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	== More ==		== More ==
	* '''[[Project:~~Proposed structure~~\|About ~~this revamp~~]]''' - what changed, and why.		* '''[[Project:Wiki reorganisation\|About the 2026 reorganisation]]''' - what changed, and why.
	* [[Reference & Help\|Help & editing the wiki]] · [[:Category:Freegle Wiki\|All sections]] · [[:Category:Archive\|Full archive]]		* [[Reference & Help\|Help & editing the wiki]] · [[:Category:Freegle Wiki\|All sections]] · [[:Category:Archive\|Full archive]]

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	#~~REDIRECT~~ [[~~Welcome~~ to the Freegle ~~Volunteer~~ 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:1.02em;line-height:1.45;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:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🚀 [[Getting Started\|Getting Started]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Orientation for anyone new to Freegle: what it is, its history, its aims, and the basics every...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🏘️ [[Running Your Community\|Running Your Community]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Day-to-day running of a local Freegle community: naming, local initiatives, events, the Freegle...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🛠️ [[Moderating with ModTools\|Moderating with ModTools]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Using ModTools itself: members, postcodes, photos, statistics, support tools, rippling, and the...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">👥 [[Members, Discourse & App\|Members, Discourse & App]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Member-facing features and the tools volunteers use to reach them: Freegle Direct, the Freegle...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">✉️ [[Standard Messages\|Standard Messages]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Ready-to-use message templates for replying to members in common situations, from welcomes to...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">📢 [[Broadcast (Admin) Messages\|Broadcast (Admin) Messages]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Template group-wide admin messages moderators can send: seasonal notices, reminders, and...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">📦 [[Handling Specific Items\|Handling Specific Items]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Policy and guidance on specific categories of item (and animals) that come up again and again:...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">⚠️ [[Difficult Situations & Problems\|Difficult Situations & Problems]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">How to deal with awkward members, scams, spam, cross-posting, no-shows, emergencies and other...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🛡️ [[Safety & Safeguarding\|Safety & Safeguarding]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Personal safety for members and volunteers, safeguarding concerns and contacts, and health &...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">📣 [[Promotion & Publicity\|Promotion & Publicity]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Promoting your local group: social media, PR materials, branding, campaigns and publicity...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🌱 [[Recruiting & Training Volunteers\|Recruiting & Training Volunteers]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Finding, training, and retaining moderators and other volunteers, plus support available to...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🤝 [[Councils, Partnerships & Data Protection\|Councils, Partnerships & Data Protection]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Working with local councils and other organisations, and Freegle's data protection obligations...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🔗 [[Partners & Other Sites\|Partners & Other Sites]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">How Freegle connects to the wider world: integration partners like Trash Nothing and LoveJunk,...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">📚 [[Reference & Help\|Reference & Help]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">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:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">📋 [[:Category:Organisation & Governance\|Organisation & Governance]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">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:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🗄️ [[:Category:Meeting Reports\|Meeting Reports]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Dated team and group meeting reports (Tech, Structure, Development, Reps, Mentor, Start,...</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🏛️ [[:Category:AGMs & Board\|AGMs & Board]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Annual General Meetings, board minutes, and board/director elections, year by year.</div>
			</div>
			<div style="padding:7px 2px;border-bottom:1px solid #eee">
			<div style="font-size:1.02em;font-weight:600">🕰️ [[:Category:Historic Documents\|Historic Documents]]</div>
			<div style="color:#666;font-size:.85em;line-height:1.3">Older press coverage, past campaigns, superseded social-media pages and other historic...</div>
			</div>
			</div>

			== More ==
			* '''[[Project:Proposed structure\|About this revamp]]''' - what changed, and why.
			* [[Reference & Help\|Help & editing the wiki]] · [[:Category:Freegle Wiki\|All sections]] · [[:Category:Archive\|Full archive]]

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	~~__NOTOC__ <!-- magic word to disable TOC for this page -->~~		#REDIRECT [[Welcome to the Freegle Volunteer Wiki]]
	~~This is a collection of information aimed at making your valuable job as a volunteer much easier.<br>~~
	~~The simplest way to find information in this Wiki is to use the search box in the sidebar on the left. That remains in place, whichever page you're on.<br>~~
	~~All words highlighted in blue on each page will link you to another, so just click away and find out all sorts of things.~~

