Find out what to expect on our training sessions, including our approach to online training, what we ask of participants and how we ensure our sessions are accessible.

 

If you have accessibility requirements or use a screen reader that make booking a training difficult for you, please get in touch with us at [email protected] for help. 

You can also view recordings of previous training sessions.

Campaigning and activism training and events

 

Welcome to Friends of the Earth

This is an introductory session for anyone who is interested in joining a Friends of the Earth local action group. Everyone is welcome – whether you’re completely new to local campaigning, have recently joined your local action group, or just want to find out more about how you can be part of the solutions to the climate and ecological crisis.

Wednesday 6 November (6 - 7:15pm)

 

Stop Arming Israel – solidarity with PENGON!

The war in Gaza has been horrendous for our sister organisation PENGON/ Friends of the Earth Palestine, and we’ve continued to stand by them as protest around the world has remained strong. In September, as a first step in our Stop Arming Israel work, Friends of the Earth local action groups took part in the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice. Join this session to hear from those who took action, share feedback on how it went and plan our next steps to be part of a UK movement for international justice together.

Tuesday 19 November (6 - 7pm)

 

United for Warm Homes: creating scarves for impact

Over autumn and winter, we’re focusing on making Warm Homes scarves and using them to engage our local communities with the campaign. During this webinar, we’ll share tips for getting started with this action and explore how you can use this tactic to engage partners and your local community.

Thursday 21 November (6pm - 7:15pm)

 

Planet over Profit – November webinar

Join our regular webinar with local action groups on the Planet over Profit campaign. For November’s session, we’ll be hearing from Birmingham Friends of the Earth about its creative writing project. We'll also be catching up on the latest from our campaigners, including new mapping of factory farm waste and WALHI's (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) campaign on Unilever’s palm oil supply chain and a UK-funded gold mine threatening precious forests. We’ll also have time to share ideas about community outreach on the campaign.

Monday 25 November (6:30 - 7:45pm)

 

Lunchtime talk: can AI ever be environmentally friendly?

As AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives, its environmental impact grows. Can AI’s usefulness ever outweigh its environmental harms? Join us for an engaging panel discussion as we explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and environmental sustainability. 

Tuesday 26 November (12:30 - 1:30pm)

 

Active Hope

This workshop is an introduction to Active Hope, a resilience and well-being practice designed to help us find and offer our best response to the crises unfolding in our world. It shares tools that help us face the mess we’re in, as well as find and play our role in the collective transition to a life-sustaining society.

Join us to discover more about these tools and how you can put them into practice in your campaigning.

Wednesday 22 January (6 - 8:15pm)

 

Anti-racism training

We're running a series of in-person trainings for local action groups from November 2024 to January 2025. You'll leave the training with practical tools to embed anti-racism into your everyday campaigning. Find out more and book your spot.

Various dates and locations.

 

External training and events

 

Tipping Point UK: healthy groups training series

Tipping Point UK is organising a 9-part training series to delve into some of the ways we can build powerful and healthy dynamics in our groups and campaigns. In this series, you'll also get practical skills for keeping each other safe and protecting wellbeing.

Monday 11 November to 24 March (monthly)