Category: Summer Gathering 2026

No one turned away for lack of funds

No one is turned away from EF! for a lack of funds, but if you are planning on spending any money at the gathering, cash is preferred as there’s not a cash machine near the site!

EF! is as DIY as it gets, which means sometimes the card reader doesn’t have signal, and do you really want to give someone your whole entire government name so you do a bank transfer to buy their zine?

EF! doesn’t receive funding from billionaires and donations help cover costs like food, kit maintenance, hiring vans and buying equipment to increase accessibility of the gatherings. If you are unsure what you should contribute, please have a read of this solidarity pricing guide

Kit list

This is your (non-exhaustive) kit list for the EF! Summer Gathering!

tent, sleeping bag, roll mat or hammock, mosquito net, tarp
head torch, ear plugs, face mask
good shoes for lots of walking, sun cream, battery pack + cable
long trousers and socks (tick proofing!)
bug repellent (mosquito proofing! no nasty chemicals plz)
toothbrush, any meds you need for the week
bowl, mug, cutlery
crafts & propaganda
cash!! (for zines, books, snacks, donations to cover gathering costs)

Summer Gathering 2026 Entertainment

Amplified music can be very disruptive to wildlife, especially during periods of extreme weather when creatures are already stressed. We love a wild woodland rave as much as the next EF!er, however to make sure that our presence in the ecosystem is as low-impact as possible, evening entertainment will be an acoustic affair at this year’s summer gathering. We are looking for activities that everyone can get involved with in the evenings and will have some very special performances🐴🐷🐲. If you can host a evening activity, quiz, wide game, an open mic or a ceilidh please get in touch!

Earthfirst.uk@proton.me

Summer Gathering Workshops 2026

The workshop schedule for the EF! Summer Gathering is filling up!!

EF!ers asked for more hands-on and practical workshops and opportunities to learn with our whole bodies, so to meet this need there will be workshops on 12V electrics, climbing, herbalism, tech security and more! Please get in touch if you have your own practical skills to share!

To follow on from convos at the last year summer gathering there will be workshops on topics such as cancel culture, artificial intelligence & data centres, and movement strategy. We’re especially interested to include workshops on themes such as prison abolition or ecocide & the military industrial complex. If you have one on those topics please get in touch!

And because we are always welcoming new people into the movement, we will have our regular workshops discussing key principles of green ecological direct action movements, including workshops on green anarchy & biocentrism, and an intro to EF!

To get in touch, email earthfirst.uk@proton.me

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

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?

Save the date: EF! Summer Gathering 2026 will be 12th-17th August!

Greetings all,

The 2026 Earth First! summer gathering will be from Wednesday 12th – Monday 17th August! Woohoo

Save the date, and let your mates know. We don’t have a region in mind yet, but will announce more info when we can. If you have any site suggestions, feel free to get in touch at earthfirstuk@proton.me (you can no longer reach us at earthfirstuk@riseup.net!)

In the meantime, we hope to see you at the regional winter moots which are being organised around the country as we speak. As dates and locations are confirmed we’ll post them in the website, but at a minimum there will definitely be a moot, somewhere, on the 6-8th February 2026.