Last month, I asked Frances Fox, founder of Climate Live (CL), for advice on starting my project, and a few weeks ago, she answered my questions. The image below shows the notes that I made from her advice:
Her answers were extremely valuable to me, as they gave the confidence that I was going about my project planning in the right way, as well as providing useful insight into her decision making and organising process.
One of the most beneficial pieces of advice she gave me, was the fact that she had started a crowdfunder for CL as well, and that is a very worthwhile thing to do. This helped to give me the confidence I needed in order to start my own crowdfunder page (which you can see more about on a previous blog post). Additionally, the way in which she got people involved was encouraging, as it is very similar to what I am currently trying to achieve – although the scales of our projects (at the moment) are quite different – mine being local based to start with, while CL was global from the start.
Additionally the organisational advice she gave me was invaluable – for instance, making sure that I break everything down into really clear sections and roles when I am asking people to help, and have no problem with delegating to prevent overwhelm. I also have kept the fact that Telegram is the best platform for organising on – as it is most accessible – but my issue is that a lot of non-Fridays For Future people don’t use it, nor have they heard of it, which makes it more difficult to use. However, it will still be my preferred platform to organising.
