Mentors Team Report 2017 02
Report for Freegle Mentors December 2016 – February 2017
Mentors currently have 9 members and 1 Board observer.
Mentors are:
Christian, Diz, David, Tom, Cooky , Jo and Alison. Sheila is the team coordinator Wanda is acting co-coordinator and Andy is our Board observer.
Mentors spent some time writing up an email to encourage groups currently not using FD to have it added on their groups. The email has yet to be sent because of discussions on Development about contacting non FD groups. The discussion is taking a little longer than expected so we expect to be getting on with sending the email out anyway in the next few days.
Inverness and Moray were declared as abandoned groups using the abandoned group procedure, after they were left unmoderated for a very long time and there was no response from any mods on either group, so Mentors recreated Moray as a native group that is completely free of Yahoo .
Inverness had only ever had a couple of posts per month and so was not considered to have been used enough to recreate it. Inverness is now vacant for a new person to apply to GAT to take it on. Email newgroups@ilovefreegle.org
Mags, the group owner from Brentwood asked to take on a couple of extra groups from the caretaker list. Havering, and Barking and Dagenham. Simon who is the group owner of Leighton Buzzard asked to take on Bicester, another caretaker group so we now have three groups fewer on the caretaker list.
In contrast, the owner for Colchester Freegle gave up moderating and handed her group to mentors to care for. Gateshead was handed to Mentors as the owner decided to stand down and he had no mods on board to take it on. Flintshire Freegle was handed over by the owner and Saira has been looking after it as the new owner with Sheila as a back up owner. Livingston Freegle was also handed over by the owner.
Dartford and Gravesend Freegle groups have been handed to mentors to run. These were scatty Shirleys groups who sadly passed away and the group was being looked after buy a neighbouring mod who decided the time was right to give them up.
So altogether, including the recreated Moray group, we have seven new groups added to the caretaker list this quarter, some of these were saved from being abandoned, so a good period for saving groups
Two more groups now have FD added to them with mentors help. If you need help adding FD please contact us at mentors@ ilovefreegle.org, we are happy to help.
We had one struggling group who have accepted some help from Mentors. Two more groups reported to be struggling, have decided they are able to manage by themselves.
We have helped with cover on two groups, one for holiday cover and the other with a broken computer, that cover is continuing at the moment but the owner is expected to be up and running in a few days.
Mentors are a hard working team who are all very stretched and we really could do with some fresh volunteers. All you need is patience and the ability to moderate and help another group owner to moderate, or to run an extra group or two. You also need to be happy to follow best practice guidelines on any group that is nationally owned and to use a fixed set of rules to moderate caretaker groups . If you think you can be a mentor, please get in touch at mentors@ilovefreegle.org
Please bear in mind some of these groups may need long term caretaking as volunteers can be difficult to find.
All Caretaker groups are added to modtools. It takes a few minutes extra each time you moderate to clear the messages on extra groups.
If you are thinking about going away please don’t leave your group un-moderated, we are happy to help with cover. Contact us on mentors@ilovefreegle.org you can just remove us from the mods list on your return.
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
- Blackwater and Yateley
- Blaenau Gwent
- Brewood, Codsall and Stretton Freegle
- Bridgend
- Bury
- Cambridge
- Cannock Freegle
- Chelmsford
- Cheslyn Hay Freeworld recycling
- Colchester
- Dartford
- Derby
- Dudley – Black country Freeworld
- Durham
- Eastwood
- Flintshire
- Frome
- Gateshead
- Gravesend
- Livingston
- Llanelli
- Llyn Peninsula
- Moray
- Nottingham
- Plymouth
- Scunthorpe
- Skegness
- Skye and Lochalsh
- South Tyneside
- Swansea
- Taunton
- Thrapston
- Trafford
- Warminster
- Warrington
- Washington
- Wrexham
- Yeovil
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 .
- Amber Valley
- Blaby
- Ealing
- Fenland
- Hackney
- Hunts
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Leamington and Warwick
- New Forest West
- 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.
If you know of any group that is being left unmoderated for long periods, mentors can be contacted in strictest confidence. We would rather help out and get things back on track before a group ends up being abandoned.
mentors@ilovefreegle.org
Mentor team
Links:
- Mentor Team Remit
- Previous report Mentors Team Report 2016 11
- Following report Mentors Team Report
