Mentors Team Report 2018 02

The Team

Mentors currently have 10 members and 1 Board observer:
The Team: Alison, Christian, Cooky, David, Diz, Jacqui, Jo and Leon. Sheila Little is the team coordinator Wanda is acting co-coordinator.
Andy Ludlow is our Board observer.

This Month

Mentors have now completed the last of the caretaker group moves to native hosting. We are now concentrating on helping other groups to move before the September deadline. We are also starting to actively recruit for some of the groups in our care.

If any groups would like help to move, please mail us at mentors@ilovefreegle.org and we will be happy to help. At the moment there is no queue, we can move groups quickly and without fuss.

Three groups were declared abandoned this month:

• East Staffordshire has been cared for by Jean for some time and attempts by mentors to contact the owner failed.
• Hastings was declared abandoned. The owner went missing before Christmas and hasn’t responded to emails, so Hastings is now in the hands of the Mentor team.
• Ashford was disaffiliated after the contact procedure failed to get a response and it became clear the group has not been moderated for some time, so it is now in the care of Mentors.

Mentors received an email from the owner of Durham telling us that he no longer wished to moderate the group, so we are now caring for Durham.

Some groups have been taken off the list:

• The Ashfield moderator has taken on the Nottingham group as the permanent new owner.
• Cambridge and Fenland have been taken permanently by the current caretakers

There are currently 41 groups listed on the caretaker lists needing new owners and 11 that are being cared for temporarily. These include some groups currently being cared for by non-mentors.

Since the lists began, permanent new owners have been found for another 42 groups.

Caretaker Groups

We come again to the list of groups under the care of caretakers. If any mod teams local to any of these groups would like to take any of these groups on as permanent new owners, please contact us.

• Amber Valley
• Ashford
• Berwick upon Tweed
• Blaby
• Blackwater and Yateley
• Blaenau Gwent
• Brewood, Codsall and Stretton Freegle
• Bridgend
• Bromsgrove
• Cannock Freegle
• Carlisle
• Chelmsford
• Cheslyn Hay Freeworld recycling
• Colchester
• Dudley – Black country Freeworld
• Durham
• East Staffordshire
• Eastwood
• Flintshire
• Gateshead
• Hemel Hempstead
• Hastings
• Isle of Wight
• Livingston
• Moray
• North Warwickshire
• Purbeck
• Scunthorpe
• Skegness
• Skye and Lochalsh
• South Derbyshire
• South Tyneside
• South Lincs
• Swansea
• Taunton
• Thrapston
• Warminster
• Warrington
• Washington
• Wrexham
• Yeovil

Looked After Groups

The list below is of those who just need a little help or are just being cared for temporarily. We are NOT looking for any new mods on these groups. This list is only to give an idea about what mentors are doing .

• Ealing
• Hackney
• Hunts
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Leamington and Warwick
• New Forest West
• North Down
• Plymouth
• Redditch
• South Down
• Stafford

Mentors are here to help groups any way we can. If you are struggling to cope, please let us know, we are happy to help out.

mentors@ilovefreegle.org

Mentor team

Links

• Mentor Team Remit
• Previous report Mentors Team Report 2018 01
• Following report Mentors Team Report 2018 04