Replace current copy with ‘There are lots of ways you can get involved in Great Big Green Week! The best place to start is to head to our ‘Get Involved’ page, where you’ll find information on organising an event, getting your school involved, and more.’

To add an event to the website, you’ll need to sign up for an account here.

Once you’ve signed up, you can access your event dashboard, where you can upload and manage your events and local Green Weeks. Once you’ve uploaded your event, we have to approve it so it might not be published on the website straight away. But, if you want to make any changes you can do that anytime by logging in and going to the event manager page. Once it’s uploaded people will be able to find your event on our calendar.

A Green Week is a collection of events and activities in one area.

For example, there might be 15 events taking place in Stoke Newington from 7th to 15th June. These events can all be linked to a local Green Week - for example, ‘Stoke Newington’s Big Green Week’. Think of it like a local market - the ‘Green Week’ is the market, and the ‘events’ are the stalls!

Events don't have to be organised as part of a local Green Week! We see many stand alone events pop up across the country under the Great Big Green Week theme.

Organising a Green Week and organising an event entail different things. You can find out more about organising something for Great Big Green Week in our Organisers Guide on our resources page.

You can sign up to our Community Mailing List here. You’ll get regular updates on training, resources, funding and general support from our Community Organiser, Jaz.

As an event organiser, you will have to take responsibility for the safety and welfare of those attending your event(s), including providing public liability insurance cover as appropriate. You can find some guidance on whether you need insurance here, and some guidance on health and safety, insurance and more, check out parts two to seven in this helpful guide.

All upcoming events and recordings from a number of previous sessions can be found on the training page here.

• Join the Great Big Green Community facebook group.
• Come to a training session – in all our sessions there is a chance to ask questions and connect with other organisers.
• Event listings on our events calendar have contact information about the organiser – just search for events in your location to find other people organising events near you.

Hope for the Future has been working to equip communities, groups and individuals across the country to communicate the urgency of climate change with their local politicians for the last eight years.

At their training you can learn how to communicate the urgency of climate change to politicians and decision-makers during Great Big Green Week and beyond.

Sign up to Hope for the Future Training here.

You can also find resources to help you discuss climate change with your MP, host an event with political impact, and invite your MP to your events on our resources page.

Wales

Our sister organisation, Climate Cymru are supporting community groups in Wales. Do contact them for additional support about Welsh events via [email protected].

Scotland

To find out what’s happening in Scotland more broadly on climate and things you can get involved with, we’re encouraging you to reach out to our sister organisation, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. Their email address is [email protected]

You can also connect with groups and organisers across the UK by taking a look at our events calendar, where you’ll be able to find their contact details.