Volunteer event stewards wanted for Bristol Green Doors 17-18 March 2012!

We’re excited to announce that we now have 40 homes around Bristol taking part in our next open homes weekend on 17th and 18th March 2012. Homes will open all around the city and in surrounding areas including Portishead and Keynsham.

So please put the date in your diary and visit www.bristolgreendoors.org for more information!

We are also now recruiting Volunteer Event Stewards to assist householders during the weekend and are also looking for people to help us distribute fliers around the city. To get involved in this inspiring community event please visit http://www.bristolgreendoors.org/volunteers. It’s our team of enthusiastic volunteers that help make the event such a success!

We are looking for volunteers to assist us in two main areas:

1) Volunteer Event Stewards to support householders at their homes during the weekend of 17-18th March 2012. The role will involve welcoming and admitting visitors, supporting the householder, engaging with the public, handing out case studies and maps, serving refreshments, directing people around the home and answering simple questions,. If you have a particular expertise in energy advice this could also be an opportunity for you to engage with the public too.This is a really valuable role and volunteers last year had an overwhelmingly positive experience. You can volunteer for either Saturday or Sunday or both. Homes will be open from 12noon-6pm on both days.

2) Promoting the next open homes event by distributing event fliers, maps and posters to shops, bars, markets, notice boards, faith and community centres in neighbourhoods around Bristol to help us spread the word and get as many visitors as possible. This help is needed now.

For more details please and a role description visit http://www.bristolgreendoors.org/volunteers

To register please complete the form at http://www.bristolgreendoors.org/event-stewards-march-2012-sign-form

You can also email gail@bristolgreendoors.org or call Gail on 07811 519522 if you need to know more.

More information about the event below:

We have 40 homes for Bristol Green Doors 2012 and are thrilled with the range participating and the measures that will be on show. At the event visitors will see: a range of low cost improvements; whole house retrofits to near Passivhaus standard; city council retrofits; the latest technologies in action; zero carbon homes; superb solid wall insulation examples; and more!

There are nearly 20 new homes involved, some were visitors to our September 2010 event and we are looking forward to February 8th’s Householder Welcome evening and getting to know them and previous events’ participants a bit more. But for now welcome David, Bob, Jon, Paul, Louisa, Alex, Chris, Charles, John, Gavin, Patrick, Trevor, Michael, Richard, Emma and their partners and families to Bristol Green Doors.

At this open homes event visitors can see the following: Grand Designs homes; city council retrofits; the latest technologies in action; buildings made with straw bales; zero carbon homes; superb examples of external solid wall insulation and more!

You shouldn’t have to travel far to see something. There are homes across the city including: Bedminster and Bishopston; Clifton and Keynsham; Lawrence Weston and Long Ashton; Sneyd Park and St Werburghs; Emersons Green and Easton

We will have lots more information up here over the coming weeks including individual webpages for each home and an interactive map.

In the mean time:

Homes are in the following areas:

Ashley Down
Bedminster
Bishopston
Bishopston
Clifton
Cliftonwood
Cotham
Easton
Emersons Green
Fishponds
Frenchay
Henleaze
Keynsham
Lawrence Weston
Long Ashton
Montpelier
Pill
Portishead
Redland
Sea Mills
Sneyd Park
Southville
St. Werburgh’s
Totterdown
Westbury-on-Trym