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- Plan your campaign well. Before you
start campaigning write down exactly what you hope to achieve - and
why.
- If your goal is a very big one, break it
down into bits that are easier to achieve. For example, rather than
aiming to make your school the greenest in the world, go for a few
modest improvements, such as energy saving measures, getting
recycling bins around the school or proper crockery in the canteen.
That way you can celebrate sooner.
- List the people or organisations whose
ways you want to change.
- Get your facts right.
- Find out what other people think.
Collect statements from people who agree with the aims of your
campaign and then compile your ‘results’ in a
‘press release’.
If you, or one of your group, has a camcorder you can make a video
to show at assemblies, youth group meetings, council meetings, and
to send to your local MP. It could include a range of people giving
their opinions - approach your friends, a council officer or MP,
local businesses - everyone has got something interesting to
say.
Get someone famous on your side and you’ll almost certainly
attract interest from your local papers. They’ll probably
print a photo of a celebrity signing your petition, particularly if
you can give them a quote from the ‘star’ which
explains your campaign.
This idea was taken from a Friends of the Earth
book called 'Causing A Stink - The Eco Warrior's Handbook'
by Caroline Clayton, published by Bloomsbury Publishing
Plc.
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