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 Persuading other people to join.

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

• Joining the Campaign 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
  Our basic leaflet is now only 1 page (2sides of A4). It can be obtained by printing from this web site. If you prefer to obtain our printed copies which 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.
  The price for sets is optimised to make good use of the postage prices (see below).
  6 sets for 60 p;   12 for £1.00


• Joining by post Simple send a letter with your name and address. Also your phone number and/or your e-mail address if you are willing to do so.


• 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.

1. This campaign is not local to Poole, it is national even international
2. It is an exercise in personal networking. This is the central activity of the campaign.
3. We do not pretend that recruiting people is easy. It may be if you have a lot of green friends, but others are more difficult it may take months or years of constantly dripping away.
4. However when/if you have recruited the easy people don’t give up. It is the previously unconvinced who are particularly valuable.
5. When you have succeeded in recruiting someone keep in touch with them about their recruitment. (They may need encouragement and it will also encourage you to further action.)
6. Pick up opportunities, when the conversation comes up, But….
7. Know when to stop. Don’t become a pain. The slow drip drip drip may be effective.
8. Possible techniques:-
• Obviously No 1 is talk to them – face to face – by phone – by letter – by e-mail.
• Have a coffee morning/afternoon/evening.
• Talk at groups of which you are a member.
• Give out our one page leaflet, then ask them how they react.

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, as an organisation and to their members.

Thirdly.
A major objective is to bring influential people on board and persuade them of the need for significant action and change of lifestyle. If you have any sort of personal relationship with influential persons please try to persuade them that they should join. With their permission we would like to 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 would 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 “10 Facts that are Not Widely Appreciated” 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.

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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