	~~== Portals ==~~

	~~This site contains information for and from those volunteering with Freegle both locally and nationally. The information is organised into three main portals:~~

	~~{\| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="" align="center"~~
	~~\|- style="font-size: 1.5em; vertical-align: bottom;"~~
	~~\| style="padding-right: 50px;" \|~~
	{\|
	~~\|- style="vertical-align: middle;"~~
	~~\| style="" \| [[ File:Freegle-heart.png \| 60px \| link=The Freegle Organisation ]]~~
	~~\| style="padding-left: 5px;" \| '''The Freegle<br/>Organisation'''~~
	\|}
	~~\| style="padding-right: 50px;" \|~~
	{\|
	~~\|- style="vertical-align: middle;"~~
	~~\| style="" \| [~~[ ~~File:Manage-local-group.png \| 60px \| link=Running Your Local Community ]]~~
	~~\| style="padding-left: 5px;" \| '''Running Your<br/>Local Community'''~~
	\|}
	~~\| style="" \|~~
	{\|
	~~\|- style="vertical-align: middle;"~~
	~~\| style="" \|~~ [~~[ File:Megaphone-man.png \| 60px \| link=Publicity ]]~~
	~~\| style="padding-left: 5px;" \| '''Freegle<br/>Publicity'''~~
	\|}
	\|-

	~~\| style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 50px;" \|~~
	~~Would you like to know more about this~~
	~~thing we have made together called Freegle?~~
	~~<br>~~

	~~Look here for lots of information and ways~~
	~~to get involved with your organisation.~~

	~~\| style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 50px;" \|~~
	~~You have a great local Freegle community,~~
	~~but could you do with some help or ideas?<br/>~~
	~~<br/>~~
	~~This section is packed full with 'everything~~
	~~you need~~ to ~~know' about running your community~~

	~~\| style="padding-top: 5px;" \|~~
	~~Are you interested in getting~~ the
	~~word out there about Freegle?<br/>~~
	~~<br/>~~
	~~Look here for ideas and resources to~~
	~~promote Freegle locally and nationally.~~

	\|-
	~~\| style="text-align: right; padding-right: 50px;" \| [[The Freegle Organisation\|more details...]]~~
	~~\| style="text-align: right; padding-right: 50px;" \| [[Running Your Local Community\|more details...]]~~
	~~\| style="text-align: right;" \| [[Publicity\|more details...]]~~
	\|}

	~~== Quick Links ==~~

	*[[Contact Details]] - Freegle contacts
	*[[Admins]] and [[Sample Messages]] - Need to send an admin or an individual message to a member and stuck for words? Here are some examples
	*[[Central Groups]] - Information about the national Freegle discussion groups'''<br>'''

	~~== This Wiki ==~~

	~~Don't like the word 'wiki'? Worried about the amount of information here? Don't be!~~

	Just think of this as lots of pages in a book, a book written by Freegle people for Freegle people. Flick through it by using the blue highlighted link words, use the search box to find stuff and get back to the front cover easily by clicking on 'Front Page' on the left hand navigation bar.

	~~(If you want to know more about how the wiki works, look at [[~~Freegle Wiki~~]])~~

	~~[[Category:Articles~~]]

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	(If you want to know more about how the wiki works, look at [[Freegle Wiki]])		(If you want to know more about how the wiki works, look at [[Freegle Wiki]])

			[[Category:Articles]]

Jacky at 07:11, 29 October 2022

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	This is a collection of information aimed ~~to make~~ your valuable job as a volunteer much easier.<br>		This is a collection of information aimed at making your valuable job as a volunteer much easier.<br>
	The simplest way to find information in this Wiki is to use the search box in the sidebar on the left. That remains in place, whichever page you're on.<br>		The simplest way to find information in this Wiki is to use the search box in the sidebar on the left. That remains in place, whichever page you're on.<br>
	All words highlighted in blue on each page will link you to another, so just click away and find out all sorts of things.		All words highlighted in blue on each page will link you to another, so just click away and find out all sorts of things.

