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Summer Gathering 2026

Earth First Sum­mer Gath­er­ing 2026
12th- 17th August, Peak Dis­trict
Near­est Train Sta­tion: Sheffield

Hear ye, Hear ye!! You are invit­ed to five days of cross-move­ment pol­li­na­tion and sol­i­dar­i­ty in the form of work­shops, skill shares, crafts, games and polit­i­cal edu­ca­tion. These gath­er­ings are a space for those who believe in the lib­er­a­tion of all life to put our heads togeth­er and dream new worlds into being. Come along and learn about past envi­ron­men­tal strug­gles and move­ment vic­to­ries, bio­cen­trism, green anar­chy, cur­rent direct action and social jus­tice cam­paigns, and let’s fig­ure out how we can tear the cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem a new one.

Beau­ti­ful sur­round­ings, kid’s space, live music and late-night jams, deli­cious veg­an scran, and much more, all with­in a stones throw of Sheffield! Bring ya hik­ing boots and your danc­ing shoes, it’s gonna be glo­ri­ous!

More info includ­ing about acces­si­bil­i­ty and trans­port, well­be­ing and covid will be shared here near­er the time. No need to sign up, just turn up and bring ya mates. If you need to get in touch, if you have a pro­pos­al or have any Qs you can email earthfirst.uk@proton.me

We don’t rely on algo­rithms or adverts to get the word out about these gath­er­ings, we rely on you shar­ing this with your com­rades and net­works xxa black and white poster depicting a fire breathing eel burning down industry, their body is adorned with symbols of direct action including spray cans, chains and tools.

Kitchen, kids space and kick ass workshops

Can you help run kids activ­i­ties at the sum­mer gath­er­ing? Or a wide game or craft activ­i­ty that every­one can get involved with?

Can you help in the kitchen? We need folks who are cre­ative and con­fi­dent in cater­ing for the mass­es, who can help make sure every­one gets fed!

Can you run a work­shop or offer some evening enter­tain­ment? Skill shares, wide games, a ceilidh even?!

If you can help fill one of these essen­tial roles dur­ing the gath­er­ing then drop us an email at earthfirst.uk@proton.me

Plans just announced by EWR to build a train maintenance depot and train sidings in the village of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire.

Plans just announced by EWR to build a 24 hour train main­te­nance depot and train sid­ings in the vil­lage of Ful­bourn, as it has not been well adver­tised and the con­sul­ta­tion clos­es on 9th June.

It will involve a com­pul­so­ry pur­chase of Green Belt land and will be con­struct­ed adja­cent to the Ful­bourn chalk springs (the ‘Poor Well’) and streams and adja­cent to 3 sites of Spe­cial Sci­en­tif­ic Inter­est.

6 trains will be cleaned overnight between 10.30pm‑3.30am 7 days a week. Most­ly inter­nal clean­ing but some exter­nal clean­ing. There is no plan for where the water will come from for the exter­nal clean­ing. The area is severe­ly water deplet­ed with the vil­lage chalk streams dry­ing up for the last 3 sum­mers.

Each train will have 5 toi­lets which will be emp­tied into sep­tic tanks and the efflu­ent col­lect­ed by sludge trucks once a week. These sludge trucks will come via the Wilbra­hams (as will all the con­struc­tion traf­fic).

The chalk springs and streams that bor­der the planned Ful­bourn site risk being pol­lut­ed by leaks from the depot. The Envi­ron­men­tal Agency has doc­u­ment­ed many leaks from so-called ‘sealed’ clean­ing and toi­let man­age­ment sys­tems.

Ful­bourn is also one of the only loca­tions in the UK where swifts (a Red List species) nest) and the vil­lage has put huge efforts into putting up box­es and annu­al mon­i­tor­ing. They are like­ly to be dis­rupt­ed by this devel­op­ment as it will be oper­a­tional 10.30pm- 3.30pm and will have per­ma­nent night light­ing. The sid­ings will be raised to the light­ing will be very vis­i­ble for a wide dis­tance.

