Facebook Events

This page will teach you:

• how to create an event
• how to make another page a co-host for your event
• how to add an existing event to your page

Create a Facebook event

The basics

1. Switch to your page profile them go to your landing page (click the Facebook logo).
2. On the left-hand side column, click the "events" button.
3. Click the blue button "+ create new event".
4. Give your event a catchy name (make it self explanatory, for example: XR Manchester Weekly Meeting).
5. Set up a date and time (recurring events will be explained below), don't forget to add an end time so people will know how long your event is.
6. Select "in person or "virtual"
   • if it's in person, you can add an address ("add location")
   • if it's virtual, you can add a link in "external link"
   • in both cases, it's safer to repeat these information in the description of your event
7. Write the description ("what are the details"):
   • What should people expect from this event? How to join? Will there be food? Is it accessible? Should they bring something?
   • You can add emojis to create a better reading experience (but don't abuse them) by copy/pasting them from an outside source (Telegram, Word, an emoji bank...

Recurring events

If you have regular meetings, you might want to set up your event as a recurring one to avoid creating a new event each time.

Select "repeat event" in the menu.

Then select a frequency in the drop down menu.

If your event happens fortnightly, select "custom".

Now select all the dates when your event will happen.

If your event always happen at the same time, add the time to the first date then tick the box "Add this time to all dates", then click "add". Otherwise, add the times for each dates separatly.

Add a co-host to your event

A co-host is another organisation or local groups that are co-organising an event with you. They will be able to modify your event, so make sure you're only adding trusted pages as co-host.

When you're in the process of creating an event, scroll down a little after writing your description and click "add co-host".

Write the name of the page(s) you want to add (for example: Extinction Rebellion UK) or their username (in that case: xrebellionuk).

A username is a unique name you will find when visiting a Facebook page and looking at the URL. It's what goes after facebook.com/

• https://facebook.com/xrmidlands/ 👉 username = xrmidlands

• https://facebook.com/xrUKTalksandTraining/ 👉 username = xrUKTalksandTraining

Some pages have not yet picked a username so they will have numbers as well in their URL.

💡 If you often create events with the same co-hosts, make yourself a spreadsheet with their usernames so you only have to copy/paste them insteas of writing down the name of each page every time.

⚠️ Be careful of selecting the right page. Sometimes Facebook is a bit cheeky and will pop a list on your screen (it might be a glitch, it could be fake pages too), as shown below:

1. Click add co-hosts
2. Write the username or name of page
3. Ignore the pages without the proper logo
4. Only select the page showing up with the proper logo