Our Switch Your Bank Campaign launches in Bristol
17 January 2026: Members of the Bristol Climate Choir sang a rousing rendition of “We’re Gonna Switch Our Bank” outside Barclays in Broadmead. The performance aims to encourage the public to switch to banks with more ethical and environmentally friendly policies. The action, a collaboration with the youth-led banking campaign SWITCHED, comes in response to growing concerns about the role of financial institutions in supporting industries that contribute to climate change. SWITCHED’s mission is to empower people to make a difference by moving their money away from banks with harmful environmental practices to those supporting climate-positive investments. The song performed is a catchy and upbeat anthem inspired by the Netflix hit film KPop Demon Hunters.
Cambridge Rehearsals
Rehearsals 2nd & 4th Mondays of the month7.30pm – 9 pmat Friends Meeting House12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA
Cambridge Climate Choir singing with ‘Lefty Men Sing’
27 April 2025
Defend Our Juries
7 April 2024: Taking inspiration from the early Quakers’ principle of ‘speaking truth to power’ and the view that juries must be allowed to vote according to their conscience, climate choir singers met at the Monument in the City of London to sing Sing Truth to Power composed by Kate Honey. Defend Our Juries campaign is protesting that climate activists be allowed to state their reasons for civil disobedience (some judges are not allowing this). Choirs joined a silent Quaker Meeting and vigil near the Monument in the City of London. Singers and campaigners then walked to the Royal Courts of Justice bearing banners supporting Defend Our Juries at this vital moment for our democratic processes.
The Guardian 3.5.23: Climate protesters rework Spice Girls song to disrupt Barclays AGM
21 April 2023: The Climate Choir Movement grows as choirs from Bristol, Bath and London join with newly-formed choirs from Southampton, Swansea and Oxford to sing rousing renditions of Let Us Stand and Voice of Change at The Big One in London. Four days of activism by key groups seeking to stop new fossil fuel projects and the setting up of citizen-led democratic assemblies to grow voices for change.
Eradicate Ecocide, The City, London
4 December 2023: Financial decision-makers in the City of London were serenaded with a specially-composed rousing song. Its message: that environmentally-damaging decisions and acts (ecocide) by powerful institutions must be made a criminal offence. Such legislation is already proposed in the UK, also Italy, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Scotland. The song ‘Eradicate Ecocide’ was composed by choir leader Kate Honey. The law can get behind sustainable futures and convince financiers to change values and choices in favour of life and futures on earth. Singers marched through the streets of the City to coincide with the COP28 conference in Dubai.
Songs for Gaia at Bath Abbey
30 September 2023: Gaia, the whole earth, suspended over singers from Bath Climate Choir, reminding all of the vital need to protect our planet. The work by artist Luke Jerram, together with songs from forty singers from Bath Climate Choir led by Barrie and Kate, made a powerful combination, enhanced by the historic setting and wonderful acoustic.
The Big One, London
21 April 2023: The Climate Choir Movement grows as choirs from Bristol, Bath and London join with newly-formed choirs from Southampton, Swansea and Oxford to sing rousing renditions of Let Us Stand and Voice of Change at The Big One in London. Four days of activism by key groups seeking to stop new fossil fuel projects and the setting up of citizen-led democratic assemblies to grow voices for change.
UK Divest Day in the City of London
24 March 2023: UK Divest Day of Action: the Bristol, London and Bath Climate Choirs sing out in the City of London to change minds and hearts on the urgent need to divest from fossil fuels and move more quickly to renewables. Choices about where to put pension investments have a massive influence on carbon emissions – or on their reduction. Powerful financial institutions such as Black Rock and Vanguard are urged to wake up and take a lead. Singers call for CEOs Larry Fink and Tim Buckley to listen up
Our first action
4 February 2023: The choir accompanies the Red Rebels at the No Airport Expansion rally. The seeds for the choir were sown back in November when the court sat to decide on challenges to expansion of Bristol airport. The High Court judge’s decision to uphold planning permission despite overwhelming opposition will be appealed by Bristol Airport Action Network and its many supporters.