The site also bor­ders a des­ig­nat­ed ancient mon­u­ment and the vil­lage sits at the inter­sec­tion of Fleam Dyke and the Ick­nield Way mean­ing there are like­ly to be oth­er her­itage assets as yet undoc­u­ment­ed eg When the rail­way was built in mid-1840s a Roman vil­la was found but remains unex­ca­vat­ed.

The online web­site from EWR and the recent con­sul­ta­tion indi­cate that an alter­nate site out­side Fox­ton was also con­sid­ered and was acknowl­edged by EWR to be a less sen­si­tive site from a natural/heritage and social (few­er hous­es direct­ly affect­ed) per­spec­tive. It is also adja­cent to a sewage works which would mean no need for stor­age and trans­porta­tion of sewage.

The rea­son this alter­na­tive site was turned down was it would be fur­ther to roll emp­ty trains to and from Cam­bridge sta­tion.

Once Green Belt and chalk streams are gone, they can nev­er be restored. It’s time to mobi­lize our net­works and fight this!

See more info about EWR’s plans, and respond to the con­sul­ta­tion here: https://eastwestrail.co.uk/consultation/consultation2026

Sign the peti­tion and get involved with the local cam­paign here  https://save-fulbourn.netlify.app 

Drop an email to earthfirst.uk@proton.me to link up with EF!ers who care deeply about this issue and want to take at a stand against it!!

 

 

 

 

Lakenheath Peace Camp: 1st-6th April

Hel­lo EF!ers, this is your offi­cial invite to Lak­en­heath Inter­na­tion­al Peace Camp — April 1st — 6th with an EF! Night shift on April 5th from 5pm.

Bring what you need…sleeping bags, small tent (altho some shel­ter avail­able), food to share, songs and poet­ry. More info on what to expect on lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk

We ask folks to read the EF! anti oppres­sion state­ment and take a covid test before attend­ing, wear a mask both to pro­tect each oth­er from germs and sur­veil­lance — Our immuno-com­pro­mised friends are attend­ing and we got­ta look after each oth­er <3

Here’s a quick run down of stuff that is already sched­uled  — the sched­ule below is pinched from Lak­en­heath Alliance For Peace, you can donate to them here
There’s loads of oppor­tu­ni­ties to get involved, to make con­nec­tions, to learn and scheme about how we dis­man­tle the mil­i­tary indus­tri­al com­plex:

Wednesday 1st April: Set Up

Set­ting up the camp and the vig­il out­side the main gate at ‘RAF’ Lak­en­heath

Thursday 2nd April: Outreach Day,

Leaflet­ing in Bran­don and pos­si­bly oth­er near­by towns.

Friday 3rd April: Environment Day

The impact of mil­i­tarism of the envi­ron­ment with speak­ers and work­shops.

Saturday 4th April: Give Peace a Chance (12noon – 3pm)

Peo­ple will be arriv­ing from var­i­ous parts of the coun­try includ­ing coach­es from Lon­don. We will have var­i­ous speak­ers dis­cussing the issues around the return of nuclear weapons to the UK and oth­er issues relat­ed to US bases in the UK.

Sunday 5th April: Coming Together – Rising Up

Mak­ing the links between dif­fer­ent cam­paigns.

EF! Night shift at the gate from 5pm till sun rise

Monday 6th April: Grand Finale – Visions Into Action

With net­work­ing dur­ing the camp we will turn ideas into action. From cam­paigns like Dont­BankOn­The­Bomb to more active protest.

Thanks for a wonderful Sheffield Spring Moot!

A picture of a 3 storey squat of an old printing shop. there is a banner hanging out one window reading Earth First! spring moot. On the ground floor there's a large spray painted sign reading workshop 2. Acab has been painted on the old logos. There are 8 masked figures sitting on the edge of the roof at the top of the photo

Thanks to every­one who came to the EF! region­al moot in Sheffield — we reck­on well over a hun­dred of you were there at some point or anoth­er. It was love­ly to see old friends and also meet new faces (for lots of peo­ple it was their first squat!) We had music, work­shops, abseil­ing, archery, and very nice veg­an food. You should have seen the pas­ta — it did­n’t even clump!

