24 Nov 2025
From winter 2025 through to spring 2026 our aim is to deepen support for the Planet Over Profit campaign in our local communities. We want to bring people together who have signed our petitions and shown interest in the campaign and galvanise them to further action.
How can my group get involved?
Aim: This winter groups will be bringing people together for educational and inspirational events focussed on deforestation and corporate supply chains, in a bid to deepen support for the Planet Over Profit campaign.
By contacting the individuals and organisations who have already signed your Planet Over Profit petition and community open letter, you can move them to take further action. By inviting supportive neighbours and businesses to a film screening or similar, you can activate people in your community to campaign for a new Business, Environment and Human Rights Act. You will still be able to collect postcard petition signatures and open letter signatories, but the aim now is to go deeper with your allies and leverage your relationships for change.
If you can show that there is a lot of support in your area for the campaign, your MP is much more likely to take action to support the new law.
When: from December 2025 until May 2026.
Organise an event this winter or spring
We’re suggesting that groups organise a screening of the film Savages (film license to be confirmed), which is a stop-motion animation about an Indigenous child who rescues a baby orangutan from loggers. This is just a suggestion, and groups are encouraged to organise this however they think would best appeal to their local community. For example, could you include food sharing as part of the event to make it more enticing? Or organise a crafting activity for people to do whilst they watch? To really make the local to global connection, consider inviting relevant organisations to speak, such as a local tree planting group or wood recycling initiative.
Where? Find somewhere comfortable, warm and accessible in your local area to host the film screening. Local independent cinemas may be interested, or a local community centre. Or why not ask one of the businesses that’s signed your local community open letter if they would be able to host it?
How? Friends of the Earth have purchased a licence to screen Savages (film license to be confirmed), which we can share with our local groups. Please email [email protected] as soon as possible to confirm the date and venue where you will be screening the film and we will provide further instructions for how to access it.
How can I make the event successful?
Set the date a couple of months in advance and come up with a plan to advertise it. Everyone in your local action group can take the time to share it with friends, neighbours and others groups they are part of. You can adapt this template email invitation (coming soon) or adapt this template flyer (coming soon) to get the word out about your screening.
We would like groups to co-host these events with supportive organisations locally, especially those who have signed your community open letter. It’s important to invite a range of people that reflects your wider community, not just the “usual suspects” within your local environmental networks. We suggest having a look at this guide to building local alliances which will help you map who you want to invite. This guide to anti-racist campaigning will also be useful.
Book the venue early to avoid disappointment and ensure they have the necessary equipment e.g. a projector and projector screen, enough chairs for your expected audience and a tea urn.
Ask people to register for the film screening in advance. You can set up an Action Network page for people to register ahead of time. Please contact [email protected] if you would like support to do this.
Designate roles ahead of the event. For example, you may want somebody to be at the door welcoming people and inviting them to make a hot drink and sit down. It probably makes sense for this person to be different to the person setting up the projector and testing the sound. You will also want somebody who is responsible for health & safety and safeguarding.
As this event is all about connections within the community and building partnerships, we recommend having a few people who know about the Planet Over Profit campaign who can speak to people and find common ground with their values and interests.
Keep collecting petition postcards, online petition signatures and community open letter signatories. These will come in really handy when you come to directly target your MP in the next phase of the campaign!
What else can your group do this winter and spring?
For some groups, organising one film screening will be enough. Other groups may be looking for more activities to get stuck into. It’s entirely up to you how much your group does over the winter and spring period, as long as you’re deepening support for the Planet Over Profit campaign in your community. We also strongly recommend that you invite your MP to at least one event or send them photos afterwards if they don’t turn up. Some suggestions for other activities you may wish to put on this winter:
- Get ahead of the game with some crafty bunting, a tactic which we’ll be rolling out properly next summer.
- Make animal masks which you can use for photo stunts and at the local day of action in May (see below!).
- Host a food-sharing event and invite other local groups to learn about the campaign.
- Anything else you think might work well and appeal to people in your local area!
What next?
We’re building towards a Planet Over Profit local day of action in late May 2026, where we’ll hand in our petitions and open letters to our MPs. From this point onwards we’ll escalate our political lobbying and the more MPs who have heard about the campaign and know that their constituents support it, the better. Remember: The aim is to get MPs to sign the Good Business Matters pledge and to champion a new Business, Environment & Human Rights Act in parliament.
We’ll be announcing more information about the day of action nearer the time, but if you want to get ahead of the game then check out the bunting tactic we’ll be using over spring and summer. This is when you’ll hand in your petition postcards, online petitions and open letters to your MP, so there’s still time to collect signatures and make the most of these resources.
