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The handbook for Freegle volunteers - how to run and moderate your local community. Tap a section to open its guide.
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=WELCOME TO ALL FREEGLE VOLUNTEERS!=
== Running your community ==
This is your wiki, a collection of information and advice that hopefully will make your valuable job as a volunteer much easier.
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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The simplest way to find information in this Wiki is to use the the search box in the sidebar on the left. That remains in place, whichever page you are on.
== 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>
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<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>
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== 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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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All words highlighted in blue on each page will link you to another, so just click away and find out all sorts of things.
== 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]] &middot; [[:Category:Archive|Full archive]]


 
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This site contains information for and from those volunteering with Freegle both locally and nationally. The information is organised into three main portals:
 
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Would you like to know more about this
thing we have made together called Freegle?
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Look here for lots of information and ways
to get involved with your organisation.
 
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You have a great local Freegle group,
but could you do with some help?<br/>
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This section is packed full with 'everything
you need to know' about running your group
 
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word out there about Freegle?<br/>
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Look here for ideas and resources to
promote Freegle locally and nationally.
 
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| style="text-align: right; padding-right: 50px;" | [[Running Your Local Group|more details...]]
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== Quick Links  ==
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New to the Freegle Volunteer Wiki? Here are some links you might want to visit.
 
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| [[ Image:FDWikiLogo.png          | 60px | link=Freegle Direct ]]
| [[ Image:Contact-details.png    | 60px | link=Contact Details            ]]
| [[ Image:Freegle-rock-cafe.png  | 60px | link=Freegle Rock Cafe          ]]
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| [[ Image:Modplugin-and-more.png  | 60px | link=Mod Plug-in                ]]
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=== More Quick Links ===
 
 
*[[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>'''
* Group addresses - current addresses for all affiliated groups [http://direct.ilovefreegle.org/allgroupscsv.php], including Yahoo groups, shortlinks, Direct, Facebook and Twitter.<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 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.
 
(If you want to know more about how the wiki works, look at [[Freegle Wiki]])

Latest revision as of 12:00, 19 July 2026

Freegle Volunteer Wiki

The handbook for Freegle volunteers - how to run and moderate your local community. Tap a section to open its guide.

Running your community

Orientation for anyone new to Freegle: what it is, its history, its aims, and the basics every...
Day-to-day running of a local Freegle community: naming, local initiatives, events, the Freegle...
Using ModTools itself: members, postcodes, photos, statistics, support tools, rippling, and the...
Member-facing features and the tools volunteers use to reach them: Freegle Direct, the Freegle...
Ready-to-use message templates for replying to members in common situations, from welcomes to...
Template group-wide admin messages moderators can send: seasonal notices, reminders, and...
Policy and guidance on specific categories of item (and animals) that come up again and again:...
How to deal with awkward members, scams, spam, cross-posting, no-shows, emergencies and other...
Personal safety for members and volunteers, safeguarding concerns and contacts, and health &...
Promoting your local group: social media, PR materials, branding, campaigns and publicity...
Finding, training, and retaining moderators and other volunteers, plus support available to...
Working with local councils and other organisations, and Freegle's data protection obligations...
How Freegle connects to the wider world: integration partners like Trash Nothing and LoveJunk,...
Help using the wiki itself, contact details, and other reference material.

How Freegle is run

Current organisational reference: how Freegle is structured, its roles, remits, policies and teams.

How Freegle is run today: roles, remits, policies, procedures, teams, finance and the wider...

Archive

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.

Dated team and group meeting reports (Tech, Structure, Development, Reps, Mentor, Start,...
🏛️ AGMs & Board
Annual General Meetings, board minutes, and board/director elections, year by year.
Older press coverage, past campaigns, superseded social-media pages and other historic...

More

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