What we do

Rize Up was founded in 2017 the day the snap election was called, in just six week we managed to organise the following…

We distributed over half a million flyers at clubs, raves, on high streets and in youth and community centres across the country

We worked with and helped fund youth groups across the UK to ensure the people we had speaking to young people were themselves young people from the same communities who were credible

We had street teams in 9 UK cities out and about talking to people about why they mattered and how together they could break the political system

We put on music and club nights with live performances from Old School legends like SkinnyMan and new school kings like Bossman Birdie

We took over @TwitterUK and got musicians like Lily Allen and Professor Green and viral stars like Rants’n’Bantz to spread our message

We opened voter registration hubs on 70 high streets across the UK

We took over KISS FM with voter registration skits playing every hour for the two days leading up to the registration deadline

We launched a music video with grime artist Big Narstie that was viewed over 5 million times online

Our social media reached over 20 million people in the UK

We were all over the radio, on TV and in every major newspaper

We helped young people produce their own content, music and art focusing on the importance of voting

We did all of the above in six weeks with a budget of just £60,000

In 2018 we were invited to run Rize Up in Austria to help register young people to vote against the Far right in the country’s elections. We renamed the campaign 0-5 after the Austrian student resistance to the Nazis who were wiped out before WW2. We worked with the country’s Hip-Hop community and our message was clear, beat them at the ballot box before they wipe us out again. The campaign was a huge success and drove up voter registration in marginalised groups by almost 10%.