If you live in London, there are a tantalising number of actions planned for Saturday. Unfortunately, you can't go to all of them so this blog will allow you to make your choice.

Library This action will be transforming a Barclays branch into a library. Bring books, cake and banners and enjoy banker's story time and poetry reading. Meet Soho Square at 11am.

Stand-up Occupation This action will be transforming a Barclays branch into a Stand-Up Comedy gig. The incredible Josie Long and Nick Revell will be providing the laughs. Turn up for a chuckle. Like the Library Group, meet in Soho Square at 10.45am and look for the orange umbrella.

Breakfast Club In Camden, children and working parents are set to lose three-quarters of local authority funding for breakfast clubs, after school clubs, holiday schemes and play centres. Be at the Barclays bank at 16-17 Tottenham Court Road at 10am ready to hold a breakfast club. Bring kids!

Books not Bombs Activists from London Campaign Against the Arms Trade will be transforming a Barclays branch into a library in protest against Barclays' massive investment in the arms trade. This is a flashmob, so be inside the Barclays in Piccadilly at 11am ready to sit down and start reading when the librarians say "shhhhhhh"

Library in Elephant and Castle Turn Barclays on the Walworth Road into a library. Bring books and banners. Time tbc.

Library in Brixton Meet 11am at Barclays on 463-465 Brixton Rd. Bring a good book!

Carnival Against Cuts - Lewisham A massive day of anti-cuts protest in Lewisham, one of the most inspiring local anti-cuts mobilisations in the country. Some of the day will focus on Barclays but there is lots more too.

Congratulations on posting up a Big Society Bail-In. There are just a couple of days left before the day of action!

Some tips to make sure your action is as good as it can be:

• Put a time and meeting place registered on our website
• Set-up a twitter account and tweeted about your action
• Set-up a Facebook event and invited everyone you know
• Emailed your local anti-cuts group, or any other group that might be interested.
www.falseeconomy.org.uk has a good directory of contacts.
• Contacted your local media (important!). Call up the local paper and the local radio station, have a quick chat, give them your phone number and invite them along. Email ukuncut@gmail.com if you have any media queries.
• Printed off flyers from http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/targets/banks/barclays
• Made any additional banners and signs
• Felt proud!

These Cuts Are Personal A report from the Islington Bail-In by Molly Solomons

I’m not a hardened activist and to be honest, it would have been a much better start to this morning wrapped up in my duvet, ignoring the world and the cuts, but enough is enough. Yes, I’m wildly pissed off about the cuts in general and the whole big society sham. But for me this is personal. It’s a personal attack on my family. So, I grabbed my book and headed out to join all the other pissed off protesters, then I got a text from my mum, ‘Stay safe, very proud of you’. And that is why I bothered getting out of bed – for my family and all the other families whose lives are being ripped apart by these cuts.

My mum works for a University and organises research grants and general management. It was inevitable really, but I was still shocked got when I got the call a few weeks ago, ‘Sweetheart, my jobs been cut’. At first I was sad for my mum, who has worked so hard for the last ten years, and has single-handedly raised me and my brother who has severe autism. But then the sadness became anger when the realisation hit that she has to fight off about 300 people to get a job. If she’s unemployed that’s one thing but the worry that my brother’s disability living allowance might be cut is overwhelming my mum and me. He’s 21 and lives in a house with 5 other disabled adults. He has a full time carer and loves living there. It’s expensive but he needs it. And if this support is axed, I really don’t know what we’ll do. He can’t read or write and has the mental age of a 2 year old but he still has to be taken to the local Job Centre to prove that our family is not ‘scamming the system’.

I didn’t do politics at University and admittedly I would struggle to explain the details of macro-economics and how it relates to the financial crisis (who can!). But what I might lack in detailed knowledge of political and economic theory, I compensate with the feelings inside that what this government is doing is just wrong. It’s wrong to cut disability living allowance to those that need it to survive. It’s wrong to make people with disabilities feel like they are criminals and cheats. And it’s wrong to smash our society into a million pieces, whilst the bankers’ pockets are filled with fat bonuses and companies are allowed to evade taxes in off-shore accounts.

Sometimes I feel disheartened to the extent I just don’t know what to do. This is what I’ve done so far: I’ve written to my MP, I’ve moaned in pubs, I’ve cried, I’ve signed petitions and I’ve thought about running away from it all. But after despair, all that is left is action. And there is loads of action out there. So see you on the streets, I’ll be there this weekend, and the next, and the next, standing up for what’s right for my family and yours.

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