With the hottest September since records began, scientists agree we are reaching tipping points faster than they expected. That’s why it is so important that we pull together as a community to make our voices heard. 

So, Unite to Survive South West in Bath could not be more timely: working as a coalition with climate, nature and social justice groups we stand in solidarity with all human and non-human species to express our desire for change.

Join this family friendly event from 10 to 5pm on 28 October at Victoria Park, Bath.

You can view the event details here.

Open call today at 6pm

To find out how you can get involved coming to our final zoom call on Sunday 22 at 6 to 7pm. Any questions before contact accessinclusionsw@protonmail.com.

Register for todays zoom call here.

See you on Saturday

A huge thank you to XR South West for this information and their work on planning this day.

We’ll have members of XR Stroud and Street Beats Stroud attending. Hope you see you there.

💚 XR Stroud

Just wanted to let you know about a South West family friendly protest day coming up on Saturday 28 October in Bath.

All nature, climate and social justice groups are invited to help shape the event with us.

There will be a number of climate groups joining us in Bath. As ever we will be supported by the Red Rebels and the XR Rhythms bands from across the South West.

It should be a wonderful opportunity to do something about the bad climate news we’ve been hearing about all summer. It will be a fun, relaxing low risk day focused on raising awareness of climate issues.

We’ll share more information about the day as we get nearer the time.

Getting other groups involved

If you’re a member of a climate, nature or social just group that you think may want to join us.

Feel free to contact the South West team directly on accessinclusionsw@protonmail.com. OR, here is a suggested invitation letter which you can copy to send to your group.

Hope you are as well as you can be.

As this government prepares to create 100+ new drilling licences for North Sea oil and gas. It’s time to pick up our local activity planning.

Our next meeting

XR Stroud will be meeting next at the Green Drinks on 9 August at 7:30 to 10:30pm at Stroud Brewery: Main Bar, GL5 2BY.

This relaxed event brings together those with a shared passion for sustainability in all its forms.

We meet monthly to chat about what’s going on in the Net Zero / Sustainability space, “network” and meet others who are interested in the field.

Register your intention to attend here.

Regular meetings

Our more regular meetings are fortnightly on Wednesdays at the Ale House in Stroud at 7pm. Our next regular meeting will be on 23 August.

All of our future meetings are listed on our website if you need them.

Planning local actions

Some ideas for what we could do next involve:

💰Gloucestershire County Council pensions & fossil fuel divestment

🏦Barclays (Europe’s largest fossil fuel financier)

🔥Our local incinerator

🏞️ River Wye pollution

Do you have any ideas for what you’d like us to do next? Please bring your ideas along to a future meeting.

💚 XR Stroud

Hope you’re as well as you can be. Was lovely to see so many of you in London. Here’s a summary of the event and some ideas for what you can do next​.

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XR Stroud meeting next at Green Drinks, Stroud Brewery

Our next meeting will be at the Green Drinks at Stroud Brewery on May 11 from 6:30pm. We’ll be discussing how London went and what we’re planning to do next as a local group. Of course it’ll also be a great excuse to relax, catch up with other rebels.

There will be plenty of other green-minded people from Stroud at the drinks too. It’ll be an opportunity to chat more with many of the other sustainability-focused organisations who joined us in London too.

If you’d like to come along, please sign up for some free tickets here​ to help give the Brewery some ideas of numbers and who would like food.