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Rebels’ UK and Ireland Tour: Meet, Learn and Celebrate with us
Katie and I are headed back to the UK in April and are beyond excited to do a tour of the UK and Ireland to meet you all! After an incredible tour in New Zealand, we can’t wait to meet you. We want to hang out, connect, build community, answer your questions and have fun.
One of the things we love the most about financial freedom and financial independence is that it is NOT a zero sum game. A zero sum game is where someone has to lose for you to win. Think Monopoly, Risk, football, tennis, they are all zero sum games.
Finances aren’t like that! Which means if I help you to sort out your finances it doesn’t affect how my finances perform. We can work together and all prosper and we have seen that through the courses and the amazing Rebel Finance Facebook group that crossed 20,000 members recently, which is insane!
Katie and I started Rebel Finance School in 2020 and 135 people came along and to see how it has grown and helped so many people is so inspiring!
What the heck is a meetup?
A meetup is just a gathering of the community. In New Zealand, with the help of people in each town, we chose a venue, organised a time and waited to see who would show up!
In Christchurch, over 50 people showed up and we made friends, chatted about money and then Katie and I did a 7 minute talk about personal finances, building extraordinary and more. It was such an incredible experience and we all left inspired to connect more and feeling like we had found our community. You just don’t get to have the chats about money, finances and life style design in the same way in your normal life.
Come hang out with the Donegans
We are organising meetups around the UK and Ireland in April and May 2025. We have a plan of dates and times, we just need to finalise venues in each area.
Our plan is to give you some of the new ideas we have developed for the book, play some of the new FI Music Album and share the meaning behind the songs and answer your questions. You can use the links below to sign up to come along.
We did it as an Eventbrite so that we knew roughly how many of you want to come and hang out so we can get an appropriate size venue! 56 people signed up to the Manchester event in the first day so now we know we need a reasonably big place to meet!
Please sign up for a ticket so we can start to plan the spaces where we can all meet:
Help with venues and organising
We used to have a little form on this page asking where you wanted us to come and if you were up for helping us find a venue to hang out in. Lots of you replied and we are going to be reaching out to you in the next few days with the help of Lindsay who is helping us organise the tour.
We are going to need a hand organising a venue in each location. If you are up for helping us find a venue in your town that would be amazing please leave a comment below and we will email you back!
What does helping entail?
It can be as simple as suggesting a café that is easy for people to get to and would have space for us. Or you might know a community space where we can do a talk. It should be fairly easy. We just don’t know the local places and your recommendations will save us countless hours of internet research.
The ideal venue will be somewhere we can have just for our group so we can do a short presentation and play some of the music from our new album which comes out in March.
Maybe it’s a community space, a community hall or something else you have access to. Stick a comment below and we will email you back!
Excited
Katie and I had such an amazing time meeting everyone in New Zealand and are SO EXCITED about coming home to the UK / Ireland and hanging out with you.
30 meetups around the UK and Ireland sounds like so much fun to us. We can’t wait to see you. Then we are off to Brazil for the summer (their winter) where we will run Rebel Finance School. We are planning on launching Rebel Finance School in June 2025. You can sign up for this year’s course, the new notes, emails to go with the course and more here in the Rebel Finance School Page.
Nothing fills out heart more than hearing your stories and meeting you all. Hope to see you soon.
Peace and Pineapples
Alan and Katie
P.S. We have been planning an extraordinary weekend for when we are back in the UK. What we mean by that is a weekend where we run and facilitate a process to help us design and build our own versions of an extraordinary life. We were planning early April but lots of you said you were on Easter Holidays so we have pushed the date back to May and are still looking for a venue. We will announce dates via the mailing list as soon as we have them.
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Loving this!
YAY! Thanks Gill. We are so excited!
Would love to see you in England. I live near the NEC, but can travel to Solihull, Warwick University or into Birmingham (although, I’m not keen on Birmingham 😂).
It would be great to meet you both. Although I’m still in my finance overhaul journey, you too have been instrumental in changing my outlook and overall, my mental health! I no longer feel a failure and I can actually see the future. (Albeit a very slow journey to the future). Both of you are life savers!! Love you both even though I haven’t met you.
Karen, what a lovely message and we would LOVE to see you. We had an amazing meetup last time we were in Birmingham and will come through and say hi! we would love that. And thank yuo for replying. It is comments like yours that keep us going and keep us working on it all! THANK YOU
Wales please
We love Wales! 100%. Are you south or north?
Newtownards,Bangor,Belfast or anywhere in Northern Ireland.I can help suggest some places if needed!
