Map Community Outreach Volunteer

After learning yourself, your role would be to help groups get started - adding events they are planning, so more people know about the group and their activities, and making use of the network to connect with and share experience with other groups in their local area or similar groups based elsewhere in the country.

The network's groups, and the people that run them vary hugely! Some will find the whole process intuitive and be using the Map functions to connect with others immediately. For others, the technology might be new or they may be a very small group who have worked independently for a long time and are trying out new possibilities.

You will need to be: 

• friendly, encouraging and confident - happy to come alongside others as they develop new skills. 
• interested in climate and nature issues to help you understand the aims of group leaders.

You might also be:

• able to use your local knowledge and connections to introduce new groups to the network and help them register, particularly under-represented groups
• able to use your specialist contacts or knowledge within a specific sector and grow that sector on the Map 

Help and support can make such a difference to a group - helping new people find them, growing networks in a town or across a rural area, building confidence and effectiveness that has positive results for the climate and nature.