Hugo Dixon and Recruitment Thurs 1 Feb

Looks great! Can you add a specific line about a call for students and young people to come to the Pulse on 4th Feb.

Update - 65 tickets sold, no free students tickets booked yet. Please advertise widely wherever you can. Tickets are £5.90, and we have free tickets available to students with a NUS card - they should still book a free ticket on Eventbrite so we are aware of numbers.

Let me know if you need any help on the day Alice. When are we allowed in to set up?

Thanks Linda, that would be great. I will post details below to the group. :heart:

Can you let us know whose booked to date so we can chase up friends who haven’t?

Your speech looks great Claire!

Speech looks great Claire, although I'm not sure I would put BfE skills on a CV! (Coward)

I will be there to lead the questions after he has spoken if you would sill like me too. . But I may be cutting it fine to be there for 7. Could someone save me a seat near the front (I have booked)

Jane said she could stand in for you at the meeting last week when we weren't sure whether you would be there. Jane - would you be able to be on stand by to introduce Hugo?

Thanks for your advertising efforts, we now have 77 bookings, including 1 student ticket (booked by Anna's daughter!). Please find attached the list of bookings so far.

We can get into the venue from 5pm, I suggest everyone in the BfE team who can help set up arrive from 5:30. Doors open at 6:30.

Please let me know if you can arrive by 5:30 to set up. @markbaines, will you be able to bring the merchandise, display flags, banners and leaflets again as before? Can anyone assist with bringing items from Marcom? We can set up the registration desk outside the door, and merchandise tables in the room as before - Although perhaps near the front instead of by the exit.

As before, I will bring the sign-in sheet, pens, tape, blue tack. I can prepare volunteer sign-up sheets and clipboards for each group, and posters for the doors.

This is what I gather to be the programme for the evening, please correct if not:

5:30 Organisers arrive and set up

6:30 Doors and bar open

7:00 Hugo Dixon (introduced by Jane)

7:45? Q&A (facilitated by Alan)

8:30 Comfort break

8:40 Claire speech, discussion, call for volunteers

9:15 Close and pack up

I can be there about 5.30 to help set up.

Thanks Linda, see you tomorrow night!

I'll be around to help set up, but I'm afraid I can't stay for the event as my daughter gets back from her Erasmus semester in Milan at 6pm so I really have to go and be with her. Sorry to all and I'm very sad to miss it! Will someone have the keys (Ruth?) to be able to replace the stuff at Marcom?

That's fine Mark, no need to come along to set up, I am sure the rest of us will be ample. Have a lovely time.

Yes, I said I'm happy to introduce Hugo if Alan's not there. Presumably , Hugo will just speak - it won't be a Q & A like IanDunt. My voice should return by then.

Yes, I'll bring the keys to Marcom and can help put things away at the end. However, I won't have a car, so please can someone (Alan? Jane & Klaus?) provide the transport, and even possibly give me a lift home to Weston afterwards?

Just picked this up. Yes, we’ll have s car and can help carry stuff. Will have room to give 2 lifts back home so you’re welcome to have pndcRith.

I have spoken to hugos local agent and friend. He will kick off at 7 prompt(or as soon as we have introduced him) so will arrive earlier. He is happy to talk without any support from us for half an hour or so, after which he will take questions. We will need to facilitate those questions and be prepared to weed out people who go off piste, and shut people up when their questions turn into mini speeches. I have told him there will then be a short bar break, and he is happy to stay on for the last part which will include claires speech etc.

Great. I am happy to be the question fielder. I suggest we aim to start at about 7.05 in case of latecomers etc.

I could bring my car to Marcom at 5pm, the stuff needs to be ready to load in because it is difficult to park outside Marcom, then I can bring it back to Marcom & give Ruth & anyone else going Weston direction.

That would be great, thanks Dick. A bit later - 5:20 at Marcom - should be ample time, if that suits you all. Please bring your international bunting again!

Thanks Dick. See you later.

Alice - I'll try to arrive at WSC by 17:45.
Thanks for offering to drive me home afterwards, Dick.

@maggieturner Please bring some more Bath berets with you to the WSC. I put the last three in the bag for Vivienne to collect from Marcom, to have in BoA this weekend. I also put in 2 EU scarves, but that leaves us with 4 to offer on Thursday evening.
Thank you.

Will do Ruth - Will bring berets x 10 for the Saturday stalls you run and a separate batch to sell on the evening.

The 'Bath for Europe' badges from Camaloon (in Spain) have arrived. I'll bring the lot to the WSC tomorrow.

I can get to venue for about 6pm.

Don't worry Claire, get there later if you need to, I am sure there will be enough of us there to set up.

88 Tickets sold, 2 of them free tickets. We have made £424 on Eventbrite, and hopefully should sell a few on the door, so I think we may break just about even.

Please bring plenty of collection buckets, I hope you can find them. We need lots of collection buckets and need to wave them particularly at the start and end of the evening.

I will get there as soon as I can get away from work. I think people are more likely to donate at the end when they've been inspired by Hugo's talk!

Now see that we're not needed at Marcom - thanks Dick so will get to WSC by 5:45

Will be there to help set up at 5.45.

Apologies. I have to chair the AGM of Transition Larkhall tonight. Hope it goes well.

Well done to all yesterday. And a massive thanks to Hugo. And a genuinely intelligent and well written piece in the chronicle. Did we get many new volunteers?

https://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/prominent-pro-eu-journalist-author-1154289 Link from The Chron.

Many thanks to the Events team. Great evening

Six new volunteers signed up at the Outreach stand (stalls, including pop-up protests in NES, and door-to-door leafleting). I'll forward the details to Gareth et al later today.

I think according to Alice we had some new events team sign ups so good news there too. Thank you to everyone for making it such a great evening. Better set up a thread for Michael Dougan!!