Story

Postcode Revolution began in Burgess Hill in the summer of 2023.

The founder, Jack Cooper, had previously been a radical climate activist. He sat in roads, jumped on stages and most (in)famously ran on the football pitch during the 2022 Women’s Euros Quarter Final in support of Just Stop Oil. He now has a criminal record and a stadium ban to boot.

Shortly after this action, he encountered the Climate Majority Project, attending one of the early gatherings in Liverpool. Being exposed to an alternative theory of change convinced Jack to change course and pursue community climate action, working with the majority rather than seeking to antagonise the general public.

Jack was inspired to act in the place he’d lived all his life, his postcode. Living on a long main road, this provided a good boundary for the community (27 houses) and an identity. Jack knocked on doors and formed a WhatsApp group chat and Facebook group for his postcode. With the help of his family he held a community connection event in which residents from 10 houses turned up (many of whom didn’t know one another).

Jack formed an energy group and organised energy performance certificates for 5 houses (using collective bargaining). The community started using the WhatsApp chat to share tools, services, food and to connect. A postcode book group was formed and Jack's family hosted another community connection event (this time the theme was a music festival :)

By the end of the summer, Jack felt a sense of community and belonging in the street he’d grown up in like never before, had experienced a taste of low carbon living and felt better prepared and more resilient in the face of climate breakdown.

Since then, Jack has been spreading the word, encouraging others to do the same.

He calls this Postcode Revolution …

The future on your doorstep.