Activate Richmond - Community Organising Training

Calling all people who want to help solve the climate crisis and protect our nature and wildlife!

Are you feeling inspired to take action and pressure our government to take positive climate action? Are you a bit unsure where to start?

Join us in for an interactive training on the fundamentals of community organising at Activate Richmond!

Change happens when people get engaged and come together to shape the world they want to see. People power can raise our government’s ambition for real, long-lasting outcomes for climate and nature. 

We’re inviting you to build the skills and connections your community needs to speak out for the places we love, build power locally and create positive change with local and national impacts.

What is Activate Richmond?

Activate Richmond will bring together anyone who cares for our environment and climate crisis to discuss, exchange ideas and collaborate to find better solutions. Everyone has valuable experiences, knowledge, and skills in a variety of fields. These differences are the diverse assets required for building people's power, enacting powerful changes, and collaborating to combat the climate crisis. In the Activate Richmond training, we will explore how we can draw upon our own experiences and expertise to help organise our communities and build power locally to help create effective actions that can create change.

Find out about our Activate Training:

What:  A one-day training on the fundamentals of community organising

When: 11th May 2024, 10am - 5.00pm 

Where: Byron Spaces, 69 Jonson St, Byron Bay, NSW 2481

Cost: Activate Richmond is free to attend!

What to expect at Activate Training:

• We’ll share the fundamentals of building and exercising people power including: introduction to community organising; how to build relationships and power through relational organsing; and how to have persuasive conversations and inspire people to action; how to engage with politicians; how to utilise different pressure tactics to advance campaigns
• We’ll delve deep into our strategy to stop digging and burning coal, rapidly transition to 100% clean energy, and protect Australia’s unique natural places – and start to shape a local strategy we can all be a part of.
  
• Hear from Community Organising Program Manager Dan Scaysbrook and National Growth Organiser Drew Beacom
• We’ll also provide lunch, snacks, and plenty of stories!

Come and join us, and let’s act together to save the nature we depend on, and make greater changes in our communities, wider societies and our country. 

Photo: Scott Stramyk