Burnley & Pendle Voice Community Group

[Mitch]

Hey dude, just read that A4 sheet on plans afoot for independent Burnley & Pendle Voice Group - fantastico!!!!!!!!!! Have just sent you an email.

All ideas are fantastic - can't wait. Could stick your A4 sheet of ideas up here - or create a new thread.

It's gonna be good - whey hey!!!!

[Mitch]

Also, hey reckon we could meet maybe at St Johns bar/Vaughn St every two weeks - say every 2 weeks on Wednesday or someit - if you want a leaflet copying for may day monday to publicise let me know tomoz.

tarara Mx

[michele cryer]

Hiya Mitch, thanks for this, have just read your email.

Will try to think of some ideas for publicising the Voice overnight, and yes I will copy the Burnley and Pendle Voice ideas onto the forum...

Great suggestion to meet fortnightly, btw.

Cya,
Michele xx

[michele cryer]

BURNLEY AND PENDLE VOICE COMMUNITY GROUP

Structure of Group:

• Informal group of friends living in Burnley and Pendle.
• Aiming to form closer relationships in order to help each other out.
• Provide entertainment nights/days for children and adults.
• Provide information and support for local campaigns.

Means by which information will be passed on to community:

• Create and print out regular news bulletins.
• Create and circulate a programme of events.
• Print out lists on which participants can suggest themes for future events.
• Print out posters and flyers to display in local shops/venues.
• Collect leaflets re: local and national campaigns/Support groups and distribute at events and print articles in news bulletins/newsletters regarding progress locally concerning those events and details of any meetings.

Suggested events for the summer:

• Filmshows at St.John Southworth Social Centre, Vaughan St. Nelson. Saturday afternoons, 2 part programme, early afternoon for younger children, later afternoon for older children. Supervision provided…enquire re: CRB checks for supervisors and for the right to show films in ‘private’ to group members.
• ‘Themed’ Fancy Dress/Disco evenings for families…60’s, 70’s, 80’s and other themes as suggested by participants at earlier events.


Covering the costs of providing the service and organizing the events:

• Initially cover cost of producing documents for advertising from own funds/fund raising events/Jumble Sales.
• Apply for a ‘small community group’ ‘setting up’ grant. Obtain advice regarding other grants available once the group has been established and has an idea of its Aims and Objectives…if felt necessary.
• Re-coup costs from sales of tickets/sales of crisps/sweets/drinks at children’s filmshow events.
• Establish links with existing organizations to obtain advice re: funding, advertising, resources, and to gain more interest from the general public.

[michele cryer]

Well interest is brewing in the setting up of our little group...ideas flooding in about making the Saturday afternoon events for children a sort of 'Workshops' event as well as providing play equipment and background films/cartoons. One suggestion was to bring in musicians who could teach kids their instruments, artists who could work on the children's creative styles etc.

1st organising meeting planned for this Thursday, May 4th, 8pm at St. John Southworth Social Centre Bar, Vaughan St, Nelson...

All welcome...ask for Mitch or Michele at the bar if you don't recognise any of us!!

[Mitch]

Looking forward to this meeting very much later in the week dude.

Ace ideas from you and Jules - she's fab great to see her and Sky today at Towneley.

byeeeeeeee Mitch x

[michele cryer]

Thanks for taking the time to post tonight, Mitch...thought you would be too knackered!! ;D

Sounds like Thursday might be a good meeting, be prepared - have ideas already written down on paper then we can go ahead smoothly with the planning...Karen is hoping to join us too!!

[Mitch]

Hey dude, that agenda's fab - just emailed you.

Catch you at St Johns tomoz at 8pm - bob agenda up here I would - open it up

You're brill.

later dude Mitch x

[michele cryer]

Hiya Mitch...thanks for the praise! Alway welcome ;D

Silly me has only saved the Agenda document to the PC I was using up in Colne, and forgot to email it to myself so that it's on mine, so unable to post up here yet...however, if you got my email asking you to email it back to me, then I'll bob it up here pronto!!!

I'm really excited about this group and have received positive feedback from other people I've mentioned it to. Now I've been to the Art and Craft classes for a few weeks, my confidence is building and I feel able to try teaching one or two of the skills I've picked up. Also thought about getting together children's jigsaw puzzles and other items they could mess with..discuss it with you all tomoz.

[Mitch]

admin said:

Hiya Mitch...thanks for the praise! Alway welcome ;D

Silly me has only saved the Agenda document to the PC I was using up in Colne, and forgot to email it to myself so that it's on mine, so unable to post up here yet...however, if you got my email asking you to email it back to me, then I'll bob it up here pronto!!!

I'm really excited about this group and have received positive feedback from other people I've mentioned it to. Now I've been to the Art and Craft classes for a few weeks, my confidence is building and I feel able to try teaching one or two of the skills I've picked up. Also thought about getting together children's jigsaw puzzles and other items they could mess with..discuss it with you all tomoz.

Hey up, just gonna email that agenda back to you now.

Hey guess what - you know that jumble Eileen gave me - there's a few jigsaws and kids toys in that - I'll bring um along tonight. From what Julie said, the toys & games and stuff at St Johns definitely need improving.

Later dude. M x

[Mitchelline]

Here it is here below too - my emails giving me jip this morning, just in case you didn't get it. tarara

Community group meeting 4th May 2006

Agenda

1. Read through and discuss original draft document. Amend and add ideas to it as appropriate/necessary.
2. Discuss format of the Saturday afternoon children’s sessions. Activities to include.
3. Discuss format of evening Family/Adults only events.
4. Discuss how often the afternoon sessions should be held, weekly, fortnightly or monthly according to budgets and availability of the room.
5. Discuss other activities such as days out, walking, joint ‘community’ ventures: improving the neighbourhood for example.
6. Decide on appropriate conditions of being allowed to work with children, supervising them, such as each ‘guardian’ having/obtaining a current CRB check/some taking First Aid and Food Hygiene courses and obtaining certificates for same.
7. Discussing the need for obtaining permission from parents, individually, for their child to take part in particular activities, eg. Outdoor ball games if permitted in the grounds of St John Southworth, or on walks. The need to encourage parents, wherever possible, to take part in some of the events, particularly those off the premises as they would be responsible for the safety of their own and other children in the group.
8. Decide what kind of community activities we want to encourage: neighbourhood gardening programmes, car pool, animal sitting/housesitting, child-care…pay particular attention to getting to know and trust the person with whom you are going to leave your child.
9. Decide on a name for the group, and some basic rules.
10. Discuss possible small time funding at this stage, for obtaining materials for setting up the group, paperwork and ink etc, and for obtaining play and art equipment for the children’s events.
11. Arrange a date for the Fundraising Jumble Sale and how to pool our own money to purchase paper, ink with which to produce flyers/posters and arrange for a group effort to distribute throughout the neighbourhood, and when to do so.
12. Finalise exactly which neighbourhoods we are including in the group in particular, bearing in mind that we can only provide for those areas that are relatively close to St.John Southworth’s Social Centre.
13. Be clear on all documents/publicity that this is not a ‘church’ organised group and so is inclusive of people of all religions/political persuasions/race/gender.
14. AOB.

[michele cryer]

Thanks for this Mitch, you just saved me a job!!