Student campaigns network People & Planet are working in partnership with Oxfam to engage Manchester's sixth formers in campaigning on social and environmental justice issues. They are looking for volunteers to help establish and support student campaign groups in their community by becoming People & Planet mentors.
People & Planet sixth form groups campaign to make positive changes within their schools, as well as getting involved in national campaigns. Students have persuaded their schools to install Fairtrade and organic vending machines, lobbied catering staff to make Fairtrade products more widely available, improved their schools' recycling facilities and much more. Mentors accompany a member of People & Planet staff to an introductory Fairtrade workshop in a local school, and then attend students' fortnightly meetings, helping them develop campaign ideas and ensuring those ideas are turned into action. Mentors are needed across Manchester, as well as in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Oxford, Reading, Gloucestershire and Surrey. For more information, or to volunteer, contact P&P before 17 Sept.
Dave or Ruth, People & Planet (01865 245 678, [email protected])
There is a People and Planet group based in Manchester University Student Union. Their first meeting of the new term is on Tues 14 Sept at 7pm in the Jabez Clegg pub, off Oxford Road.
Emma ([email protected])
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