In 2025 NOC offered 40 sessions — 5000 hours of engaged participative learning, together with open spaces where participants proposed their own sessions.
Sessions ranged from case studies of successful organising to organising strategy and tools, personal reflections on organising, and how to challenge the far right.
Participants were trade unionists, community organisers, not for profits, academics, migrant workers, journalists and funders.
Regional events
In early 2026, through collaboration with TUC Midlands, we took mini versions of the Conference, NOC on the Road, to Nottingham and Birmingham
Here’s what participants said and did:
— Learn
“Excellent, it was great to network with other people and see what they are getting up to. I have taken away several ideas from the organising and war gaming sessions which I am already using in our union's efforts to organise my workplace”
“Dispersed worker organising was useful to apply to all organising of dispersed sectors including private tenants”
“Seasonal worker session - super informative”
— Get inspired
“Another year of new connections, new ideas and new projects that will shape our year”
“Motivating, inspiring, hopeful chats, commiserations and dreams of plans together”
“Different people to other political education conferences - really nice to see new faces”
— Collaborate
Numerous impactful collaborations have come out of the New Organising Conference, including:
The Work Rights Centre training members of SALT (Solidarity Across Land Trades) in employment law as it affects migrant workers.
Violation Tracker working with Migrants Organise and others to expose poor performance of the Clearsprings housing contractor.
The Workers Observatory working with the Union of Tech and Allied Workers, iWGB, the Worker Support Centre, Work Rights Centre, Migrant Justice Edinburgh and Cat’s Cradle, on three workbooks which will be launched at NOC 2026.
Our sessions on organising against the far right creating a toolkit for local action.