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...tructure Groups recommended amalgamating the work of Structure, Growth and Media Working Groups. ====Remit for the Group====

...g accepted from 12th November 2012 as explained in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreegleUK-Central/message/33127 . b. [[AGM 2012 Media Report]]

...r and are being discussed by the Development group – here is a link to the group https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FreegleDevelopment/info ..., largely around whether people with no experience of moderating a Freegle group should be eligible. (It is within the specification for Board membership.)

...ks required. It is estimated that the IT work will take 4.5-6.5 days, the media work 8 – 10 days and the data analysis/statistics 0.5 to 1 day Edward h ===MEDIA===

'''Freegle UK Central Group: Summary of items of interest''' ====Media opportunities====

The notice for the meeting was sent to all group owner addresses and posted on Central on 24th October - [http://groups.yaho 7. Media Report

The Social Media Team was formed in June 2022. The current team members are shown on Modtool The social media team’s remit is to get all Facebook and Twitter local accounts auto-posti

...s and pages in this section offer you ideas and resources to increase your group profile and membership and grow Freegle as an organisation. ...th 'all things publicity'. All Freegle volunteers are welcome to join this group to share and get ideas.

...to purchase 5,000 more business cards for groups and 2,000 for use by Cat, media. Priority is being given to those Groups who requested them last time and ====Barcroft Media====

...ber has seen some interesting discussions mostly to do with publicity and media. ...or what would be required and some info has been added to the wiki to help group owners to recruit volunteers .

====Link to Group:==== The Freegle Tech Working Group can be found at http://freegle.it/Tech.

'''Managing social media activity''' (see message 57816) ...ard asked for expressions of interest for a paid activity to manage Social Media activity, with responses to be in by end of 5 March (too late for this summ

'''Held online on Freegle UK Central Yahoo Group''' http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreegleUK-Central/message/33214

They discussed technical and media work that can be jointly undertaken in order to benefit Freegle - we can ma ...Rep has now finished. She is remaining as a non voting member on the Reps group.

Papers and Reports for the meeting available at The outcome of this was that Structure Group appointed a small team to investigate setting up a trading arm for Freegle.

...e on Freegle UK Central. You can find this group [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreegleUK-Central/ here] - please join to keep informed. be held on the FreegleUK Central group over the period of 7 days.

==REPORTS== Suggested that we need fundraising guidelines. To be raised on Development group

We’re sorry to say that the Midlothian Freegle group has been deleted by one of the owners and efforts to recover it have been u ====Basic Requirements of a Freegle Group====

...ere approved as a correct record of the meeting - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreegleUK-Central/message/33261 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreegleUK-Central/messages/23880

...from their homepage. Further info can be found in the latest Tech working group report [[Freegle Tech Report 15-11-30]] The mentor team consists of experienced moderators who help new Group Owners to find their feet, help struggling groups and also care for groups

===Reports=== Tina is drafting a role and remit and will discuss this on the Board Group.

===REPORTS=== We voted to approve the Tech and Media budgets.

===AGM 2012 - Media Report=== [[media:Freegle Media diagram.pdf]]

'''Development Group Report September 2016''' Group members 59

STRUCTURE GROUP REPORT ...ting for these positions so if you are interested please join the relevant group and make yourself known.

...for Expression of Interest to develop such a platform were sent out to all group owners with a closing date of 27 October http://freegle.in/EOI ...that the offer is made, almost always by a member who has just joined the group, but when someone responds they are told the that person making the offer h

===REPORTS=== ====MEDIA====

...ne 2011. There were approximately 705 posts on the Freegle Reps discussion group between the currently serving Reps. ...listing the roles and tasks which need volunteers [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreegleUK-Central/files/Task%20Vacancies here].

No further reports. ===REPORTS===

'''Development Group Report : March 2019''' This report is for the period February and March 2019. The group has been quiet these past two months.

Cat has very limited time for media until she has secured paid work ===Reports===

* Reports **Media

===Reports=== *The restricted Media budget is put into the Media budget plans as a start before the revenue from the Newsletter comes in.

