Freegle Reps Report 2013-05-31

Covering period up to 13 June 2013

http://freegle.in/accounts

MEDIA

(Also covers April)

UKWIN (UK without incineration network)

Cat attended the UKWIN AGM on 20 April and was on a panel discussion Q and A session. http://ukwin.org.uk

Be The Start Campaign

Cat represented Freegle at the launch of Be the Start at in London on 30 April. This was an opportunity for Freegle to be represented in celebrating the launch, networking with others involved in the campaign and to hear from Stephen Howard and Alan Knight (BITC) and Caroline Taylor (IBM) amongst others.

3Space

Cat gave a talk at 3Space on 2 May on the Brighton Waste House as a case study of collaboration and rethinking space.

http://3spacerethink.org/

Global Sharing Day

On 2 May Cat also attended the launch of Global Sharing Day in London with afternoon tea at the House of Commons.

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6179762837#

http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/events/

Grand Designs Live

On 9 May Cat gave a seminar talk on reuse and Freegle for Grand Designs Live show at Excel.

Martin Lewis

We were given a mention by Martin Lewis on ITV on 3 May.

In anticipation of an increased load on the server we agreed to allocate between £25 and £40 from the IT discretionary fund to buy the extra nodes needed to cope.

Sundae School

Edward was one of the panellists at this event run by Ben and Jerry’s on 14 May. Martha Lane Fox was also a panellist and spoke about digital inclusion and her company Lastminute.com

http://www.benjerry.co.uk/our-values/join-our-core/sundaeschool

Edward is following up a few technical contacts from this. You can see a short video at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRkT7EOztjs

Something for Nothing

This will be screened on Tuesday 18th June and Tuesday 25th June by Channel 4. Cat may appear in one or both episodes, and we will prepare the servers for some extra load.

Volunteers Week June 1 - 7

Cat tweeted about this - celebrating the good that Freegle volunteers do around the UK for communities and the environment. As part of this we held our first #freeglehour on Twitter, where we try to get people tweeting and engaging at the same time. We aim to do this monthly.

STRATEGY/STRUCTURE

Safeguarding

We agreed to recommend to Central the statement prepared by the Structure Working Group.

http://wiki.ilovefreegle.org/Safeguarding

Mailbox

info@ilovefreegle.org

Jacky let us know that Kylie, Croydon has joined the mailbox team.

Paying for services

We discussed some of the issues surrounding paying for services and have identified areas of work that are being carried out for Freegle.

Payment for Volunteers

We noted that this poll on Central was carried with a majority vote. This means that any Volunteer - whether elected, active centrally, or not - can receive payment for services for Freegle, as long as everything is properly documented and the process is fair and transparent. Structure Working Group will consider the relevant policies and procedures that need to be adjusted to enable this to happen.

Returning Officer Election

We nominated Jacky to act as our representative for the Reps responsibilities in the Returning Officer election.

OTHER

Wirral Recycle

We were advised that this Group had been accidentally deleted. The Reps coordinated with the Group Affiliation/LaunchTeam and Geeks and we’re pleased to say that Wirral Freegle is now up and running.

USEFUL CONTACT EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR FREEGLE

can be found on this wiki page

http://wiki.ilovefreegle.org/Contact_Details

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