Growing My Family Nature Club Tips for starting your new family nature club Start with people that you already know. It might be your neighbours, parents from your children’s class, or work colleagues. Make a flyer with some basic information to give to people—your children may want to help you design it. How you design your flyer is up to you. This page includes some sample text that you may wish to use or adapt for your flyer. If you need more copies of the COSS Family Nature Club guide, please contact Gosford City Council on (02) 4325 8222.
Tips for expanding your family nature club
Sample text: COSS Family Nature Clubs are made up of families like mine who would like to introduce our children to the wonders of nature. We want our children to play outside, growing skills and confidence in the outdoor environment. Gosford City Council has given us some information on how to get started, but this is our club that we organise and run ourselves. We do the things we like to do, and go to the places we enjoy. My family will be exploring .................. on ................ Would you like to come adventuring with us?
When your family nature club is established, and you want to expand and invite more people on your adventures, you could try placing a notice in the local paper or on notice boards. You could advertise through the school newsletter or on local parenting web sites. You may want to consider inviting special guests to come and talk to your club about nature topics, or find local community groups who have a program of interesting talks that you can go to. Make sure that all notices and advertisements have the necessary contact details on them so people can contact you to find out more.
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