work- big or small - we want to help spread the word. Your story could be exactly what someone
Events
This Friday (30/1) Join our Live Spotlight: Parisa Wright - Greener & Cleaner
Everything starts with a single action - yours could be as easy as joining this Zoom call on Friday with Parisa Wright, founder of Greener & Cleaner.
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Happy 2026 ACTionists!
We're starting 2026 with a simple question: what if the year ahead was shaped by all of us, not just a few?
Guides
How Ordinary People Start Movements That Actually Change Systems
If you've been thinking about starting something but felt held back, this is your sign. Read this guide to starting a movement that creates systemic change when you've no idea where to start.
Spotlights
Something to watch: How Two Parents Are Transforming Party Culture: Lessons from Party Kit Network and No Crap Parties
In a recent Actionism Spotlight session, Isabelle Mack from Party Kit Network and Charlotte Mason-Kerr from No Crap Parties shared their inspiring journeys of tackling waste in children's celebrations.