Our Team - ECO Action WAM

🌍 Volunteer Role: National Action Coordinator

Help Drive National Change for Climate and Nature

At ECO Action, we believe real impact comes when personal actions are matched with collective effort. That’s why we encourage everyone to Take Action across four areas:

Personal – follow a Personal Action Plan
Communicate – talk to family and friends
Community – volunteer locally
National – demand bigger changes from those in power

We’re now looking for an enthusiastic volunteer to lead the charge in that fourth area — National Action.

What You’ll Do

As National Action Coordinator, you’ll help local people amplify their voices and influence national decisions. Your role includes:

🔹 Petition & Campaign Coordination

Gather and maintain a list of credible national petitions (e.g. from Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, The Climate Coalition)
Choose and highlight the most urgent and impactful ones
Store and share them with our supporters via our Google Drive
Identify Climate or Nature Bills due to be debated in Parliament
Encourage our community to contact their MP and sign key petitions

🔹 Collaborate with National Organisations

Liaise with groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth about any national campaigns happening locally
Let our volunteer base know how they can get involved in actions such as leafleting or door-knocking

🔹 Engage Local Politicians

Help us connect more regularly with local MPs, especially Josh Reynolds (Maidenhead) and Jack Rankin (Windsor), and others as appropriate
Explore working with local Labour or other party groups to influence policy
Look for opportunities to encourage political parties to go further and faster for Climate and Nature

What You’ll Bring

Passion for Climate and Nature
Good organisational skills
Confidence with online tools (e.g. Google Drive, email)
Ability to communicate with people and inspire action

You don’t need to be a policy expert — just someone who cares and is ready to help others speak up.

Why It Matters

National decisions shape the future of our planet. As National Action Coordinator, you’ll play a crucial role in empowering local voices to influence national policy — and in doing so, help protect the climate and restore nature for generations to come.

🌱 Ready to Step Up?

Please email us at here with “National Action Volunteer” as the title to find out more and provide more of your details. Thank you.

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🌱 Join Our Team – Be an Engagement Coordinator! 🌱

We’re growing our grassroots movement at ECO Action in Maidenhead – and we need you to help spread the word!

💚 Can you help us:
✅ Find out what’s on in Maidenhead
✅ Choose great local events to attend
✅ Coordinate volunteers to hand out leaflets
✅ Organise local leaflet drops?

If you’re organised, community-minded, and passionate about the planet, we’d love to hear from you!

📧 To see the detailed job description please click here
📧 To volunteer get in touch: click to email us here
Let’s Reduce Carbon, Increase Nature, Improve Wellbeing – together!

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Our Planet and Climate Change – Online Talk

Join us this Earth Day for an inspiring online event! Learn, act, and connect for a greener future. #EarthDay2025

Date and time: Tuesday, April 22 · 6:30 – 7:30pm GMT+1

About this event: This year marks 55 years since Earth Day was established! This year, ECO Action is participating in Earth ACTION Day by hosting an online educational event on climate change. Join us on 22nd April at 18:20 for this seminar as we all take action for this year’s Earth Day!

How to book: Please click on this link to request a ticket from Eventbrite. The link for the event will be sent out via email once you have applied for your free ticket! Any questions about the event, please email us here

WE NEED YOU TO HELP US GET OUR ECO CAFE READY!

We’re building our ECO Cafe in the ECO Action Hub ‘now’: We’re opening very soon. The coffee’s going to be great and the cakes & snacks are fantastic!

HOLD THE PAGE: We’ve had some great response to this post – we might have someone working with us soon … we’ll let you know when you can come and have the first coffee!!

Due to illness, we URGENTLY need someone to help prepare for and set up our new café. This would suit someone who is organised and able to investigate things.

This is a few days PAID work starting immediately. The work can be done mostly at home.

If you’ve an interest in climate & the environment AND COFFEE, we’d love to talk to you. Come into the Hub, reach out to us here, or come to one of our events and see us!

MAKE YOUR JOURNEY PART OF THE HOLIDAY!

One of our ECO Action Team has recently returned from a trip from the UK to Denmark by train! An experienced rail traveller, they prefer trains to planes because they are committed to reducing their carbon footprint. and they enjoy the journey as part of the holiday!

Have a read of their experiences in the document below. It might give you idea and motivation to change the way you travel – and replace the plane with the train!

Our Journey

For our 2024 holiday we wanted to visit family in Denmark. The first thing we did was consult the excellent ‘man at seat 61’ (www.seat61.com) for various sustainable options on how to get to Denmark. Rather than an early start for the Eurostar we decided to try the overnight Stena ferry from Harwich. We understand that Stena is pretty good on the sustainable front.