It’s vital­ly impor­tant we keep mak­ing the con­nec­tions between cli­mate, ecol­o­gy, mil­i­tarism, and so much more. And doing it in a reclaimed build­ing in the cen­tre of a major city was a rather nice bit of pro­pa­gan­da of the deed , even if we do say so our­selves. See you next time 🙂

Poster for Summer 2026 — share it far!

the poster is black and white and depicts a fanged eel on a starry sky background who is breathing fire onto an industrial looking building atop a boggy landscape. the eel is decorated with icons of tools including spray paint, chains, Allen keys, hammers and colt butters. The text on the poster reads: earth first! summer gathering, 12th-17th august 2026, location TBA, email: earthfirst.uk@proton.me, website: www.earthfirst.uk

Hel­lo EF!ers, check out the poster for the upcom­ing sum­mer gath­er­ing, isn’t it cool! Have you ever seen a fire-breath­ing eel before?!

To grow the move­ment, and reach as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble, we rely on our real world rela­tion­ships to get the word out about the gath­er­ings. We don’t rely on social media and its gov­ern­ing algo­rithms. We don’t rent ad space.

If you have access to a print­er, please print and dis­trib­ute the fly­er in the spaces where your com­mu­ni­ty gath­ers — your squat, co-op, food­bank, com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre, youth club, your local Job Cen­tre Plus or HSBC branch(?), maybe you can take some fly­ers to a demo or invite your read­ing group?

One week until the Brighton Spring Moot!

There’s just one week to go until the Brighton Spring Moot on 21st March 🙂

More details are avail­able here — we’re also super chuffed to announce the details of the Brighton Earth First! Spring Moot After-Par­ty! 🏴‍☠️

To cel­e­brate and socialise after a day of work­shops and dis­cus­sions, Earth First! is hold­ing an after-par­ty fol­low­ing the Spring Moot at Future Roots. The par­ty will be held at the Cow­ley Club — a DIY, vol­un­teer-run, anar­chist social cen­tre on Lon­don Road.

All wel­come, regard­less of whether you attend­ed the Moot. Sug­gest­ed dona­tion: £3 Moot attendees/£6 12LRSC members/£7 non-mem­bers

Folk punk locals Pog will be play­ing a set fol­lowed by Flo­ralis with their anar­chist, anti-colo­nial hip hop.

Doors open 8pm. The bar will be open, mem­bers and guests wel­come. 18+ only. There is step-free access to the main space, and there are 4 steps down to the toi­lets.

See ya there x

Sheffield Spring Moot 2026

SHEFFIELD MOOT LOCATION ANNOUNCED:

We are proud and excit­ed to announce to the world that we have squat­ted the love­ly old Pin­ders print shop, on 16 Moore Street, S3 7US. Entrance is round the back on Hodg­son street, via the blue gate.

This is the much cov­et­ed, high­ly exclu­sive and very styl­ish loca­tion of the EF! Sheffield Spring Moot. It’s near the bot­tom of the Moor, and is a 13 min walk from the train sta­tion.

Beat that for prime real estate!

Get your­selves down here — bring your friends and com­rades and suf­fi­cient­ly cool fam­i­ly mem­bers, your anar­chist accom­plices and com­fort­able chairs and fab­u­lous flap­jack. Come on!

In fact, we can’t help but won­der why you ain’t here already — and don’t give us that “but it was an inten­tion­al­ly mys­te­ri­ous loca­tion shroud­ed in the upmost clan­des­ti­nous [sic] how the hell were we supp-” non­sense. Today, we’ll have lunch from 12:30pm and the work­shops will start at 1:30pm. Then it’s a straight run until we fin­ish on Sun­day at 5pm.

