🌍 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:

đŸ”č 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

đŸ”č 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

đŸ”č 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.

đŸŒ± 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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đŸŒ± Join Our Team – Be an Engagement Coordinator! đŸŒ±

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

Our Planet and Climate Change

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

ECO Action’s Partner, SaveEnergy “share offer” to help local people enjoy warmer homes, lower bills AND decarbonise

SaveEnergy help people enjoy warmer homes, lower bills AND decarbonise! 

We’ve partnered with them so they can be even more successful helping reduce the 42% of carbon emissions generated across RBWM from domestic energy consumption. And especially because they make people’s home lives more “comfortable & sustainable”.

We’re running events 11:00 Saturday 26th and 19:00 Tuesday 29th at the Hub. OR join a webinar OR have a chat OR email the team! All information below …

SaveEnergy is: 

  • A community-owned, not-for-profit organisation
  • Run by local people based in Maidenhead
  • An ECO Action & DraughtBusters partner.

SaveEnergy offers: 

  • Home energy assessments & practical actions to help people reduce their energy use
  • Free advice so people enjoy warmer homes, lower bills and reduced carbon emissions
  • AND 20% of services are delivered free of charge to aid people in fuel poverty

Invest for success: SaveEnergy is raising working capital to drive growth and create more green jobs. Investors in SaveEnergy’s Share Offer will help decarbonise more homes, more quickly

  • Minimum SEIS investment ÂŁ100, maximum ÂŁ10,000
  • Eligible investors will benefit from SEIS tax relief of 50%
  • SaveEnergy aim to repay capital from July 2028
  • Share Offer is open from April 2nd to May 16th … so act now and don’t miss out!
  • Details of their Community Share Offer & business plan on  www.saveenergy.coop/share-offer/
  • Note: all investments carry a risk, and we cannot guarantee that capital will be repaid

Hear more: Come to an event, have a chat, join a webinar, email or simply read up!

Events & Information: 

  • We are hosting two ‘SaveEnergy events’: Saturday 26th April 11am OR Tuesday 29th April 7pm(*)
  • To reserve your seat on 26th email here or on 29th email here or just turn up on day!
  • To simply ask a question, get more info, OR arrange a chat email them here
  • On-Line Event: Join an online discussion about their plans and share offer – book on Eventbrite here
  • Supporting Info: Read about their background and their share offer on www.saveenergy.coop

(*) NOTE: to get into the evening event 29th March at the Hub, please go down the alleyway besides McDonalds & enter via the back door of the Hub. See you soon – ECO-Action Team!!

Young ECO Action “FRIDAY CLUB”

Calling all Maidenhead Young Eco Warriors

Drop in to play in our child-friendly Eco Action Hub!

What’s happening?

  • We’ve got singing, story-telling, drawing and a space to play!
  • Bring your Parents or Guardians too!

Who’s it for?

  • From any age: ’young’ up to age 11
  • Parents must please stay & accompany children
  • Please leave a donation if possible for the Hub
  • What Next: Come to the Hub no booking required!
  • Dates: Every Friday through year (some exceptions)
  • Timing: From 10:00 to 12:00 – no booking required
  • Where: Eco Action Hub, Nicholson Centre SL6 1LB

* With tea, coffee and snacks available in the ECO Cafe for a donation.

JOSHUA REYNOLDS MP QUESTIONTIME – NOW 19th April


What’s Happening: It’s our 2nd Birthday this April and we have a special guest in the Hub for a ‘Question Time’ discussion on local, regional and national eco-action topics – with questions which you have the chance to submit.

As it’s our birthday, the ECO Cafe will be open for free drinks & brownies, and there will be other activities & services in the Hub like Share-A-Lot and Draughtbusters, together with Filling Good being open downstairs.

When: Saturday 19th April open from 10:00 with Questions Time from 11:00 – 12:30

Why? Ask questions & discuss with your local MP Joshua Reynolds on Eco-Action topics

How? To let us know you’re coming AND ask Josh a question: please email us here

Where: ECO Action Hub WAM Nicholson Centre Maidenhead

ECO Cafe; Free Tea, coffee, bubbles and other refreshments available from ECO Action Cafe

Keep an eye out for more great events at the ECO Action Hub!