Most of our Danish family live in Aarhus, so that was our first destination. They wanted to take us to their summer house on the tiny island of Stryno. After that we would want a train to Copenhagen to see more relations and have two days exploring that city. Then returning via Hamburg and the Eurostar from Brussels.

Next we chose somewhere to stop enroute to explore a new place. Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hanover or Hamburg? And on the way back? Hamburg looked to be so interesting we decided to stop there on both journeys including a day excursion to Stade, about 1 hour from Hamburg, as it looked stunning with 17^th century houses built during the prosperous Hanseatic period.

So, how did we do and what was it like?

The Ferry: It was a comfortable crossing with helpful staff and we had a nice cabin with a free mini-bar! I was able to watch the Wimbledon Ladies Doubles on the TV which pleased me greatly. We had a good breakfast and arrived in the Netherlands on time at 8am. Changing trains in Amsterdam we had time for a coffee overlooking the canal and cyclists (own cycle lane!).

Hamburg: an impressive train station with a welcoming committee sitting on the 1^st floor balcony! Our family had come to meet us!

A large city but very attractive, built on the river Elbe with a buzzing port area (great to walk along and have a cruise around it which included the old renovated warehouse area).

They have a newish, spectacular Elbphilharmonie building dominating the port area.

Our relations had enthused about Hamburg’s Miniature Wonderland so on our return trip we visited and discovered that it is similar to our local Bekonscot but indoors and enormous! It was stunning and we spent several hours looking at places we have visited and the miniature interpretation of them.

There was also a Greenpeace boat approaching a Russian ship near the Antarctic – which ticked the box for us! Also in Hamburg I was very pleased to find an exhibition of the famous photographer Henri Cartier–Bresson whom I admire.

Stade: even better than expected!

Trains: all worked as expected. The station platform displays were helpful to inform where to board when you have seat reservations.

The scenery isn’t as spectacular as other train journeys we’ve done such as through the Alps, but our return train from Copenhagen to Hamburg goes over a very long bridge between Jutland and Funen.

Next year we are thinking about travelling to Croatia for two weeks, by train of course!

INTERESTED IN MARKETING? HELP US BE EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL!

We’ve been pushing marketing outreach on social-media, email-newsletter and our website for months. Our marketing team work well – but now we need someone to help us grow more: social / digital marketing, newsletters and all other communications!.

We’re looking for someone with ‘any’ level of marketing skills to join our volunteer team. Could that be you?

If you’ve an interest in climate & the environment, want to ‘do something that makes a difference’ and have even some marketing skills & capability we’d love to talk to you. Come into the Hub, reach out to us here, or come to one of our events and see us!

HELP US BE EVEN MORE SUCCESSFUL WITH EVENTS!

We’ve been busy building & running events for months. Our teams work well – but now we need someone to be our event ‘focal point’ to ‘co-ordinate’ our events, our teams, our partner-events and just ‘pull it all together’.

We’re NOT looking for someone to run events (unless you’d like to do that too): We’re definitely looking for a (volunteer) coordinator. Could that be you?

If you’ve an interest in climate & the environment, want to ‘do something that makes a difference’ and have even some organisational capability we’d love to talk to you. Come into the Hub, reach out to us here, or come to one of our events and see us!

Anniversary Party – What’s On?

We’re hiring – ECO Action Hub Administrator

ECO Action’s mission is ‘to help and inspire local people to do more to address the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency.’ The Hub Administrator is crucial to the successful running of this dynamic centre with its very varied activities.

“Key role: meet & greet all visitors, and be a focal point for volunteers”

Liaise with and arrange volunteers to staff the hub during all our open days
To administer loans from and returns to the Library of Things
To support significant special activities that take place from time to time.

If you are passionate about promoting sustainability and biodiversity and have the attributes and skills to inspire local people and small businesses to take positive action in the Climate Emergency, we would love to hear from you.

Please review the detailed Job Description: Hub Administrator JD
If you would consider this role as a job-share please let us know too!
Please contact us with your background and relevant information on ecoactionrbwm@gmail.com.

We would love to talk with you!

Want to make a difference? VOLUNTEER with us!

Are you concerned about climate change and want to help make a difference?

Want to help other people understand how they can take small steps in their own personal journey to reduce carbon, increase nature, and save money?

Do you have skills that could be useful for the Repair Cafe or the Library of Things?

Become a Volunteer: Help us as we grow – build more engagement with people in the ECO Action Hub, at the events we attend, and at the events we run. There are also admin and business volunteering opportunities.

Find out more about us on our website https://ecoactionhub.co.uk