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Welcome to the campaign!
We’re thrilled you’re here.
Thank you for joining. These campaign are won by a community that keeps showing up, in greater numbers, again and again, until it cannot be ignored. You are now part of how that happens.
Very simply, the point of this campaign is to get a town park for Greystones. We’re very grateful you’ve chosen to help us get there! We have three goals.
First, we need to raise awareness. That means talking to people around us about the need for a park, getting them excited about the idea.
Second, we want to crowdsource information to make sure that we’re meeting the needs in the communities. That’ll involve some workshops and collecting ideas from the streets.
Third, we need to put pressure. This will ultimately be a political decision, both ensuring the land is zoned to be a park and getting the money to fund it. We need to get our local councilors and TDs onboard and make sure they know that this is not only a community request, it’s an electoral matter.
Email campaign.
This is the first ask we are making of you as volunteers. It is also, in many ways, the most important one. The decisions that will shape whether we get a park at all are being made right now, not in some distant planning cycle we can catch up to later. It all depends on us getting this first step right while there is still land on the table to fight for.
Below is a template email ready, along with the contact details for all the Greystones Municipal District councillors. It takes less than five minutes to send.
Your job is to send this email off and then to ask three, five, ten people around you to do the same. Your club teammates. Your neighbours. The parents at the school gate. The group chat you have been meaning to post in. A campaign email from a stranger is easy to scroll past. A message from you, someone they know and trust, is not. That is the difference between a councillor receiving a handful of emails and receiving a hundred.
If you can, ask people to personalise even one line: why they want a park, what it would mean for their family, their club, their weekend. Councillors notice the difference between a form letter and a real voice.
Easy ways to get involved from home
❋ Print posters!
Here are different posters that can be printed off and put up in your local businesses (with their permission), on notice boards in clubs and in your windows.
❋ Get others involved!
If you know anyone that has not signed up yet, get them to put their name down! The more people we have, the more pressure we can put on elected representatives who can make this happen.