Get involved with Great Big Green Week 2025 

Great Big Green Week is the perfect opportunity to connect with your local community on the campaigns you're already working on. Led by the Climate Coalition, there'll be hundreds of events taking place across the country between the 7 and 15 June. Want some inspiration? Take a look at the list of events taking place and join in with others or organise your own event.  

If you're already working on a campaign, this guide shows you how you can use Great Big Green Week to help promote it.

Swap together for Great Big Green Week

We're swapping....

• Aspirational climate goals for fair and just climate plans with our Big Climate Plan campaign.  
• Corporate greed for thriving forests and Indigenous rights though our Planet Over Profit campaign.  
• Climate polluters for climate heroes with our rights and justice campaigning.

Below are some ideas for how to take action on Friends of the Earth's main campaigns during Great Big Green Week.

Swap climate polluters for community heroes

Here at Friends of the Earth we’re working to swap climate polluters for climate heroes. Migrants and refugees for example, who make a huge difference to our society and are intrinsic to public services like the NHS.  

Profit takers like climate polluters on the other hand create climate wrecking emissions that damage people and planet.  

 This year, Great Big Green Week sits alongside Refugee Week. Why not take the opportunity to remind others that we need to be focussing on those who cause real harm, and celebrate those who enrich our communities. 

What can I do?  

Why not put together an event during Great Big Green Week that also connects with Refugee week which reminds people who is responsible for real harm, and celebrate those who are scapegoated?  

Need inspiration? Over the past few years, local action groups have taken part and organised various activities, including:  

• Picnics with community members and asylum seekers.  
• Public discussions and stalls at community events.  
• Vigils, library displays, community gardening and craft sessions.  
• Working with a local Stand Up To Racism group to involve the public with Refugee Week.  
• Exploring volunteering opportunities for refugees.  
• Helping promote Friends of the Earth's actions opposing the far-right and holding those who do harm to account.  

Swap corporate greed for thriving forests and Indigenous rights

UK companies profit from global supply chains that destroy precious forests worldwide, with devastating consequences for wildlife, climate, and communities. Friends of the Earth's Planet over Profit campaign connects these environmental harms to human rights abuses, highlighting how the UK government is failing to regulate corporate behaviour.

What can I do?  

Bring the Planet over Profit campaign into Great Big Green week by organising a community event in your local area.

Across the summer months, local action groups will be bringing the Planet over Profit campaign to local communities. The aim is to build a list of as many people and local organisations as possible who support the campaign.

We have loads of creative resources to help you make a big impact. Find out how you can take action this summer.

Swap climate promises for a bold and fair climate plan

You can use Great Big Green Week to build support for the Big Climate Plan campaign.

The government is legally obliged to write a new climate plan by autumn 2025. But there's a real risk this plan will fail to deliver the bold action urgently needed to protect both planet and people. Over the next few months, as the government prepares to publish a draft climate plan, we’ll be ramping up our efforts to make sure the government delivers a climate plan that slashes emissions and benefits people.

What can I do?

Use the Big Green Week to recruit more people into your group ahead of the climate lobby “Act Now, Change Forever” taking place on 9 July.  

 If you’re running a stall, joining an activity or taking a group photo for social media during Great Big Green Week, you can use our community message board to gather stories from your community and bring them to the lobby.  If you’re contacting your MP, use our template email to invite them to the lobby. 

Whichever campaign you decide to focus on, make sure you have ordered in enough resources in time. 

Tips for a successful Big Green Week event

• Make use of the Climate Coalition’s resources for Great Big Green Week.  
• Have a look through Friends of the Earth's local action group resources for ideas for organising an event, running a stall or plan an action.
• Think about who you might to work with through some community mapping.  
• Maximise your in-person activity by sharing your events and activities on social media. Use our social media guides for tips and hints. The hashtags for Great Big Green Week is #letswaptogetherforgood
• Don’t forget to add your event to the Great Big Green Week map of activity.

What have groups done previously?

• Pontypridd Friends of the Earth hosted drinks and a social using Great Big Green Week to attract more people to their group and local campaigns.
• Ruthink Friends of the Earth hosted a film night.
• Croydon Climate Action ran a photo competition.
• Hull Friends of the Earth organised a nature walk and bike ride.
• Watford Friends of the Earth partnered with The South West Herts week of activities which ranged from wildlife walks, craft events, movie showings and cleaning up local parks and green spaces.

Let us know what you are planning. Contact your regional staff member or email us if you’d like help with promotion or organising your event.