Welcome to the seven step plan to create the core of a new local Greenpeace group/network.
The plan talks you through what’s involved, helps you organise a few events as a Greenpeace supporter (perhaps with some friends) and leads you to the ‘formal’ process of becoming an official Greenpeace group/network.
The plan makes frequent references to both the Greenpeace/active pages and the FAQ/Help section so please familiarise yourself with both.
Coordinating a local Greenpeace network is fun, empowering, a great way to meet new people, learn new skills and to help Greenpeace win campaigns in interesting ways. It also requires common sense, commitment, some luck, taking responsibility for deciding what you want to do, and ............read more
2. Get Active as an individual
Greenpeace organises trainings and opportunities for individuals to help with our work. Even if your eventual goal is to setup and coordinate a local network, getting involved as an individual will help start your relationship with the organisation.
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3. Organise a small event
Greenpeace supporters often organise fundraising and public outreach events to support Greenpeace’s work. As an individual Greenpeace supporter, it’s time, ideally with some help from a friend, to organise your first small event............read more
4. Organise a preliminary meeting
After your first event plan a preliminary meeting. Publicise the meeting everywhere, and invite your contacts from your first event. Ideally phone them before the meeting, or txt them (don’t rely on email)
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5. Organise a medium sized event
If your meeting is a success there’s now a few of you, and so as a small collective of Greenpeace supporters it's time to organise a slightly larger event. The principles are the same as organising a small event, however you will have more people to help with the details, and on the day............read more
6. ‘Formal’ process to start a new Greenpeace network
By now you’ve organised 2-3 local events, and a couple of meetings with sufficient interest to give you confidence to organise your formal launch meeting. Until now you’ve also been acting as an individual Greenpeace supporter, or a small collective of Greenpeace supporters, now it's time to make it ‘official’............read more
7. A Greenpeace Active Supporter network
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.......
If you'd like to see what active supporter networks across the UK are up to, then please click on any of the webgroups below. Or if you're more interested in getting active as an indvidual then why not organise a community fundraising event for us, or become trained as a volunteer political lobbyist, or campaign online.
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