Welcome to Netroots UK

Netroots UK aims to support the growth of infrastructure, networks and movements for left and centre-left online activism.

30 Jun: Netroots UK 2012
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07 December 2010 ~ 6 Comments

Link to us: Banners and buttons

Do you have a website or blog? Please add a banner to it to show your support. You can save these images, or use the code under each image to call it direct from our server. [Read more]

06 December 2010 ~ 2 Comments

What do YOU want from Netroots UK?

Here are just a few of the responses we’ve been getting on what attendees want to see from the Netroots UK event. We’ve had some really useful suggestions that have shaped our thinking on this – as well as some very useful practical ideas that we’re hoping to be able to put into practice for the event. [Read more]

06 December 2010 ~ Comments Off

Avaaz and LabourList join Netroots UK

We’re very pleased to announce two more partner organisations – the huge global movement for people powered politics, Avaaz.org, and the Labour Party focused independent progressive blog, Labourlist. Both of them add some really great experience of netroots campaigning and movement building, and some great lessons for us to share on the day.

29 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Who needs to know about Netroots UK?

Netroots UK on 8 January is fast approaching, and we want to have as wide a range of online progressives as possible attending on the day. So if you know of anyone who’d be good to have at the event, or anyone who might get a lot out of it, please let them know about it.

Be they bloggers, tweeters, social networkers, hardened geeks or relative n00bs, political people, environmental, community, union, policy, campaign, charity, whatever. Let’s get them all along, so we can spread the learning and make a more useful day for everyone!

You can help get the word out by: [Read more]

18 November 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Online activism gets its day in UK

PRESS RELEASE: 18/11/2010 (For immediate release)

Netroots UK: A one day event to network and inspire progressive activists working on the web. Saturday 8 January, Congress House, Central London, WC1B 3LS.

Bloggers, tweeters and online campaigners from around the UK will be coming together face to face in London on Saturday 8 January for Netroots UK, a day of strategy, training and networking for grassroots activists.

The event comes as leading left wing bloggers look to be winning the popularity war with the more established right wing blogs*, and as pressure grows across the progressive movement in response to the government’s programme of harsh spending cuts. [Read more]