Jenny that would be amazing. Yes to coming to Northern Ireland. I want to do that. This is going to be such an adventure! I LOVE IT. Thank you for replying
Yes I second Jenny’s suggestions. Bangor area or Belfast, I know there are a few others who have been trying to meet up nearby.
Rosemary thanks for replying. Love it. I am putting it into the plan!
Can’t wait
Neither can we! Thanks for replying Bridget!
Ooh Hampshire (how about Basingstoke/Amazing-Stoke 😆) or Reading, Berkshire or London or even Northumberland or Newcastle where I do care work for my Dad. A wide eclectic mix. Can’t wait 😁
We have had a few votes for AMAZINGstoke so far! lol. Katherine we are looking forward to seeing you when we get back. Newcastle has come up a lot too! maybe all three!??? Sending you much happiness Katherine. We LOVE seeing your name pop up!
Looking forward to sitting down with big mug of coffee on Saturday morning and properly reading your two new articles with a view to getting accounts set up. I’ve been cracking through your course videos over the last week and want to share you with everyone I know! Essential viewing! Thank you SO much for your time, your energy and making it fun and understandable. A visit to Oxford would be amazing!
Rebecca, you are awesome. How was the coffee? How were the articles? did you have a hobnob with them? And we LOVE Oxford. We will absolutely come and visit and hang out. That would be amazing. it is on our list. So many nice places for coffee and breakfast too. Sending happiness. A&K
Please come to Bournemouth!
Oh that would be fun! did you stick it in the form too!? Just checking. that isn’t far from where we used to live in Basingstoke! Sending happiness Christina!
oh I do like to be beside the seaside! We will add it to the list and see if we can make it work! We are excited to come and hang out and meet you Christina!
Katie
South East England in Sussex or Kent. Tonbridge/Tunbridge Wells/ Crowborough. Happy to offer accommodation for you – we have a spare room. ;)
Dany you are amazing. That would be so cool! We are 100% coming to Kent to hang out and say hi. Would be lovely to catch up and have a coffee and maybe come and stay! we will update you directly as we plan the route around the UK and firm up dates! thank you for replying. Sending happiness. Alan and Katie
I would love to see you guys in London!
hey Chimwemwe
We will definitely be popping up in London so it’s a date! See you soooooon!
Katie :)
Wales please. Cardiff, Swansea or M4 corridor would be great. Would love to meet you guys. Your guidance has had a huge impact on my financial / lifestyle outlook.
hi Ceri!
We love Wales and will definitely be popping in. Aw we’re so happy we’ve had a positive impact, we love helping! Can’t wait to meet you and hang out
Katie
Come to Sevenoaks!!! Can’t wait to meet you guys in person
Hey Kate! Ooh we will factor that into our planning! Thank you for the lovely message and we’re excited to meet you sooooon!
Yes please! Oxford or Warwick university would be amazing. I really hope these happen! Thanks so much
Beautiful part of the country! We will come and hang out! Thank you for the lovely comment Amy :)
How cool, Edinburgh or Glasgow would be terrific or Edinburgh AND Glasgow lol I can do both 🤣 can’t wait to meet you both xx
Sounds wonderful! After all, it isn’t binary is it! We’re excited to come and hang out! You are lovely Lilian :)
I would love meeting you guys. Have been in London for many years, but I’m now travelling. If I happen to be around, London would be my port of call. Keep on with the brilliant job you are doing! Thanks!
we are excited to meet you too Stefania! Let’s hope it works out in London, if not maybe our paths will cross travelling! Thank you so much for the lovely comment
Come to sunny Suffolk, Woodbridge or Bury St Edmund’s would be great. If you want cheap there are lots of village halls at £10-£30.
hey Maggie! Ooh Suffolk sounds lovely. I went to Bury St Edmund’s as a kid and remember it being very beautiful! Thank you for the lovely comment. Can’t wait to hang out later in the year
We’re near Rushden, East Northampton. There’s the lovely Hall Park, or a number of large half to rent out. But we’d be willing to travel a bit if we can get the childcare, we’d be very excited to come and hang out…. I make a mean brownie or tiffin….. Although the price of chocolate it’s rocketing 😥🙈!!!
We’re near Rushden, East Northampton. There’s the lovely Hall Park, or a number of large halls to rent out. But we’d be willing to travel a bit if we can get the childcare, we’d be very excited to come and hang out…. I make a mean brownie or tiffin….. Although the price of chocolate is rocketing 😥🙈!!!
Victoria, the price of chocolate is rocketing? What is happening? Should we come back to the UK!?? I could always bring some back for you from our travels. Thanks for the tip on Hall Park and the location. Did you put it in the form as well, want to make sure it is captured…….. Sending you happiness Alan and Katie
Another vote for Sevenoaks! But anywhere in West Kent would be great, or London. Can’t wait to meet you guys! 😁🍍
LOVE IT. Sevenoaks got it. We will 100% be coming to Kent!
