Seniors Network - Continuing a Forum?

Continuing - your Successful Forum
Possible issues? (It pays to begin by focussing on something of interest to local people!!)	community care community health local transport environment roads pavement lighting housing welfare rights leisure and recreation education equal opportunities National pensioner Issues
Campaigning activities?	publicity action petitions lobbying?
Taking issues to the council meeting?	Identify responsibility (which councillor or official) Meeting -- informal or formal?
Talking to the council?	have regular meeting - quarterly? establish informal relationships invite attendance at committee meetings? obtain council minutes, reports etc
Talking to other public organisations?	NHS Transport undertakings residential homes gas, electricity boards other voluntary organisations
Reporting back to members?	committee Forum inform media other interested organisations
Making friends with other organisations?	good contacts information exchange shared aims and activity
Good organisation?	regular meetings - both committee and open meetings provision of information > >committee >Forum, >other pensioners >general public motivate members by interesting meetings hold proper elections to committee regular reporting
What Training?	committee skills training of volunteers public speaking structure of local government finance and funding
Checking up? Measuring success?	annual report record of work evaluate work - success, failures - why? attendance at meetings - numbers, organisations reaching out to non-attenders? reaching out to housebound? valuing ourselves - a year's good work?

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