How Do You Start A Local Freecycle Group?
• Go to Freecycle.org (you can click on Start a Group and find these same instructions). • Is there already a group for your city or county? If there is, it, of course, has priority. • Are you still interested in setting up a group even though there is a similar group in your area? In cases such as these, the New Group Approver (the NGA – this is the person who will review your initial application) will need to work with our Group Outreach and Assistance team (hereafter referred to as GOA) to determine another course of action for the area you propose. NGAs can’t approve a potentially overlapping group or a duplication of an existing group’s area. No exceptions. Also note: there cannot be more than one group per owner and the owner must, of course, actually live in the area that the proposed group covers. • Do you think Freecycle is a really cool community resource? Do you wonder why nobody thought of doing this before? Maybe you could be the moderator of a new Freecycle group. Remembe
• First find out if there is already a local group in your area. Visit the Freecycling Group Finder, the Recycling Group Finder or the Freecycle.org group directory to search for groups near you. • If there is already a group area, you can still start a new group but you should make is focus on serving a smaller (or larger) area than the existing local groups so that you aren’t directly competing with the existing groups. • Once you’ve decided to start a group in your area, you’ll need to choose which website you want to run your group from. The leading sites for running freecycling groups are trash nothing!, Freegle (UK only), Full Circles (Canada only) or Freecycle.org. Each site has it’s own advantages that you should research before choosing. And creating a new freecycling group is only the first step! To really make your group succeed, you’ll need to promote your group to gain members and foster and nurture the group to help it grow.
• First find out if there is already a local group in your area. Visit the Freecycling Group Finder, the Recycling Group Finder or the Freecycle.org group directory to search for groups near you. First find out if there is already a local group in your area. • If there is already a group area, you can still start a new group but you should make is focus on serving a smaller (or larger) area than the existing local groups so that you aren’t directly competing with the existing groups. If there is already a group area, you can still start a new group but you should make is focus on serving a smaller (or larger) area than the existing local groups so that you aren’t directly competing with the existing groups. • Once you’ve decided to start a group in your area, you’ll need to choose which website you want to run your group from. The leading sites for running freecycling groups are trash nothing!, Freegle (UK only), Full Circles (Canada only) or Freecycle.org. Each site has it’s own advan
