Key dates: campaigning calendar

Get ahead of the game with your planning by using our campaigning calendar. Here you can find out when key actions, moments and themes are taking place and access resources to help you kick-off your campaigns.

03 May 2024

2024 is a big year for the environmental justice movement. Here's some key campaigning dates for your diary, for our United for Warm Homes campaign and other campaigns that our network is involved in locally. We’ve included resources to get you started, as well as objectives to help focus your campaigning.

Please note: this calendar isn't exhaustive and we'll be reviewing this information and adding in new "moments" and resources to reflect what's happening in the world. This is so your campaigns can stay reactive and relevant. Watch this space!

May – August 2024

To kick-start summer we'll be launching our Right to a Healthy Environment campaign, using water pollution as a way of introducing the topic. In July we’ll be coming together for our in-person Summer Action Gatherings, to connect with each other and develop our campaigning skills. Refugee Week and Great Big Green Week will also be important moments for us to connect as a movement, build relationships with community partners and amplify the call for international climate justice.

Sh*t Beach: water pollution and the Environmental Rights Act

Campaigning period: 14 May – September 2024

Campaigning period: 14 May and all summer

Friends of the Earth is launching a spoof video to highlight the issue of water pollution. The tongue-in-cheek approach will be the start of a conversation and a series of campaign actions related to pollution.

Main objective: to build support for a new Environmental Rights Act (ERA) to enshrine our right to a healthy environment in law.

Resources:

United for Warm Homes: winning MP and election candidates support

Campaigning period: now until the general election

Following our successful Day of Action, it's crucial community groups from across England and Wales continue to put pressure on their MPs and general election candidates.

Main objective: win real commitments for Warm Homes. We'd also like to get them to sign up to our Warm Homes pledge.

Campaign resources:

Summer action gatherings

Campaigning period: May – July 2024

Our Summer Action Gatherings are friendly, inclusive events for Friends of the Earth local action group members and the wider environmental justice activist network.

Main objective: a day for local action groups to share, connect, plot and plan.

Resources:

Summer Action Gatherings 2024 event page

Refugee Week

Campaigning period: Jun 2024

As part of a worldwide network, one way to show international solidarity is to make our home country a welcoming one. That’s why we’re taking part in Refugee Week  in 2024, and we want you to join us.

Main objective: build relationships with and work with community partners, including refugees and people seeking asylum.

Resources:

Training: take part in Refugee Week 2024
How to celebrate Refugee Week (this will be updated closer to the date to reflect plans taking place in 2024).
What’s the link between climate, migration and refugees?

Great Big Green Week

Campaigning period: Jun 2024

Dates: 8 – 16 June 2024

The Great Big Green Week is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of community action to tackle climate change and protect nature. Every year, people come together to unleash a wave of support for action to protect the planet.

Main objective: to get out into your community, take part in campaign actions and build your group’s profile.

Campaign resources:

The Great Big Green Week resource hub
Welcome events guides and presentation
Add your event. This takes you to a log-in page but don't worry, you're in the right place! Remember to add your event so more people can find it. Last year around 30% of Great Big Green Week attendees found local events through the main page, enabling community groups to reach new audiences.

Later in 2024

As we come towards the end of the year, we’ll reflect on what we’ve achieved together as a movement and come together for mobilisations and events around COP29 so that we enter 2025 a stronger, more connected and more inspired movement.

General election

We also know that a general election will be called at some point in 2024, although it's unclear when this will be. Once the date's confirmed, we'll provide your group with training and resources to make climate, nature and social justice a key election issue in your local area.

Resources, training and support

Don't forget we've got a hub of resources to help you with your campaigning, and we regularly run training sessions. If you have any questions or require support, please contact us at [email protected]