We have a new work­shop doc where peo­ple are putting their work­shop descrip­tions, so check that out too. One last time, we’re remind­ing you to do a covid test, dress warm, and bring some cash, a bat­tery pack. a head­torch & a camp­ing chair if you can.

Here’s the vari­ety of use­ful links con­tain­ing infor­ma­tion about the event:

info doc, pro­gramme, access state­ment, sign up form

In warm antic­i­pata­tion of the immi­nent appraisal of your mar­vel­lous mugs,

ShEF! crew <3

SAVE THE DATE: On 6–8th March 2026, we’re having an Earth First! spring moot in Sheffield!

Sign up here to come along! (or email sharc0114@proton.me)

Need more details? Here’s our info-mega-doc which we’ll con­tin­u­ous­ly update 🙂

We also have an access state­ment and a draft pro­gramme

What is a spring moot? Come along if you want a week­end full of:
🎉 work­shops, games, socials and more
💬 Eco­log­i­cal resis­tance, anar­chism, anti-impe­ri­al­ism, local organ­is­ing, anti-fas­cism and more.
😋 deli­cious veg­an food
🫂 old friends! new ones! fun 😀

🔥 Down with Empire up with Spring 🌱

invite your friends! and maybe your ene­mies too!

📍loca­tion will be announced to sign ups on Fri­day 6th (squat in cen­tral Sheffield)
🌐 www.earthfirst.uk/sheff26 for more info
✉️ sharc0114@proton.me for any ques­tions

We’ll update this page with more infor­ma­tion as it becomes avail­able. In the mean­time, keep the date free and let your friends know 🙂

P.S. it’s being organ­ised by a local crew, not the sum­mer gath­er­ing col­lec­tive. Email sharc0114@proton.me if you have any ques­tions

Come to Brighton’s EF! Spring Moot on March 21st 2026!

Brighton’s Earth First! Spring Moot on 21st March

Join us for a day of work­shops and dis­cus­sion at Future Roots in Stan­mer Park, a beau­ti­ful piece of wood­land in the shad­ow of the L3Harris arms fac­to­ry, which makes bomb com­po­nents that are sent to the likes of Turkey, Israel and Sau­di Ara­bia. The theme for this Moot is there­fore ecol­o­gy, cli­mate cri­sis and mil­i­tarism: we will be explor­ing the rela­tion­ship between mil­i­tarism and eco­log­i­cal degra­da­tion; how mil­i­taries try to build legit­i­ma­cy with green­wash­ing, how eco­log­i­cal destruc­tion is used as a weapon of war, and and how states enforce their con­trol with eco­cide. We want to share knowl­edge and build a anar­chist eco­log­i­cal move­ment that is not co-opt­ed by busi­ness, NGOs or gov­ern­ments.

The Moot will run from 9.30am till sun­set, with work­shops from 10am to 5.45pm, veg­an lunch and din­ner, tea and snacks. We will fin­ish with some drinks around the fire, fol­lowed by an after­par­ty in town, more details tba.
Kids are very wel­come, we hope to col­lec­tive­ly run a kids space!

Entrance fees are dona­tion-based, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Get­ting there
Bus: Num­ber 78 bus runs into Stan­mer park (7–10 minute walk to course site) and num­ber 25 bus to park entrance (17–20 minute walk).
Train: Falmer train sta­tion is a 20+ minute walk away
Cycle: there is a cycle path (unseg­re­gat­ed, but paint­ed) from Brighton town cen­tre all the way to Stan­mer vil­lage.

Acces­si­bil­i­ty on site
There are step-free foot­paths through the site. These are uneven and depend­ing on the weath­er, may be slip­pery. Sit­ting and stand­ing pee­ing toi­lets are on site, and com­post toi­lets are avail­able a 2 minute walk away.

For ques­tions please email earthfirst.uk@proton.me. If you’re com­ing from out­side Brighton and need crash space, please get in touch too—we’ll see what we can do!

Love and rage!
Some Earth­Firsters