COPPICE 2027

Where: Edinburgh, Scotland
When: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March, 2027

COPPICE 2027 is a gathering for anyone bringing people together to organise for social change and a fairer, freer future across Britain, Ireland and beyond. The programme will be organised around three themes:

Care in Difficult Times

How can we prioritise care in our groups and movements when things just keep getting harder?  

We're organising in increasingly challenging times, with many of us struggling to meet our own needs while also taking care of the people around us.  

We'd love to receive proposals for sessions about how we collectively meet the needs of our movements and communities in the way we organise around food, housing, disability and madness, prison support, and care for children and elderly folk. Have you been trying something creative? Is there a conversation that's needed but not been happening?

Skills for all Scales

The crises we're facing need to be met at the scale of countries, continents and the world, and also in our neighbourhoods, households and individual relationships. How do we think, act and bring people together across these wildly different scales? 

How do we respond when hundreds of people flood into a group in response to the latest catastrophe on the news, or when membership dwindles as attention is pulled elsewhere? How can we tell stories that hold the big picture as well as the small details? 

We're keen to programme sessions that build the practical skills we need to work flexibly and effectively across this wide range of scales. Are you doing anything massive or tiny? What's been working to bring people in? What hasn't? Where do you see gaps in vision and action?

One Struggle, One Fight

All struggles for justice are connected, but we're not always great at acting like it. How do we build shared narratives and organise effectively across lines of race, class and gender? Where do our interests overlap? 

We'd love to see proposals on this theme that engage concretely with the challenges of building diverse coalitions. How do we get on and stay on the same page? What is our role of the facilitator/organiser/educator in these coalitions? What might become possible if we got better at working across difference?

Because we're inviting proposals for sessions, we don't know exactly what the programme will look like yet. 

We can say that COPPICE 2027 will include:

• Art and performances

• Report-backs, discussion and analysis of a wide range of projects

• Skillshares and practical learning

• Facilitated strategic discussions about how to meet the challenges we're facing

• Spaces for connection, networking and peer support

• Celebration of the spring equinox with a feast and ceilidh 

Call for session proposals: There is an open call to run sessions during the weekend! Presenter fee: £375. Click here to find out more and submit a proposal. Deadline for session proposals is Sunday 15th January 2027.

More info and access:

You can find more information about COPPICE 2027 on the Tripod website. 

A few key details: 

• Tickets to COPPICE are available on a sliding scale. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

• A radical children’s programme is available for kids aged 1 to 12.

• The event will be BSL interpreted. We welcome proposals for events in English and BSL.

• The venue has level access throughout.

• Pay-what-you-can hostel accommodation will be available for folk travelling from outside Edinburgh.