In the past few weeks, I have been working hard on the rewilding side of the project – building up a platform that I will be able to start doing in-person campaigning with in the new year. As I mentioned previously, I created an instagram account, where I would be able to showcase my project and provide a platform for creating change as well.
The main thing I have been focussing on is creating content to share on the instagram – largely based around the petition that I have launched, as creating the petition gives me a perfect launch point to campaign around. My goal was to reach 100 signatures before I started campaigning in person, which I have now reached (!!), and so after the Christmas holidays, I will be able to start campaigning in earnest. My plan is to start very locally, campaigning at my local council – having meetings with them and seeing if we are able to create some wilder spaces within the local environment. However, at the same time, I am planning on also reaching out to a wider group of people and organisations – therefore creating both a local, on the ground, and a further reaching section to my project. The below list are a few of the people and organisations who I want to contact:
Initially, I will contact them via email, and then see if I can set up zoom calls and meetings with them, in order to try and create connections there, which I can utilise in the project. I have written a draft of the email, which I am currently waiting to have someone read through for me and check that it is good to send (gets my point across clearly and concisely), and then I will start sending emails out and gaining traction on the project!
Additionally, I have also been working hard on the instagram, trying to create content for it every day, in order to keep people interested and to build up a following, but I will expand more on this in a later post.
