Training and Networking

Here you’ll be able to sign up to a range of training and networking sessions for Great Big Green Week 2024. You can also find recordings of previous sessions to watch in your own time.

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Upcoming sessions

We’ll be sharing more training opportunities in 2024, so keep an eye out!

Networking and drop in session

Come along to this networking and drop in session for Great Big Green Week to meet other event organisers and ask any questions you might have!

Do you have questions about hosting an event? Want to know more about the website or using the customisable promotional materials? Or do you want to meet people organising events this year, share ideas and challenges? Come along to one of our networking sessions on Wednesday 20th March – 12:30 – 1:10pm or 6 – 6:40pm.

Overview of the session:

  • 15 minutes – networking in groups
  • 10 minutes – share thoughts, learnings and questions with the group
  • 20 minutes – any questions

This event will take place on Zoom, and you will be sent a zoom link once you have signed up. 

Sign up here

Ensure your Great Big Green Week Event makes a political impact

Are you hosting or attending an event for Great Big Green Week 2024?

Events are a great opportunity to engage with your local politicians and prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) by demonstrating a broad and hopefully diverse mandate for politicians to act on your behalf. If you are interested in involving your local politicians and/or your parliamentary candidates in your event, then come along to this session to find out more.

The session will be run by Hope for the Future, who believe in the power of democratic engagement in calling for action on the climate and nature crisis. They are the UK’s expert in training and supporting people to have impactful interactions and conversations with their politicians.

This session will cover everything from how to make the invite to your politician stand out and sound compelling, to how to plan your event so you’re more likely to achieve political impact.

📅 When: Thursday 28th March, 6:30 – 8pm
💻 Where: Online

Sign up here

Previous training sessions

How to organise a Green Week

If you’re organising an event or Green Week this year, or just want to hear more about Great Big Green Week, this session has an overview of everything you need to know, including:

  • What is Great Big Green Week?
  • How can we swap together for good?
  • Training and resources
  • Registering your events
  • Hear from previous Great Big Green Week organisers, Greener Henley
Watch the training here

How to apply for Community Funding

This session focused on how to apply for funding for your community events and initiatives, including Great Big Green Week activities.

Hannah Picken, the founder of a not for profit organisation Wild Earth Movement, shared her experience of taking part in The Great Big Green Week and sourcing and applying for funding for their events.

We then heard from three funders, who shared their guidance and advice on applying for funding – Conor Rowden, Network Coordinator at Warm This Winter/Uplift UK, Perrine Rauzy, Community Manager at Action Funder and Melissa Eaglesfield, Deputy Director UK Portfolio at The National Lottery Community Fund.

Watch the training

Media Training for Great Big Green Week

This session is a one stop shop for equipping you with the fundamental knowledge and tools to achieve local media hits for your Great Big Green Week events.

We cover topics such as writing press releases for local media, finding journalist contact details, writing key messages and more. The training was be delivered by staff from The Climate Coalition and ONE who have extensive experience working with local, national and international media.

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How to run a Green Week

These sessions give an overview of everything you need to run a local Green Week, including some top tips from groups who organised events in previous years. You catch watch the training sessions from February 2023 and April 2022 here. 

Watch the training from February 2023Watch the training from April 2022

Letters To Tomorrow: Organise your own event

This session gives an overview of Letters To Tomorrow and how you can host your own letter writing events in your community as part of Great Big Green Week this year. This session builds on the content in our Letters To Tomorrow Event Guide which you can access here.

Watch the training

Blackening the Green Movement

In this session Professor Robert Beckford talks about how we can engage more black and brown people within sustainability and climate movements.

Watch the training

Communicating Climate Change

Ahead of your events, you might be thinking about how you can talk to your communities and the people attending your events about climate change and taking action.

Ben McCallan, founding member of Zero Carbon Guildford, talks us through the best ways to communicate the issue of climate change and drive better engagement during your Great Big Green Week activities and beyond.

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Organise a Great Big Green Get Together

The Great Big Green Week (10 – 18 June) and the Great Get Together (23 – 25 June) are both running during June and what better way to be involved by running your own Great Big Green Get Together?

This session covered the ideas behind both campaigns and how you could potentially link them together, either in a single event or a series of events. Both are flexible events which fit naturally together; the Great Big Green Week focusing on protecting the environment while the Great Get Together is all about celebrating what we have in common.

Whether it be using action on climate change to unite different parts of your community, or celebrating a week of action we’d love for your event to be part of both campaigns.

Watch the training

Engaging the Media with The Media Trust

This session, hosted by The Media Trust, will provide you with the skill and confidence to talk to the media about Great Big Green Week and your events. Helping you to bring your stories and events to life in the media!

Watch the training

Email support

If you have any questions about running a Green Week in your area, get in touch with us at contact@greatbiggreenweek.com.