#CitizenFriday Weekly Plotting call
Calling all citizens, pirates, trouble makers - come to our weekly plotting call to help co-create, activate and amplify Citizen Friday 2025
This is the third year of Citizen Friday, a grassroots, citizen-created campaign that primarily takes place in community spaces, workshops, and the outdoors. But this year, we’re thinking bigger.
We have a dream. That Citizen Friday won’t just replace Black Friday in our lives, but that it might one day replace the consumer story itself. On the streets. Across the billboards. In public spaces and public imagination.
And to do that, we need YOU.
This year, we’re making the campaign collective. Crowd-sourced and citizen-led. Which means shaping it together: asking questions, trying ideas, testing messages, and building it in public, as a community.
What might we need?
Posters for the streets - let’s go guerrilla
Stitch & Hike kits and event guides
Polls and collective tools to shape the message
ACTionism film screenings (on Nov 28?)
Banners, patches, and there will be sewing throughout
Maybe even a party...
We’ll also need time, skills, energy - and yes, funding - to bring this vision to life.
What can you bring?
There are so many ways to get involved, at all levels. You might:
Share a story
Host a community event
Join the debate
Run a repair session or a local walk
Help design or paste up posters
Offer skills in graphics, tech, outreach, or logistics
Or simply spread the message in your community, workplace or organisation
This isn’t just a protest against consumerism.
It’s a practice of something better.
The Plan (So Far)
Over the next 6 weeks, we’ll shape the campaign together:
Week 1: Campaign co-creation: What’s the message? What do we need? Posters, stickers, ideas? Expect community polls, open calls, and shared design.
Week 2: We dig into Repair: as a practical skill and political act.
Week 3: We explore Sharing, from tool libraries to stories.
Week 4: We dig into the power of stepping outdoors
Week 5-6: We build momentum, create resources, and bring the campaign to life.
And then, on November 28th, we gather in our community spaces, our fields and forests, in the fresh air and shared warmth, to mark Citizen Friday - together.