Burnout to Renewal: What Role for Social Change Organisations? Kat Wall, co-Director of Organising for Change, a new UK-based training initiative, shares some reflections on the role of social change organisations in creating a regenerative approach to activism. In the mountains of Catalunya, nestled into the hillside, rests a large old house, home to the […]

One of the key aims of the Ulex Project has always been about offering a space for activists to build new connections across Europe. A space where – away from the day-to-day slog of making change happen – people can take time to strengthen their networks and better understand how our struggles intersect, forming new friendships in […]

As part of our series on Ulex Project Partners, we speak with Akim, Operations Officer from Transgender Europe (TGEU), about why sustainable activism is a key focus for 2017. With 105 member organisations in 42 different countries, TGEU works for the equality of all trans people by combating discrimination, raising awareness and supporting advocacy for trans people’s human rights.  Tell […]

For the second in our series of Project Partner Spotlights we speak with Daniel Negro from Cooperativa Integral Catalana (CIC), a collective which launched in Catalunya in 2010, with the aim to build from the bottom-up a self-managed society beyond capitalism. Using the tools of direct democracy, cooperativism, self-organisation and self-management, the CIC now has about 300 individual […]

Les formacions del Projecte Ulex donen suport a organitzacions d’Europa que estan treballant cap al canvi en diferents contextos. En aquest segon article de la nostra sèrie sobre Projectes Associats parlem amb el Daniel Negre de la Cooperativa Integral Catalana (CIC), un col·lectiu nascut a Catalunya en 2010 amb la intenció de construir un moviment […]

Ulex Project trainings support a number or organisations across Europe who are pushing for change in a variety of different contexts. For the first in a series of Project Partner Spotlights we speak with Ekaterine Gejadze, Project Coordinator from Women’s Fund in Georgia (WFG), an organisation which has been successfully working to improve and defend […]

Join us for this online webinar exploring how Theatre of the Oppressed can help us transform ourselves, our activism and our world.  The webinar will include input from three experienced facilitators who are leading a range of 2017/18 trainings at the Ulex Project and will introduce key elements of Theatre of the Oppressed. It will explore […]

Mark the date in your diary – MARCH 23 – when we’ll be launching our first crowdfunder! In fact our first ever people-powered fundraising campaign since we began offering trainings in 2008… Since then our work has touched into the lives of hundreds of people working on the frontlines of progressive social change; we’ve innovated and […]

What’s in a name? Ulex is the latin name for the plant which in Catalunya we call argelaga. In English it is known as gorse. It’s a common thorny-evergreen flowering plant. Its yellow flowers and sweet fragrances are well known from the northern coast of Scotland to the edges of the Mediterranean Sea. What’s it got […]

The Sustaining Resistance: Empowering Renewal training grew out of a gathering in a remote part of Catalunya to become an open source inspiration for sustainable activism training across Europe and beyond. Gee tells the story of its development. You might remember: 2009 was the year of the COP15, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change […]