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Divestment Networking Event  20th Feb 2016

The idea behind this session is twofold

  1.  We would like to progress the Local Authority Divestment campaign in 2016. The campaign gives us the opportunity to work together as local groups on a regional basis in a way that other campaigns haven’t done for a long time as the L.A Pension Funds are grouped in the old county structure. So we would like to come together, update you all on what the latest state of play is and then we can work out a way of working together in a fun and exciting way which will hopefully lead to campaign success but also be a means for us all to recruit new members into our local groups
  2. The Welsh Assembly elections are happening on 5th May 2016. We will be doing some work around these elections as they offer us an excellent opportunity to talk to new and existing AMs about our campaign and policy asks. We have had a bit of a different idea of how FOE groups could get involved if you wish – we would like to recruit film student volunteers (or at least someone with good video and editing experience and ability) to help you interview local candidates about some of our key campaign and policy asks and then we can all use these on social media. It’s a bit different and more of an interactive way of quizzing candidates that will also give us all a higher profile if these get shared across social media. The idea is that we get new volunteers in to help you do all this so it doesn’t become a big deal in terms of time commitment.

 

Proposed structure:

10.00 – 11.45 – Divestment (update on campaign, sharing successes from other parts of the UK followed by a session on how we can work together regionally in groups, what sort of information do we need to gather, what sort of events can we put on, how can we involve more people, how do we make this fun and also looking ahead to a proposed day of action that is being organised for November 2016 time)

 11.45 – 12.15 – refreshments/early lunch

 12.15 – 2.00 – Welsh Assembly elections (update on FOE Cymru ‘asks’ and what we have planned, how local groups can get involved and how we can best use the idea of video vox-pops with candidates (an example is here with Leanne Wood prior to the UK General Election http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-wales-32234074  ). We will be trying to recruit new volunteers to help you with this when the time comes but in the meantime, if you have decent smart phones, do bring them and we can try videoing a suitable ‘volunteer’ ;-)




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