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Continuing - your Successful Forum |
Possible issues?
(It pays to begin by focussing on something of interest to
local people!!)
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- community care
- community health
- local transport
- environment
- roads
- pavement
- lighting
- housing
- welfare rights
- leisure and recreation
- education
- equal opportunities
- National pensioner Issues
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| Campaigning
activities?
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- publicity
- action
- petitions
- lobbying?
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| Taking issues to the
council meeting? |
- Identify responsibility (which councillor or
official)
- Meeting -- informal or formal?
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| Talking to the
council? |
- have regular meeting - quarterly?
- establish informal relationships
- invite attendance at committee meetings?
- obtain council minutes, reports etc
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| Talking to other public
organisations? |
- NHS
- Transport undertakings
- residential homes
- gas, electricity boards
- other voluntary organisations
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| Reporting back to members? |
- committee
- Forum
- inform media
- other interested organisations
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| Making friends with other
organisations? |
- good contacts
- information exchange
- shared aims and activity
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| 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
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| What Training? |
- committee skills
- training of volunteers
- public speaking
- structure of local government
- finance and funding
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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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SET UP A PENSIONERS FORUM
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