Supporting the Campaign

If you are prepared to support the Campaign, please:-

• Register your support with us. We need to know how it is going.
• You may like to donate, though this is not our main aim.
• See also “How to Get and Keep in Touch”.
• But   Please,  Please,  Please!    Get involved in Propagating the Campaign.

We ask you to register since only in this way can we monitor the progress of the Campaign. To do so please send us your name and address. In doing so you give us permission to add your details to our database. This will be used only for the purpose of the campaign. Currently we have no plans for further output – however in the future it may be desirable to have the details of supporters.

You may register with us either by using the electronic registration below or by mail (see How to Keep in Contact).

If you are local to Poole please consider joining PA21, as well as registering for the campaign, and you may like to get involved locally. If you are not local you may like to give us a donation. We suggest only £1-00. For logistical reasons you will NOT receive a receipt for donations!

What will happen to the money?

We don’t know!

Initially we will use it to print leaflets, set up and maintain our web-site and post office boxes etc and pay postage and other expenses. If lots of money comes in we will use it as and when we need to support the campaign. It may become necessary to employ someone to support the campaign. When we have a surplus it will be used for some purpose to promote a reduction in global warming. We will report on this web-site what is happening about membership and money.

We are at this stage quite a small organisation. If this campaign takes off, as we hope it will, we may become logistically overloaded. Initially we will try to respond to letters and phone calls but this may become too onerous.

This web site is intended to be our main means of communication with supporters. We will publish news bulletins when there are items to report.

You can get in touch with us by e-mail, we do not guarantee a fast response. Our e-mail address is:-
tgws@hotmail.co.uk

• Registration can be done now, using the automated system above.
• Donations may be made by visiting any NatWest branch and paying a donation directly into our account (Sort code 52-10-20 account no 1102 6383).
• Obtaining more Leaflets can be done by printing from this web site, or you may prefer to obtain our printed copies (it may even be cheaper! And they are on re-cycled paper!). This must be done by post.

Leaflet costs

We have a very good deal for the printing of our leaflets. So if you are able to collect them from us you can get them for 10p each. However if you have to obtain them by post this increases the price. The price for sets is optimised to make best use of the postage prices (see below). If you should want a lot carriage costs become a smaller proportion of the total cost.

Leaflet sets are optimised for postage. They cost:-

• 6 sets for £1-20;
• 12 sets for £2-20;
• 25 sets for £4-50;
• 73 sets for £12-30;
• 145 sets for £21-70;
• 370ish sets for £47-00.

Postal Contact.  You can perform all these activities by post. You can use the slip from the leaflet insert sheet or simply write with the required information..

• To Register we need your name and postal address, and a 'phone number and an e-mail address if you have them and are happy to give them.
• To Donate or to pay for leaflets from us, send a cheque/PO payable to “TGWS Campaign”.

Our address is:-   TGWS Campaign, P.O. Box 6244, Poole, Dorset, BH18 0AF.    Please mark letters either “Admin” or “Secretary” see below.

We would like factual corrections to the leaflet from people who know, but be aware that there are conflicts in the “facts”, i.e. not every expert agrees as to what the facts are, so we have to make judgements.

If you persuade your MP or some well known or significant person to back the Campaign, please let us know so that we can verify their support, and ask for formal endorsement.

Phone. You may attempt to get in touch by phone by ringing:- Tony Hamilton on 01202-462782. You may get an answerphone.

Firstly. This campaign, which is national, is essentially an exercise in personal network building. This is the activity in which we most want supporters to engage. Every supporter is on a thread started from us in Poole (or directly from the web-site). For the network to grow it is vital that every supporter persuades at least one other person to persuade at least one other person to carry that thread of the network forward – otherwise that thread dies. Preferably of course for the network to grow rapidly you should persuade 2 or more (say 100!), thus initiating new threads.

Please promote the campaign to your friends, relatives and contacts – scan your e-mail address book or your Christmas card list and choose likely candidates. But do try to choose likely people to start with – people who are have a concern for the world and/or for other people. Setting out to try to bring about a major change in world view is very hard. It needs saying that some people will not get it, for all kinds of reasons, do not fall out with them over this! Just accept it and try to find someone who is more open to persuasion.

