Strategy diagram

Thanks, Claire, I don't know myself where I fit. I usually attend the steering meetings, even though I don't have any specific responsibility. Somehow I've ended up representing the group at "One-Day-Without-Us" meetings. I try to help with events, as and when. Maybe best classed as a generic "volunteer".

Rev 2 of diagram attached. Amendments in red. Further comments welcome.

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Sorry - malfunction my end. Here it is. Any further comments welcome for next steering group mtg.

Hi claire, I must either have an ancient version of word, or its a loomio glitch, but the doc wont open properly. Could you please email the doc to me and maybe I will be able to open it. Thanks

I have sort of opened it: Here are my ideas.
1) Last nights meeting was a good example of how in my opinion we have now grown to the point where we can't adequately deal with all the key decision making in one meeting where we are all present. Everyone is valuable to the campaign and everyone has different skills to contribute. But by discussing everything withing the steering group, we quite rightly want a say on everything , myself included. We had to defer some important content form last night and this will happen more and more as the campaign grows and we bring more people on board, (if the volunteer sub group is successful!), and make more external contacts.
2) I support the suggestion that the steering or policy group is just that, reviewing finances, policy, forward planning and strategy, and that representatives from more specialist working groups feed back into this group at regular meetings probably fortnightly. The steering group would make recommendations to each of the working groups which they would then action. They would be trusted to get on with it and deliver, and so the steering /policy group would not normally get involved in the finer detail of stalls, meetings, leaflets etc etc, except in unusual circumstances. This does mean that we need to focus on building up the groups asap.
Change is always tricky, but I think we have an opportunity to bring lots more people on board this year which could mean lots more activities and this can only work if we de centralise.
3) We need to counterbalance this by ensuring that all activists remain connected and able to contribute to the debate, as without motivated activists, we are nothing. I can think of two ways to do this.The steering group should consult with all activists using loomio and they should refer to the responses when reaching decisions. Remember that the steering group will include reps from the working groups and any other it co opts. It wont just be the chair, treasurer and secretary! And secondly all activists need to have a forum where they can meet and network and share their ideas so maybe we need to build in monthly or two monthly activists meetings like the one we had at brsli, that are also social with food.

It seems that no chair was appointed after all?Maybe some key people were missing at the David Owen thing?

@lindagraham There was only one candidate, Claire Thomas, and she was appointed by those present at the meeting.

I thought we might have a formal announcement of the outcome of the meeting last night regarding the chair? It seemed to me that we were all very happy with the outcome - I guess that'll be reflected in the minutes.

Some of us have, however, raised questions about whether a much slimmed down steering group is a good idea. Whilst understanding the arguments for that, it seems we are at risk of losing the interpersonal contacts/dynamic between us all (rather than just those within subgroups). Text on screen (loomio/email) is fine as far as it goes but it's no substitute for contact with real people. The possibility of a more frequent strategy meeting (like the brsli one) might be a way round the problem. Didn't we say we'd discuss this at the next meeting?