People & Planet resources available to Group Support Volunteers
General GSV Resources
Check out the Sixth Form Groups’ Guide — our comprehensive online guide to running 6th form student campaigns from starting a group to building a strong team and running an effective campaign.
There are loads more resources available to you including:
Extra posters, campaign guides and action cards
Workshop packs — scripts and activities to aid GSVs in delivering workshops
Specific advice on how to run groups and campaigns in schools
Specialist knowledge on how best to achieve campaign aims (e.g. details on how to cut carbon emissions in your group’s college, getting Fairtrade vending machines in schools or how to get in contact with Fairtrade wholesale suppliers)
For any of the above resources, please feel free to contact Jo. Alternatively, you can contact us via phone on 01865 245678.
Useful Websites
A variety of organisations have have free resources for youth leaders on their websites:
CAFOD
Oxfam
Fairtrade Foundation
Christian Aid
Facilitating Meetings
Loads of great tools and suggestions on facilitating campaign meetings can be found here:
Fairtrade / Trade Justice Resources
For further information on the Fairtrade and trade issue see:
The Fairtrade Foundation
The Trade Justice Movement
The World Development Movement
Oxfam
Christian Aid
For alternative arguments on the trade issue see:
The International Monetary Fund
The World Bank
The World Trade Organisation
The Economist
Climate Change:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — an in-depth but very informative site on the science and impacts of climate change
The Tyndall Centre, one of the UK´s major research centres on climate change
Centre for Alternative Technology
Global Warming: The Greenpeace Report
Jeremy Leggett
Oxford University Press (1990)
ISBN: 0192177818
The “Up in Smoke” reports published by the IIED, which show the link between climate change and economic development: * General report, 2004 * Report of Africa, 2005
The Sceptical Environmentalist (an alternative viewpoint)
Bjorn Ljomberg
Cambridge University Press (2001)
ISBN: 0521010683
This list is not exhaustive!
If you know of any other good websites or books, please let us know and we’ll pass the information on to other GSVs.
