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Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/BenignBacteriaPlanObnoxiously
Agenda:
- Northfield food service @Loreid
- Ways to spend funds
Notes:
Actions from last meeting
- Amelia to ask Ciara about pictures
- Amelia to contact participant
Airtable - Amelia working on action list. Will put link on the forum.
Northfield
- We have people lined up for the 7th.
- proposal is to move to more community-based/mutual-aid model
- Ben: are we at capacity or coudl we do our own thing? Amelia: we could distribute to more than one project but we don’t have backroom and driver capacity to do our own disctribution - we burned out last time.
Ben: food for schools, some sort of food pack for collection. If people are not sending kids to school that increases the pressure on in-home meals. Change our narrative, make it more about community organising to provide what families are currently having to do.
Amelia: we need to sort out distribuition/messaging
Sean: let’s ask participants what they would want. Sean to draft - Amelia to send.
In terms of Northfield, will assume we are sending food to them this Thursday, and ongoing until we decide to transition out. We will need to review Northfield to check it is doing something good for us/is in the direction we want it to go.
How to spend money
£1000 for buffer
Approved £200 to the Unison porters as per Leo’s idea
We will be able to find something to do with the money with the schools issues at the moment.
Solidarity cafe
Paul has now moved to London. Cecile still here, and Sean has been asked to be the other signatory on the CIC. Sean happy to be, and review feasibilty of the Solidarity Cafe project (not until Warehouse cafe is up and running again).
Leo: need to park it for now - so far off when it can be done. Could be 6 months before it could launch.
Sean: Cecile and Karen did a funding application to Central England Coop Supermarket. Sean to look at the form to find out what conditions are attached.
Sean to sign up to the directorship.
Coop structure
Leo thinks we need one. We all agreee.
- BRASS
Leo is messaging Ella NOW.
We should provide advice to BRASS about becoming a coop, if there’s an opportunity.
social media
- documenation of northfield
- document co-op cycle
merch
- Sean: neckerchief/square of printed cloth.
Leo can set up e-commerce