Become Greeter: your city or territory, welcoming volunteer

Agnes Nancy Greeters

How to become yourself, Greeter?

Our greeters are not alone in nature, they are part of local communities of at least 5 greeters. They are Associations, Collectives of inhabitants or tourist organizations such as Tourist Office. All follow the same Greeter Charter and the same values. There are two possibilities to join us:

  • 1- Either one of these communities, a Greeter Organization, already exists in your city or region, not far away, then contact them and ask to become a member. See the map of our locations in France under the “Come for a stroll” tab.
  • 2- Either no organization exists near you, then you need to create one! You can group with friends or acquaintances, or campaign with the tourist office of your city or community of communes, so that they set up and manage, with their structure, a group of Greeters affiliated with the French Federation. Contact us by filling out and validating the form below. Thank you

The 4 steps to create a Greeter organization

1- Make contact with FFG

(Federation France Greeters). An elected member of its Steering Committee will become your contact (your mentor”) and will answer your questions. This preliminary study phase ends with your commitment or not to set up a Greeters organisation. For this first contact, fill in and send the form below  (Click here to access the form)

2- Declare your intention to set up

d’une organisation Greeter suivant les règles de la FFG. Vous validez alors votre intention de créer une organisation Greeter et devenez « membre candidat » de la Fédération France Greeters. Ceci est, pour vous, un engagement à accepter les valeurs des Greeters et à rejoindre la communauté internationale. C’est aussi pour nous, un engagement à tout mettre en oeuvre pour aider à cette mise en place en suivant les règles des Greeters et en utilisant nos outils, nos conseils et nos contacts dans les organisations déjà en place.

3 - Build and implement your network

  • Recruit the first volunteer greeters and announce your intent locally. This will take a few months. You’ll need at least five greeters to apply for membership in the Greeters.

  • Set up a dedicated website to present your Greeters service and collect visitor requests. The site must follow certain rules (domain name, English language, logo etc) we will help you to set it up.  

  • You will have to use the greet management system “JEF”, made available to you by FFG and to do so follow the training (tutorial and phone). It will have to interface with your presentation of the Greeter offer on your website. This is done simply by a link to the registration form for a greet.

4 - Compliance, Launch

When you are ready to start, the France Greeters Federation validates the compliance of your Greeters organisation. It’s time to communicate with the local media! The Federation will then take care of obtaining your international label and IGA membership. Your FFG membership fee will be due in January of the year following your implementation of Greeters.

Take your first steps on the Greeters’ adventure. We’ll be there to help you.

Can you indicate your motivation, your personal interest in wanting to organize a Greeter group. Tell us what you would like to do in terms of reception, walks... In what type of structure (association, Tourist Office, Collective etc...)