===REPORTS=== b.Media budget needs to be written, as does the Volunteer one.

...or links to documents providing reports by role holders or officers (CTO, Media, Finance, etc) * Polls prior to the meeting are conducted via the Freegle Board Group (https://groups.io/g/FreegleBoard/topics at October 2021) and will be recor

'''Group members 58''' Freegle Development is a group where new policies are discussed and voted on and any changes of existing p

===MEDIA=== ...ed to recommend to Central the statement prepared by the Structure Working Group.

The Trading Subsidiary Group have now made their final Report which recommends a future structure for Fr All discussions on this are presently being held on the Structure Working Group and all volunteers are welcome to follow or join in.

===Reports=== We will discuss the details further on the Yahoo Group.

'''Development Working Group Report''' ...group. A poll was held and it was decided that Jacky Barrett would be the group coordinator with Sheila Little acting as deputy coordinator.

====GAT and local group issues==== ...ular discussions in this period covered VPS hosting, a new tech volunteer, group homepages, server capacity, republisher changes, observer role and mailbox

Cat to provide an update in a media report to Central. On 15 September 2015 the team reported to Central that the working group recommended building our own platform. This would enable us to work withou

Freegle Development Group Report Freegle Development is a group where new policies are discussed and voted on and any changes of existing p

===Reports=== ====Media====

...for inclusion. The revenue from the newsletter will be transferred to the media budget. ==REPORTS==

*Cat to do media report for Central, including update on CRD status. ===REPORTS===

Group members 57 Freegle Development is a group where new policies are discussed and voted on and any changes of existing p

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreegleUK-Central/message/30774 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreegleUK-Central/message/30966

* Media Director - Cat Fletcher (part of this, social media activity, is a paid contracting role) ...are reviewed as and when required by the Board and the Development working group.

This report is a very brief summary of the past year. The regular reports from the Reps and working groups throughout 2013 can be found in this Freeg ...d change its structure as a whole. The proposal was endorsed by Structure group, the Reps and Central and is now being put to national poll, as it involves

Media WG and task list-ongoing brainstorm. Media- Carole Sixmum (Hayle and St. Ives)

...rds, banners, travel expenses) and national costs (e.g. IT costs, national media expenses). ...n publicity, but we need local groups to do their bit by researching local media contacts and passing on press releases. This is especially true at the nom

**Media ...the Reps/Board to help ensure sustainability of successful/ongoing PR and media efforts. (based on 5 days at £200 per day)

==REPORTS== John will report on Yahoo group and next month.

Structure Group Report The group currently has 30 members and is open to any member of Freegle Central would

They have switched on the main Grow-Your-Own garden "sub-group" functionality and will be "launching" this at an event on 14 April. Chris ===MEDIA===

...emit for a combination of Structure/Media/Growth groups to the Board - new group name ‘Development. ===REPORTS===

...cism as such but a statement of fact. I am hopeless at doing regular media reports through the year so this this AGM Report is a little too long –sorry abou ...information, suggestions and evidence to researchers (academic, govt. and media);

We have started using Yahoo group polls to make decisions after a group poll should close it and that all polls should have an

Tech Working Group Report December 2010 The group currently has 77 members.

===Reports=== ====Media:====

...amended 9th March 2016 after discussion and recommendation by Development Group was approved by the Board. It has had some slight amendments made during M *To provide short term moderation support for any group for holiday, illness or any other emergency.

...uld be re-written as a blog post which would then be advertised via social media. Unchanged. After consideration, the Board has awarded the paid social media work to Cat, but the risk of losing key individuals remains high.

