We’ve just launched two exciting, brand new volunteer roles, where we are asking you to step up and become RSPB campaign champions to help support our local and national campaigns and give nature a much louder voice.
Campaigning is at the heart of the RSPB. It’s something we’ve been doing since 1889, when a lovely lady called Emily Williamson from Didsbury, Manchester started campaigning to ban the barbaric feather trade.
Since then we have had some outstanding campaign successes such as banning DDT, the horrendous pesticide that got into the food chain and decimated species such as the Peregrine Falcon and the Red Kite. We supported local campaigners against the building of a huge 4-runway airport at Cliffe in North Kent.
Our Letter to the Future Campaign highlighted to MPs how we have a duty to leave a legacy of wildlife and wonderful habitats for our children and our children’s children. This was the most successful RSPB campaign ever with over 350,000 people signing the pledge. Quite simply, we could not achieve any of this without the help of people like you.
Our biggest and best campaign has just begun. Stepping up for Nature is all about many people taking small steps that together will make a big difference. The ultimate aim of this campaign is to halt biodiversity loss by the year 2020, but we need your help. We are very excited to be offering the chance for you to step up with two new volunteer roles.
The first is the Campaign Champion role where you can write letters and emails to MPs, take online actions, use social media such as twitter and facebook and help spread the word about our campaigns in your local area.
The second is the Campaign Champion Activist role where you can do all of the above but also visit MPs and local decision makers to talk to them about our campaigns and the wonderful work the RSPB does.
For more information and details on how you can step up and become an RSPB Campaign Champion please go to www.rspb.org.uk/campaignchampions telephone the Parliamentary Campaigns Team on 01767 680551 or email campaigns@rspb.org.uk
No matter what you think you are, you are always and in all ways so much more!
Brilliant, great to hear they printed it Cat, sure it will generate signatures! Thanks to you too Norm, good to hear that people are generally supportive and happy to sign - you're all making such a difference!
@Cat - that's brilliant better something than nothing, fingers crossed for lots of clicks.
@Norm - great idea, it's the little things in life :)
The local paper printed my marine camapign letter this week. A bit "edited", but at least it got the message across. Let's hope it generates lots of signatures online!
I'm a yoga teacher and have given pledge leaflets out to my students and friends, and dropped a few off at my local college. People are generally happy to sign, especially when, as Cat says, they realise there's no money involved! Even if you don't have time to become a Champion or Activist it's great that there's something quick and easy we can do to make a contribution to the cause.
Like two golden birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends, the ego and the Self dwell in the same body. The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the tree of life while the latter looks on in detachment.
Mundaka Upanishad
Hi Jenny, not in this week's paper, but I've had an email from them saying they hope to include it next week. Fingers crossed!