Save Money Save Carbon: Low Carbon techs for your home

When: Saturday 15th March from 11:00 – 12:30

Why? Hear about best approaches to reduce carbon and costs. Get better outcomes from insulation, infrared-heaters, maybe even heat pumps and solar panels. Learn more about renewable energies for your home.

How? Join a panel and open discussions & Q&A with experts: designers, installers & users. Topics will include:

  • Air Source heats pumps, Solar & Batteries (Your Energy Your Way)
  • Loft and cavity insulation / Retrofitting – Kit (SaveEnergy)
  • Infrared heaters – Sue Teasdale (user)
  • Thermal imaging & retrofitting – Toby Knight (designer)
  • Heat Pumps – Ian (Community Member & user)

Where: ECO Action Hub WAM Nicholson Centre Maidenhead

Tea, coffee, refreshments available from ECO Action Cafe

Let us know you’re coming AND ask us a question: please email us here

EXPERTS ANSWER EV QUESTIONS

We held a free event in the ECO Hub “Electric Vehicle Question Time” last Saturday 22nd. Local residents gave questions to our expert panel led by Ginny Buckley.

Ginny is a well known TV presenter from Top Gear, Dispatches & Escape to the Country. Her specialist subject is motoring journalism: She recently set-up www.Electrifying.com where she is CEO.

On the panel were Dug Tremellen (RBWM Transport Policy) & Richard Taylor from Your Energy Your Way, who install EV chargers and also run a small fleet of EV cars and vans.

Questions ranged from optimum charging methods and charging infrastructure through to 7-seater EVs and grid-balancing technologies.

Andrew Ingram, a volunteer at ECO Action who organised the event, said “There were many topics but the answer that surprised the audience most, was that EV batteries will now outlast the vehicles themselves. They are also being recycled”.

The “Guide to Going Electric” is available free at www.Electrifying.com

Come to our Eco Café at the Hub!

ECO Cafe – Enjoy a choice of fresh coffee, tea and hot chocolate!

  • Choose carbon-friendly plant-based oat milk
  • Or if you prefer cow’s milk, pay a small cheeky ‘cow tax’!
  • Sit and relax, maybe work on our free WIFI on comfortable sofas.
  • Browse our displays and build – or refresh – your personal action plan?
  • Check out Filling Good with their full range of zero-waste shopping goodies
  • Or just chat!? Maybe while your children enjoy our “Young Eco” play zone?

All drinks and brownies are offered free but donations are very much appreciated: we’d gently suggest ÂŁ3.00 for coffee and ÂŁ2.00 for a brownie. We look forward to seeing you!

The ECO Cafe: A great place to meet, work, learn … or just have great coffee!

If you want to know more about our coffee, tea or brownies – read on …

  • Our coffee beans come from local company Moneyrow Beans. We have three flavours of coffee bean available, two of which support important causes.
  • First we have Cocagi Femmes, which comes from a group of 250 women, who each have around 320 trees in Rwanda.
  • Our second coffee for cause, is the Arabica roasted Kanyonyi Coffee. Beans for this coffee are produced by farmers that neighbour the gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda and are a part of the Gorilla Conservation Coffee.
  • And of course we have great decaf available for the caffeine-free folks!
  • Tea lovers can sip on Clipper’s Fairtrade blends, featuring plastic-free biodegradable tea bags. Our cafĂ© has a variety of teas to pick, from traditional English Breakfast to herbal teas such as chamomile and peach.
  • Pair your choice of hot beverage with our fantastic Epic brownies! We have vegan and gluten free option for just ÂŁ2 a slice. So far, our cafĂ© has had flavours from original, salted caramel, flake and to the very popular chocolate orange!

Clothes Swaps – HOLD THE DATES

HOLD THE DATE – Clothes Swaps in the Hub!
More information & finalization of dates coming soon.

We’re planning more of our successful clothes swaps in the Hub soon. Our approach will be like last year: clothes to be delivered 2-3 days & the morning before the event, “tickets & tokens” for the Swap-Event on a Saturday

… and lots of chances for you to refresh your wardrobe for 2025 – all while supporting a low-carbon ‘circular economy’ event! Here are the dates to hold – More information soon!

  • Saturday 1st February 
  • Saturday 29th March 
  • Saturday 31st May 
  • Saturday 26th July 
  • Saturday 27th September 
  • Saturday 29th November 

Keep your eyes out on our website and on our Facebook pages! The ECO Action Team.