==REPORTS== c. Finalise contract for Social Media services – Not progressed

...ing a monthly re-use or repair or upcycling competition on the main social media platforms with a small prize for the most liked ideas, to increase our foll Jacky continues to forward 3 funding newsletters to the group – Green Grants machine newsletter, j4b Community Funding and one from Fun

...reed with Cat’s suggestion that she should spend £1,000 of the ring fenced media donation on sponsoring a ten month One Planet Living photographic exhibitio ...nd cover costs associated with reusing waste materials (obtained via local group) for the sites where the photos will be shown (Waste House and Emmaus Brigh

We continue to monitor reports of groups that are abandoned. ...romotion to GO of a mod on a thriving group where the GO had abandoned the group and was not replying to emails. Reps, however, do not have the remit to d

===Freegle Funding group report Sept/Oct 15=== Very busy period for the group, we had a few new members and lots of discussions summarised here:

...ed that loss of IT support would pose an immediate threat, whereas loss of media support would be a longer term problem. ===REPORTS===

*Media Director - Cat Fletcher === Group Affiliation Report ===

A Yahoo group has been set up to discuss the details. The members are: Cat (Media advisor)

'''STRUCTURE GROUP REPORT Start had long and thorough discussions on this, ending with a poll on the group and an entry being

...release for local groups to send out and this resulted in some excellent media coverage in the way of newpaper articles and radio and TV interviews. ...Edward and Cat were doing 20 hour days for a week or so to keep the IT and Media stuff going. It also had knock on effects for the Mailbox, GAT and other a

Action: Cat to mail document link to group and progress. ===REPORTS===

*Head of Media ...members are expected to read all mails on and contribute regularly to this group.

We have changed the format of the report to Central to include reports from individual Reps about what they have been working on during the period ...riety of work, domestic and broadband difficulties. Cat has continued with Media work and Kath is now looking at National Funding oupportunities. Paul is co

STRUCTURE GROUP REPORT POLL QUESTION: Should this group propose a trading subsidiary be set up with the aim of

*What media tasks would fulfil the strategy. ====Local Group Rules====

On the Find a Group page: How to gain Official group|official status page updated (Paul)

...is included £6,400 from our very generous anonymous sponsor, £1,000 from a group volunteer, a £2,500 anonymous donation, and around £7,000 from being feat Our expenditure was £42,366. IT costs were £22,128 and we spent £19,072 on media, publicity, volunteer support and fundraising, £610 on the Cumbria Waste P

...help support local groups we have started this year to fund more national media work - this will take time to pay off, but is vital to make ourselves heard ...r. Cat is also contracted by Freegle to for national publicity and social media work.

*Jacky continues to forward 3 funding newsletters to the group – Green Grants machine newsletter, j4b Community Funding and one from Fun *Dominic told us of Small Charity week social media competitions, but it was felt that it was tricky and the top prize (£450)

...m/neo/groups/FreegleUK-Central/conversations/topics/63739] and sent out to group owner addresses 17.6.17. ...hat you see when you are logged out). They are also sent weekly to Central group members to vote on which to include in the members’ newsletter.

have been 1679 messages on the group during the period (averaging 37 messages * Agreeing an ADMIN for Central regarding ex-Group Owners access to Central.

There remain key areas (IT, media, work with councils) for which we cannot find enough volunteers and therefo ...r. Cat is also contracted by Freegle to for national publicity and social media work.

...unteers, with access details to the meeting being published on the Central group. ...tcher. Cat is also contracted by Freegle for national publicity and social media work.

...y 2012. There were approximately 1600 posts on the Freegle Reps discussion group in that time. ...be on behalf of the national organisation of Freegle, or purely as a local group owner.

Cat has been working on the Spring Into Reuse media campaign and has produced national and local press releases for local Group Back to Freegle Representative Group or [[Freegle Reps Report 2012-02-12]], or forwards to [[Freegle Reps Report

...unteers, with access details to the meeting being published on the Central group. ...tcher. Cat is also contracted by Freegle for national publicity and social media work.

As in previous years, there are key areas (IT, media, work with councils) for which we cannot find enough volunteers and therefo ...unteers, with access details to the meeting being published on the Central group.

*Move to another email based group system, e.g. Google groups ...nnual report, a new CEO, a history of closing other services and anecdotal reports of problems of lack of support from Yahoo. We know that Yahoo Groups do no

*Hide button to link a group to a Facebook group as not working just now. <br> GDPR: Show group memberships history in MyData<br>