These stickers have been put on the doors of the Barclays Bank in Frome and mark a change in direction for the environmental demonstrators Extinction Rebellion.

They show the group's latest campaign moving to Money Rebellion, launched today (November 23).

The XT group plans to use financial disobedience to redistribute debt owed to unethical banks as 'donations' to support those on the frontlines of environmental ruin.

As well as traditional street protests, there will be guides for people to move to more ethical banks, and stickering groups, such as that seen in Frome.

In addition a growing group of small businesses have pledged to divert a portion of their tax to invest in green, sustainable business models and initiatives.

Rod Hart, now retired from his East Anglian plumbing, heating, & electrical business, is quoted : "We need a healthy financial sector which balances growth and trade. Small businesses are trampled on, despite their role as the lifeblood of the economy. Taxes are being used to maintain a business-as-usual economy, plundering the planet and destroying the future for all. It's time for small businesses to join together and recognise their potential in the push for positive change."

Extinction Rebellion said : " The collective influence of the UK's 5.9 million small businesses is vastly underrated, considering they comprised 99.3% of the total business population and 52% of private sector business turnover in 2019. "

Dr. Gail Bradbrook, Extinction Rebellion co-founder, said: "We need a grown-up conversation about why our political economy is killing life on earth. We want people from all walks of life to work with experts to redesign our economy through legally-binding assemblies. This economic system needs us to survive – but if it's willing to trade our lives and planet in the name of short-term gain, then we don't need it.

"We want an economy that grows health and well-being, not debt and carbon emissions. An economy that prepares and protects us from the climate crisis, not fuels it. An economy that shares resources instead of prioritising a few. An economy that lets all of us live."