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 its time to make it ‘official’.
To form a new Greenpeace network, you need to have six or more people submit their details as active supporters committed to forming a new local network. You also need to identify at least one person as the coordinator of the network, although this is a role best shared between 2 people. One of these coordinators, or another active supporter, will also need to take on the role of developing a local online presence.
Once you have formalised the arrangement of the local network, Greenpeace will support you in a number of other ways, and will start to make campaign materials available to you.
Greenpeace campaigns are centrally organised and perhaps quite restrictive in order to focus the efforts of the active supporter network on a particular target, and to protect the efforts of other Greenpeace supporters and staff around the world.
As a campaigning network there are many more opportunities for people to get involved in a wide range of activities to help us win our campaigns. Local networks are welcome to organise fundraising events and public outreach events, although most networks almost exclusively focus on campaign projects.
‘Formal’ launch meeting
Please do not take the idea of a ‘formal’ meeting too seriously, as it’s just as important to keep the meeting light hearted, fun, and short.
However if there are sufficient numbers of people, that you think there’ll be at least six people keen to sign up as active supporters then plan an agenda as follows:
- Introductions
- Talk through how Greenpeace active supporter networks work – use the FAQ
- Talk through what active supporters so – again use the FAQ
- Ask people what sort of things they want to do
- Ask people if they are willing to commit to becoming an active supporter, and helping form a new local network
- If yes, and if there are enough committed people, please complete the webform submitting the relevant details
- In either case please also plan your next event, as an active network needs momentum, and don’t forget the social time at the end of the meeting.
After the meeting
You may need to chase a few more details (like usernames) from the active supporters keen to form the new network. Once you have submitted the details the Greenpeace outreach team will be back in touch, and will sort out an induction for the new network coordinator (s).
After the details are sorted Greenpeace will make a range of other resources available, including basic resources (banners, tabards, tablecloths etc), regular campaign materials packs and access to a more detailed webgroup focused on network coordination skills.
Step 7 - Submit your details as an Active Supporter Network
or return to
Step 5 - Organise a medium sized event
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