Give us some wild flower power

#wildflowerhour has been going for two years and is just one of the best things about social media. But because we started really by accident and have ended up being fabulously accidentally popular, like one of those evenings when you think you’re staying in but end up staying out until the small hours, we need a bit of help.

At the moment, we have two volunteers running this site and the social media mayhem that takes place every Sunday, with a lot of help from the wonderful Louise Marsh at the BSBI, who has done more to grow #wildflowerhour than anyone else.

But to make #wildflowerhour even bigger in 2018, we need some more hands on deck.

Some of you have already offered help with social media work, and this is brilliant. If you think you could help compiling ID requests, answering questions and encouraging new people, then we’d love to hear from you.

But we are also looking for:

• People who fancy curating certain pages, such as our orchids page, our verges campaign page (which supports Plantlife), and any new parts of the site that they can suggest.
• Volunteers with a passion for admin: namely, working out rotas of those who can help each week (we will recruit them so it’s just a case of having that special fun with a spreadsheet that only admin fiends understand);
• Technical whizzes who can offer ideas on how to grow the site and tools to improve it;
• Ambassadors, which is just a posh name for people who know how to get the word out about #wildflowerhour so that we are enticing more and more people to look forward to Sunday night and getting more and more people to realise how wonderful our native flora is.
• Thinkers, which is a posh name for people who have clever ideas about how they think #wildflowerhour can grow, but don’t have much time beyond filling in a form.

Basically, whoever you are, we want to hear from you. #wildflowerhour will always be non-profit, it will always promote the work of BSBI, Plantlife and the Wildlife Trusts (and anyone else who wants our love), and it will always need enthusiastic volunteers who just love plants to help.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if not only did #wildflowerhour trend every Sunday night as it does, but it brought botany to an even bigger audience and made more and more people realise the joy of plants.

If you can help, fill in the form below:

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from #wildflowerhour http://www.wildflowerhour.co.uk/blog/2017/10/22/give-us-some-wild-flower-power/