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Trapese is a Popular Education Collective who offers workshops and training aimed at inspiring and promoting action for changing our world.

TRAPESE stands for ‘Taking Radical Action through Popular Education and Sustainable Everything!’ Our work involves interactive workshops, games, films, trainings, and action/campaign planning sessions. We aim to provide opportunities for children, young people and adults to explore the big issues of our time. Our work focuses on practical steps to inspire, inform and enable action, and how to develop workable alternatives. We are a not for profi t collective motivated by a passionate belief in the power of learning together. Set up in 2004, Trapese toured the UK working with over 100 groups exploring issues of the G8, the global economy and climate change.

Popular education emerges from a rich history interwoven with social movements across the world

New Trapese publication out now! The Rocky road to Transition, As new Transition Towns spring up across the UK, this well timed publication analyses the moves towards transition towns and what it means for social change. A 40 page booklet by Trapese with illustrations by Stuffit download publication here

A timely well thought out piece which makes the case for politicised social justice based response to climate change- Kevin Smith, Transnational Institute

Life Despite Capitalism, Radical Economics Seminar 4-9 September 2008 hosted by the Escanda collective

Trapese popular education gathering In January this year we held a gathering with around 30 people from a diverse range of groups and projects. The weekend was fun,inspiring and packed full of new ideas for educators. We are currently in the process of writing up all the notes from the workshops to be produced in a small booklet,but for now PEGAR
contains all the rough notes.