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This is the place to learn about Senior Citizens Forums

  

    Introduction
Start a Forum - Checklist
Successful Forum - Checklist
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Now that your Forum is up an running here is a few pointers to keep it on the right path!
 

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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