Reflections
Steps to finding the others
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!
Learning
Education and learning doesn't have to mean surrendering your power. It shouldn't be about following orders and accepting what you're given. Here, we spotlight inspiring educational initiatives that put agency back in your hands - showing you how to get involved or start your own approach to transformative learning and education in your community.
Organisations and Initiatives
Funding opportunity: Devon-based creative nature projects
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
Listen: How to Save Democracy podcast - and the art of finding the others
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.
Events
Finding the Others - ACTionism at The Big Retreat Festival
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.
Reflections
Is community a muscle we've stopped flexing?
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.
Learning
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.
Organisations and Initiatives
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!
Guides
How to find your people to start taking action together
ACTionism is the art of finding your people and taking collective action. But how exactly do you find your people? Here's how others did it. We've talked to community members and groups to collate how they did it - so you can find your people!
Reflections
How do you make space in your life to decide how to step into your agency and start ACTing?
I want to know: what's your strategy? How do you make space to act when life gets in the way?
Love Where We Live
Finding the Escape Hatch
Olivia recently returned to the core of the ACTionism community, after a short time away working on Citizens’ Assemblies, exploring fairness, politicians’ pay, and what it means to value public service, vital work. And now she's back to do something just as important: the work of reimagining belonging,
Reflections
Why we need ACTionism and Activism to end the Genocide in Gaza
Why we need ACTionism and Activism to end the Genocide in Gaza - what you can do today.
Events
ACTionism x Pol.is: Can We Build Better Conversations About Change?
There are days when the anger hits hard. Recently, there's been a lot of them. The injustice, the violence, the collapse, it can be overwhelming. And in those moments, it's easy to feel torn between wanting to scream in protest and needing to curl up and