Freegle Wiki wiki https://wiki.ilovefreegle.org/Welcome_to_the_Freegle_Volunteer_Wiki MediaWiki 1.43.0 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Freegle Wiki Freegle Wiki talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk 0 1 57305 57301 2026-07-19T12:00:00Z RevampBot 243 Wiki revamp: restructure & modernise 57305 wikitext text/x-wiki <div style="border-bottom:3px solid #3AB54A;padding-bottom:8px;margin-bottom:4px"> <span style="font-size:1.7em;font-weight:700;color:#2d8f3a">Freegle Volunteer Wiki</span> </div> <p style="font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.5;color:#333;max-width:780px;margin:6px 0 4px"> The handbook for Freegle volunteers - how to run and moderate your local community. Tap a section to open its guide. </p> == Running your community == <div style="display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fill,minmax(300px,1fr));gap:0 24px;margin:6px 0 18px"> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🚀 [[Getting Started|Getting Started]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Orientation for anyone new to Freegle: what it is, its history, its aims, and the basics every...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🏘️ [[Running Your Community|Running Your Community]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Day-to-day running of a local Freegle community: naming, local initiatives, events, the Freegle...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🛠️ [[Moderating with ModTools|Moderating with ModTools]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Using ModTools itself: members, postcodes, photos, statistics, support tools, rippling, and the...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">👥 [[Members, Discourse & App|Members, Discourse & App]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Member-facing features and the tools volunteers use to reach them: Freegle Direct, the Freegle...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">✉️ [[Standard Messages|Standard Messages]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Ready-to-use message templates for replying to members in common situations, from welcomes to...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">📢 [[Broadcast (Admin) Messages|Broadcast (Admin) Messages]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Template group-wide admin messages moderators can send: seasonal notices, reminders, and...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">📦 [[Handling Specific Items|Handling Specific Items]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Policy and guidance on specific categories of item (and animals) that come up again and again:...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">⚠️ [[Difficult Situations & Problems|Difficult Situations & Problems]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">How to deal with awkward members, scams, spam, cross-posting, no-shows, emergencies and other...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🛡️ [[Safety & Safeguarding|Safety & Safeguarding]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Personal safety for members and volunteers, safeguarding concerns and contacts, and health &...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">📣 [[Promotion & Publicity|Promotion & Publicity]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Promoting your local group: social media, PR materials, branding, campaigns and publicity...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🌱 [[Recruiting & Training Volunteers|Recruiting & Training Volunteers]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Finding, training, and retaining moderators and other volunteers, plus support available to...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🤝 [[Councils, Partnerships & Data Protection|Councils, Partnerships & Data Protection]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Working with local councils and other organisations, and Freegle's data protection obligations...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🔗 [[Partners & Other Sites|Partners & Other Sites]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">How Freegle connects to the wider world: integration partners like Trash Nothing and LoveJunk,...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">📚 [[Reference & Help|Reference & Help]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Help using the wiki itself, contact details, and other reference material.</div> </div> </div> == How Freegle is run == <p style="color:#666;max-width:780px;margin-bottom:0">Current organisational reference: how Freegle is structured, its roles, remits, policies and teams.</p> <div style="display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fill,minmax(300px,1fr));gap:0 24px;margin:6px 0 18px"> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">📋 [[:Category:Organisation & Governance|Organisation & Governance]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">How Freegle is run today: roles, remits, policies, procedures, teams, finance and the wider...</div> </div> </div> == Archive == <p style="color:#666;max-width:780px;margin-bottom:0">Historic records only - board minutes, AGMs, dated team reports and superseded material - kept for the record and out of the way of the day-to-day guidance.</p> <div style="display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fill,minmax(300px,1fr));gap:0 24px;margin:6px 0 18px"> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🗄️ [[:Category:Meeting Reports|Meeting Reports]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Dated team and group meeting reports (Tech, Structure, Development, Reps, Mentor, Start,...</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🏛️ [[:Category:AGMs & Board|AGMs & Board]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Annual General Meetings, board minutes, and board/director elections, year by year.</div> </div> <div style="padding:9px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee"> <div style="font-size:1.14em;font-weight:600">🕰️ [[:Category:Historic Documents|Historic Documents]]</div> <div style="color:#666;font-size:1em;line-height:1.45">Older press coverage, past campaigns, superseded social-media pages and other historic...</div> </div> </div> == More == * '''[[Project:Wiki reorganisation|About the 2026 reorganisation]]''' - what changed, and why. * [[Reference & Help|Help &amp; editing the wiki]] &middot; [[:Category:Freegle Wiki|All sections]] 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