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Extinction Rebellion UK spends around £1m a year on its basic activities, which include: • Supporting a range of volunteers with essential costs, including people who support our movement through their involvement in UK wide teams, with: resources, training, ...

Fundraising is a crucial role in Extinction Rebellion. Without it we cannot make the impact and progress that we need to towards achieving our three demands and building the movement to act on the climate and ecological crisis. Our fundraising team support e...

There is often ringfenced grant funding for certain activities in XR. If we do not use this grant funding it will be lost, so it is important to prioritise these funded activities whenever we can. Funding for Community Assemblies For example, through summer...

In the run up to The Big One in April 2023 some 50,000 people gave one off donations to XR raising £400,000. This was a fantastic response focussing on a specific event. Until now this has been our fundraising routine, to raise lots of money in the run up t...

It is useful having a bank account for fundraising, particularly if you want to create Chuffed fundraisers, or use card/contactless payment devices, for example. If your local group has a bank account you can bank your own funds, make payments more easily, us...

You can buy donation tins and buckets online, or make your own of course. Metal or plastic coffee or hot chocolate containers work well, with a slot in the top and some paper wrapped around and decorated. It is best to get one with a chain and small carabine...

XR uses its Action Network emailing lists to send information to people who have previously 'signed up.' We also send emails asking for donations. Email is a hugely successful way of generating funding. In the run up to The Big One people responded to these ...

All local groups, regions and nations are autonomous and will make their own decisions about where to direct the funds they raise. Here we just set out the broader situation to help you decide what to do. XR UK spends it funds on: Supporting a range of ...

Contactless/card payment devices are very helpful for fundraising, now that fewer people carry cash. People can make payments easily using their cards or their phone and the contactless/card payment devices are very easy to use. Obviously you need a bank acco...

Chuffed is a fantastic way to raise funds, as long as you have a bank account to receive the money. The main XR UK fundraising takes place through Chuffed. Should you raise money for your local group, your region/nation or for XR UK? QR code for XR UK Chuff...

Text to donate is an easy way for people to donate to XR UK using their mobile phones. XR have two Text to Donate options that can be used for by anyone for XR UK fundraising. People use the simple text facility on their phone to send a word to the number 70...

Social media is a great way to share and multiply your fundraising, particularly for local groups and specific projects. Look out for XR UK fundraising asks on social media and forward/like/share them to others.

Festivals and Artblockers can get bespoke support from the Fundraising team, please get in touch! Contact us through the Mattermost Fundraising Reception channel. Or email XXXXXXfundraising@rebellion.earth. We can help with: • Card/contactless payment devi...

XR Communities can get bespoke support from the Fundraising team, please get in touch! Contact us through the Mattermost Fundraising Reception channel. Or email XXXXXXfundraising@rebellion.earth. We can help with: • Card/contactless payment devices • Hand...

Outreach If you have an outreach interaction that ends with a “sign up” (to Action Network) then you may also feel able to ask for a donation. Here is a short video that shows you how this might work. You might want some or all of the following with you t...

Little cards (the size of a business card) with a SIGN UP QR code on one side and a DONATE QR code on the other were very useful at The Big One because: • they were easy to carry and fit into a pocket/clipboard/purse/wallet for outreachers, stewards, fundra...

Download A4 poster You can put the A4 poster into an acrylic upstand like the one pictured (on the right), or put it on the front of a homemade wooden upstand also pictured (on the left). Of course the wooden one is open to the rain but these A4 posters are ...

Starting Monday 4 September 2023 we will run fundraising workshops on Zoom for local groups, regions and nations. Further workshops will be on the first Monday of every month. Everyone is welcome. The workshops will run through the content of this Rebel Too...

If you have questions after reading these fundraising pages then you can ask for support either on Mattermost or Telegram. Mattermost – type “Fundraising UK Reception” into the bar on the top left-hand side of every screen or use this link then just ask yo...