It is a personal contact activity – the campaign leaflet is a tool to provide an opening for conversation and to give supporters the facts and ideas to use to persuade. Junk mail means that we have a built in resistance to leaflets and most people are not convinced of ideas by their literature (a few can be). Most people are much more likely to be persuaded by other people. Contact can be made either electronically or by snail mail. We believe that sending them the leaflet (and Insert page) is a good way to start. Even if they are computer literate, the leaflet contains facts, which can be easily read and re-read, documents on the computer tends to be scanned, skipped, and perhaps forgotten. So our suggestion is send them a copy of the leaflet by post and then follow it up by personal contact. When people do agree to join do not leave it there, maintain the contact over time, to encourage them in finding someone else to carry the network on. Obviously, there has to be a subtle balance between encouragement and becoming a nuisance. Hold back if you feel that you are becoming counter productive, you can always speak to them again at a later date. Also be constantly on the alert for opportunities to start new threads, or to bring groups, or influential people into the campaign. Give yourself a gold star for every four working threads you manage to initiate! Obviously since the Global Warming problem is urgent the faster we can grow the better so please make a start ASAP.

Secondly.   We hope that the campaign will be endorsed by community groups – particularly those that are involved with environmental issues. If you are a member of, or have contact with, such a group approach them and see if they will endorse the Campaign. For a community group we suggest a donation of £5-00. At this stage we do not intend to approach the big national organisations. We need some credibility. We hope that this will follow naturally when we have brought a good number of people and their local groups on board.

Thirdly.   Our major objective is to bring influential people on board to the extent that they endorse the Campaign. So if you have any sort of personal relationship with influential persons please try to persuade them that they should come on board. With their permission we will publish their names on this web-site.

Recruiting.

Recruiting is quite a drawn-out process, though it may not take all that much active time. It may well involve:-

1. Sending your friend/contact a leaflet.
2. Contacting them - and finding they have mislaid it!
3. Contacting them again after they have found and read it, and then talking about it.
4. Leaving them to think for a time.
5. Contacting them again and hopefully getting their agreement to join. This may require more than one contact.
6. Contacting them again to encourage them to get on and do it!

Experience has shown that this may easily take 4-6 weeks or more.

When you have persuaded them to join you enter on phase 2 – helping and encouraging them to recruit someone else. This is likely to be even more protracted – it could go on for months - but probably does not involve a lot of your time. Make occasional contact to ask how they are getting on and perhaps suggest people or groups they might try to contact.

Thread-Making.

We hope you will continue to attempt to initiate new threads whenever the opportunity presents itself (or you have time to spare!).

Person A persuades person B to persuade person P. Person B should then persuade person P to persuade someone else ………. etc. Keeps a thread alive:-

now B's responsibility.

Or preferably each person persuades several to persuade someone else. Person A persuades persons B, C and D each to persuade someone else ………. etc. Grows 1 thread to 3:-

We particularly want MPs, and other politicians (councillors and MEPs) to declare that they will put Global Warming at the very top of their agendas. When we have got 350 MPs who genuinely endorse our position we may have cracked it – for the UK. We will display the names of MPs and MEPs who have endorsed the campaign on the web site. If your MP has not done so please approach him/her through letters or by attending their surgeries. Again present them with the leaflet and set about persuading them to commit to the campaign statements. Don’t be thrown if they say they have already been approached simply have another go. We need to apply pressure. Ask them to investigate the facts for themselves and arrange to go back after a suitable interval for their answer. We must keep on until they do begin to see that the problem is serious. If you are successful in persuading them get in touch with us so that we may ask them for a formal endorsement (see “How to Get in Touch “ above). If your MP has committed to the campaign go along and congratulate and encourage him/her.

A similar approach should be made to councillors and MEPs. All these people need to be persuaded that major action needs to be taken now. At a later stage we may also wish to identify councillors – though because of the large numbers involved this may have to take a different form.

1) You do not believe that Global Warming is a major threat.

We suggest you investigate further.

2) You believe the government will sort it out.

We do not think so, until we (the people) push them to do so.

3) You do not care.

That is your right.

4) You have too many other problems to worry about.

Fair comment – perhaps when things are easier.

5) You do not feel that anything you can do will make any difference.

We do not believe that.

6) You are already doing all you can in other ways.

We suggest that this campaign can run alongside others, very comfortably – it simply involves engaging with your contacts.

7) You do not want to change your lifestyle

Congratulations for being refreshingly honest.

But perhaps you could a bit.

And it would not all be bad – see “Finally a Vision”.

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