We've listed some ideas for taking action as an individual below. If you've much time available, just pick the more important & easier / quicker ones.
Contact us for help getting going on any of these.
Contact us for help getting going on any of these.
Register to Vote & Vote
The most important thing to do is to register to vote and to vote. An election and a People's Vote are likely soon. Please encourage your remain supporting family & friends to vote, especially the young and those who've recently moved address. It is vital that you follow the tactical voting advice from the People's Vote as this issue transcends party loyalties.
You can register to vote at 17 years old in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, you can register from 14 years old.
You can register to vote if you are: a UK or Irish citizen a qualifying Commonwealth citizen living in the UK an EU citizen living in the UK If you are a student, you may be able to register to vote at both your home and term-time addresses. Pick the one most likely to make a difference.
If you live in England, Scotland or Wales and are not sure if you are already registered contact your local electoral registration office.
Find the contact details for your local electoral registration office Take a moment to say to your parents that you want to stay. Or your grandparents, kids or grandchildren for that matter.
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Join Our Campaign Team
You're also welcome to join our friendly campaign team. There lot's of ways team members can help either publicly or behind the scenes. Often these only take a few miniutes of your time - many hands make light work.
Send a Letter to the Romsey Advertiser
Write a letter to our local paper the Romsey Advertiser. Perhaps if you've had an unsatisfactory or satisfactory response from your MP Caroline Nokes you could use this to publicise it. Share your letter with us to inspire others.
Email our MP - Caroline Nokes
Send her a quick email now - it only need be two or three lines. Short & informal and personalised works best. Maybe just thank her if she's done something you approve of like voting to stop No Deal. Ask her to support a People's Vote with an option to remain. Remember to say you are a constituent and include your address. Maybe forward it us or share it to our Facebook group to inspire others.
Caroline is our representative in parliament. Whether we voted for her or not she is there to listen to our opinions and look after our interests. She was a Remain supporter, opposes a Hard Brexit. Her email address is [email protected] .
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Send a Letter to Caroline Nokes
Write a letter and send it to one of the following addresses. Remember to say you are a constituent and include your address.
Caroline Nokes MP
House of Commons Westminster London, SW1A OAA |
Caroline Nokes MP
Room 4, 13 Market Place, Romsey, SO51 8NA |
Join Us on a Stall
We often have stalls and events in Romsey and nearby. These are normally on Saturday mornings. To hear about forthcoming stalls ask to hear or news by email, like our Facebook page, or follow us on Twitter.
There's all sorts of way you can help on stalls:
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Help Us on Social Media
(Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp)
If you're a user of Facebook, Twitter or Instagram or What's App we could really do with your help. An Instragrammer would be especially useful.
We make heavy use of social media to let people know about our campaign, forthcoming events and ways they can join in. You could:
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Buy us Things
It's amazing what we've done with very little money, but if you could help buy us something from the following list it would be superb.
Facebook Ads (approx £15 each)
Placards (approx £8 each)
Leaflets (approx £10 per hundred)
Megaphone for events and marchs (Approx £30)
Feather flag for events (approx £100)
Tablecloth for Stalls (approx £95)
Sticker printing (approx £30)
Public Address System for stalls (approx £160)
Facebook Ads (approx £15 each)
Placards (approx £8 each)
Leaflets (approx £10 per hundred)
Megaphone for events and marchs (Approx £30)
Feather flag for events (approx £100)
Tablecloth for Stalls (approx £95)
Sticker printing (approx £30)
Public Address System for stalls (approx £160)
Print and Put Up Posters
We could really do with someone to print out our posters and put them up on the fencing outside Aldi. This has been approved by Romsey Town Council. People keep on tearing these down so having someone who could take ownership of putting up replacements would be wonderful. If you can do this please contact us. It would be great if you could also put up posters in your windows or cars or on your bins.
Don't have a printer? No worries - we can print them for you so you just have to put them up. Just get in touch.
Print & Deliver Our Leaflets
Print our latest leaflets and deliver them locally (doesn't have to be your street). Or just give them to passersby at busy spots in the town.
Don't have a printer? No worries - we can print them for you so you just have to deliver them or hand them out. Just get in touch.
Help With this Web Site
Any help adding content or editing this web site would be much appreciated. It's really quite easy (a bit like Word). Help is available to get you going. It would be a good new skill to have. Please contact us to find out more.
Help with Graphic Design
If you're good at graphic design we're always needing new posters, social media graphics, stickers, etc. Please get in touch to find out more.
Help Us Raise Money & Crowdfund
The more money we have the more we can do. We can buy some of the things listed above. If you've had experience of Crowd Funding or just fancy giving it a go we need you. If you've experience setting up Pay Pal for donations that would be wonderful to.
Visit Caroline Nokes at Her MP's Surgery
Pick a topical Brexit subject & make an appointment to see our MP Caroline Nokes at one of her surgeries. Invite others Romsey Better in Europe supporters to join you for even more impact. Her contact details are on her web site contact page.
Help Us Research How Brexit is Impacting Us Locally
If you here of a local organisation being impacted by Brexit please share it with us or diectly on social media. It could be a company loosing business, an organisation finding it hard to recruit or having to cut back services. We can use this information in emails and letters and posts on Facebook.
If you have the time perhaps you could research a local industry such as Sheep Farming and find out how they will be impacted and if anyone can speak for remain from those impacted.
Send out Email Newsletters
If anyone could look after sending out our newsletters that would be wonderful, either by using our Google Groups or perhaps via Mailchimp.
Monitor Our Emails & Ensure We Respond
It would really help if someone could check our email each day and ensure people get a timely response.
Please send us any further ideas you have for action and I'll add them here.