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	\|- style="vertical-align: middle;"		\|- style="vertical-align: middle;"
	\| style="" \| [[ File:Manage-local-group.png \| 60px \| link=Running Your Local ~~Group~~ ]]		\| style="" \| [[ File:Manage-local-group.png \| 60px \| link=Running Your Local Community ]]
	\| style="padding-left: 5px;" \| '''Running Your<br/>Local ~~Group~~'''		\| style="padding-left: 5px;" \| '''Running Your<br/>Local Community'''
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	You have a great local Freegle ~~group~~,		You have a great local Freegle community,
	but could you do with some help or ideas?<br/>		but could you do with some help or ideas?<br/>
	<br/>		<br/>
	This section is packed full with 'everything		This section is packed full with 'everything
	you need to know' about running your ~~group~~		you need to know' about running your community

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	\| style="text-align: right; padding-right: 50px;" \| [[The Freegle Organisation\|more details...]]		\| style="text-align: right; padding-right: 50px;" \| [[The Freegle Organisation\|more details...]]
	\| style="text-align: right; padding-right: 50px;" \| [[Running Your Local ~~Group~~\|more details...]]		\| style="text-align: right; padding-right: 50px;" \| [[Running Your Local Community\|more details...]]
	\| style="text-align: right;" \| [[Publicity\|more details...]]		\| style="text-align: right;" \| [[Publicity\|more details...]]
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	*[[Contact Details]] - Freegle contacts		*[[Contact Details]] - Freegle contacts
	*[[Admins]] and [[Sample Messages]] - Need to send ~~a group~~ admin or an individual message to a member and stuck for words? Here are some examples		*[[Admins]] and [[Sample Messages]] - Need to send an admin or an individual message to a member and stuck for words? Here are some examples
	*[[Central Groups]] - Information about the national Freegle discussion groups'''<br>'''		*[[Central Groups]] - Information about the national Freegle discussion groups'''<br>'''

Jacky at 09:07, 3 February 2021

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	This is a collection of information ~~and advice that hopefully will~~ make your valuable job as a volunteer much easier.<br>		This is a collection of information aimed to make your valuable job as a volunteer much easier.<br>
	The simplest way to find information in this Wiki is to use the search box in the sidebar on the left. That remains in place, whichever page you're on.<br>		The simplest way to find information in this Wiki is to use the search box in the sidebar on the left. That remains in place, whichever page you're on.<br>
	All words highlighted in blue on each page will link you to another, so just click away and find out all sorts of things.		All words highlighted in blue on each page will link you to another, so just click away and find out all sorts of things.

Jacky: /* This Wiki */

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This Wiki

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	Don't like the word 'wiki'? Worried about the amount of information here? Don't be!		Don't like the word 'wiki'? Worried about the amount of information here? Don't be!

	Just think of this as lots of pages in a book, a book written by Freegle people for Freegle people. Flick through it by using the blue highlighted link words, use the ~~index (~~search ~~boxes)~~ to find stuff and get back to the front cover easily by clicking on 'Front Page' on the left hand navigation bar.		Just think of this as lots of pages in a book, a book written by Freegle people for Freegle people. Flick through it by using the blue highlighted link words, use the search box to find stuff and get back to the front cover easily by clicking on 'Front Page' on the left hand navigation bar.

	(If you want to know more about how the wiki works, look at [[Freegle Wiki]])		(If you want to know more about how the wiki works, look at [[Freegle Wiki]])

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	*[[Contact Details]] - Freegle contacts		*[[Contact Details]] - Freegle contacts
	*[[Admins]] and [[Sample Messages]] - Need to send a group admin or an individual message to a member and stuck for words? Here are some examples		*[[Admins]] and [[Sample Messages]] - Need to send a group admin or an individual message to a member and stuck for words? Here are some examples
	*[[~~Working~~ Groups]] - Information about the ~~central~~ Freegle ~~Working Groups~~'''<br>'''		*[[Central Groups]] - Information about the national Freegle discussion groups'''<br>'''

	== This Wiki ==		== This Wiki ==