Please come to Bristol – you’ll love it too
100% we are coming to Bristol! it is a beautiful place. We love it in Bristol! And Pinks Bakery is super dangerous!
Hi guys, we are on the wirral, across the Mersey opposite Liverpool. Happy to help find a venue. We will be in Australia in April, surprising my son as not seen him since February 2024 when he went over there to travel . We will see you in Newcastle in May though, my eldest son lives there, and happy to help with a venue there too. My son, Connor, used to be in hospitality and has many contacts which will be useful. Looking forward to meeting you
Lyndsy, what a lovely message. Thank you. The trip to Australia sounds so much fun. We went last year and LOVED IT. it is gorgeous there. YES please to help finding a venue. We planned so many places and it is a big project so your help would be invaluable. message us hello@rebeldonegans.com and if you have suggestions and places that would be AMAZING. We have 40 signed up to Liverpool and 44 signed up to Newcastle so far in the first ay which is crazy. THANK YOU. We are so excited to meet you in Newcastle and hear about Australia! Alan and Katie
Please come to Bristol – you’ll love it too
Dublin would be great.
That is awesome. Yvonne asked in the comments too! we want to come to Dublin and hang out!
Just completed the form for Dublin, happy to help find a venue. Really cant wait for an in-person meet up!
Hey Yvonne, that is awesome. I am 100% coming to Dublin to hang out! I can’t wait! Thanks for filling out the form. This is epic
I didn’t realize you planned meetup tours as you’ve been travelling around! I need to be reading your blog more;). We are also full time travelling right now but are not going to be in Europe until the fall. Hello from South America! I hope we can join a meetup someday :).
hey hey! thanks for commenting. We love meeting people and connecting as we travel! it is so much fun. We are in Mexico right now. Not as far south as you. We love South Africa and spend lots of time in Colombia! it is gorgeous there. Would love to hang out one day! Alan
are you planning any tours in the states
Ram, we should do. That would be amazing. We will be Cincinnati next month. Do you live near there. We could plan a meetup there. We are going to Econome too. Where are you from? Alan
I saw you were going to Stranraer in Scotland , it’s my home town although left Many years ago although still go to visit family .
There is a community centre called the Ryan centre on Fairhurst Road , a lot of local things are held there . I would start there otherwise there are other meeting places . Good luck
Rosi, you are amazing. Thanks for replying. We will look that up! YAY. Thank you for helping us with a starting point. You are amazing. Alan
Happy to help find a venue in Sheffield.
Carolyn, that would be amazing. YES please! Sheffield has 45 signed up so far so maybe 50 or 60?? Do you have anywhere in mind? know anyone? THANK YOU so much
Let us know your thoughts. Alan and Katie
Have you found a venue for Cardiff?
How many is it to seat?
Kelly, you are so kind. We haven’t yet. Cardiff is up to 64 signups so far. So maybe 80 ish people which is amazing. We are so excited to be coming to Cardiff. If you think of anywhere please tell us! you are awesome. peace and Pineapples. Alan and Katie
Hi Katie and Alan
I tried to sign up for the west London event on 30th May but it says unavailable, does that mean it’s already fully booked? Unfortunately I can’t make the 21st May eventually in London as Wednesday is the one evening I work. I hope there will be more London events ☺️
Many thanks for the course, it gave me much courage to take charge of my finances.
Constanze, we just found out the venue holds more people! YAY. Grab a ticket now. Can’t wait to hang out with you
Alan
It would be a bit off the beaten track but Addlestone has a community centre that can be rented out for a small fee. It would be great to meet you and thank you in person, even if I’ve only completed the first session.
Maite, Thank you so much for the tip. We will google that and have a look! Maybe you can squeeze episode two in before meeting us as well? YOU ROCK. Alan and katie
Thank you Alan and Katie, more people like you is what this world needs. Bless you
Mary! that is a lovely comment. We are so excited to be travelling all over the UK! Sending you happiness
Hi, I noticed a bit of a gap in East Anglia! Any chance of a Cambridge visit?
Thanks for all you do!
Laura, what a lovely message. There are so many gaps! lol. We wish we could get to every single place in the UK but I think we have run out of time this visit. 30 meetups in 60 days is pushing it even for our energy! Sorry. Next time we get back I will put Cambridge on the list. I love Cambridge. Such a beautiful place
If you want to add a date in London I have a very cool venue you could use in the Vauxhall area. Could cope with 50 or so people.
Owen, that sounds awesome. Will have to be next tour as we have maxed out our days this time in the UK! I really appreciate you reaching out as that would be amazing.