Volunteer

The Barmah-Millewa Collective is a small group of active volunteers. We would love you to think about joining us!

We also employ a campaign coordinator, a fundraiser and 2 community campaigners who are available through the week for further information about how you can contribute to this camapign.

As well as ongoing campaigning roles, you may rather choose only to be involved in one of the discreet tasks listed below.

Please contact the campaign coordinator Jono if you are interested helping on (03) 9419 8700 or jonathan.lanauze[a]foe.org.au .

*Distribution of brochures, posters and other info

We regularly do mailouts to our supporters and need assistance in stuffing envelopes! This job comes acompanied with a meal and a campaign update by one of the campaigners.

We distribute posters, brochures and stickers to workplaces, cafes and other suitable places.

Estimated time: 1 evening/weekend session (3-4 hours), but whatever you can do to help - we've got lots of stuff to get out there to get people to know about the campaign.

NEXT MAILOUT: WEDNESDAY 5th SEPTEMBER 2007, 6pm at Friends of the Earth.

ph 03 9419 8700 or barmah[a]foe.org.au

*Stalls

We are holding information stalls on weekends and some weekday festivals. If you can help out setting up and tlaking up the campaign to folks then give us a call.

*Media monitoring
Compile a folio of 2007 media clippings covering the Barmah-Millewa Campaign, to be used in promoting our work to potential funders.

We try to keep a copy of all media clippings for our records and for our funding bodies. We have a list of the regional newspapers we are regularly featured in.

* Estimated 2 hours work/fortnight at the State Library of Victoria (Melbourne CBD) copying and compiling the articles.

*Forest Logging Monitoring

The collective regularly organises to visit various logging coupes in the Red Gum areas along the Murray. We check out the coupes for braches to the Forestry Logging code and record them for reporting purposes. This job contributes to our campaign to stop logging in red gum forests.

Generally we travel up to Barmah or Gunbower forests to undertake logging monitoring, however if there are people interested in other areas this is also possible.

Estimated time: travel: 3 hours, overnight (at least) field trip