We are nearing the end of our first crowdfunding appeal and we are reaching out to you to ask for your support in the final stretch.

Hopefully you’ve seen our pleading letters, articles and social media posts over the last few weeks (don’t worry, it will soon be over). We are trying to raise £20,000 to support our ongoing investigations and our reporting from the frontlines of environmental activism as the climate challenges we face appear more clearly than ever before. 

Because of your fantastic support we are – at time of publishing – at 66% of our target with just 5 days to go. 

Will you help us get nearer our target so we can continue?

Our work is divided into four overlapping areas of focus:

1. We expose covert networks working to spread disinformation and propaganda about the realities of climate breakdown.

2. We report from the frontlines of resistance to ecological breakdown.

3. We report on corporate abuse and wrongdoing and fossil fuel propaganda.

4. We map and reveal the emerging transatlantic networks that will feast on post-Brexit deregulation and the think-tanks that are coordinating these policies.

But the bulk of the money we are raising will go towards reporting local actions and protests in Britain in the coming year.

DeSmog UK has reported from the frontlines of some of the UK’s most significant fossil fuel resistances.

As our editor Mat Hope put it:

“It has been an absolute privilege to have played a small part in telling so many important stories. But we need your help to continue. We want to do more. So much more. But it all costs money. Each feature costs about £1,000 to produce. That’s why we’re trying to crowdfund £20,000, so we can visit 20 environmental protests in 2019.”

The UK press, partly because of cutbacks and partly because its own business model is entreched in the system we have around us, fail to engage with the ecological catastrophe we can all now see before us.

The ‘environment’ is treated as a fringe issue, or downplayed as Nimbyism. 

This is more important than ever as legitimate protest is being criminalised and put under surveillance. 

Now we turn to you to help us continue our work at this critical time. 

We need you to help us challenge the powerful interests of the past that are clinging on to the polluting fuels driving climate breakdown.

This is the moment when we need you to stand up and help out.

We need you to put your hand in your pocket and become a Supporter (£25), a Sponsor (£50), or a Champion (£100).

This is a critical time. We need your support right now. Donate here.