[Radical_childcare] Minutes from Sunday 12th meeting

[butterflea at riseup.net]

Re Woodcraft Folk, i think thats a great idea,
Una

> Dear all,
>
> What you are doing sounds really great. Even though I am not coming to
> meetings, I love getting the emails and hope to be able to support you
> more actively at some point.
>
> I was wondering whether Woodcraft Folk (the organisation centrally, or
> individuals within it) might be a source for helpers/participants at
> Climate Camp? I have some contacts, if you are interested.
>
> Best, Gail
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Jon Waters
>   To: feministchildrearing at riseup.net ; radical childcare ; Anna Davies
>   Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:44 PM
>   Subject: [Radical_childcare] Minutes from Sunday 12th meeting
>
>
>         Radical Childcare Collective meeting 12/7/09
>
>
>         Present: Anna Davies, Anna, Annelle, Brunel, Gemma, Jon, Kaden,
> Maggie, Molly, Una.  (Apologies to children who’s names I failed
> to find out.)
>
>
>
>
>
>         Almost the whole meeting was focussed on the climate camp Kidspace
> that we’re helping to organise.
>
>
>
>         First meeting
>         We’ll have a general Kidspace meeting on Friday 28th (probably
> in the early afternoon) which will be a time to get as much input
> from kids and their carers as possible about what they want the
> Kidspace to be.  It would be good to get an experienced
> facilitator along to that meeting as well as someone with
> experience of communicating effectively with kids of all ages to
> get the most out the this meeting.
>
>
>
>         Kids’ action
>         Some people are interested in organising a kid friendly action
> towards the end of the camp.  This could include a happy colourful
> exciting march through London to a
> climate-change-is-affecting-kids type target.  It could also
> include planting a tree somewhere.
>
>
>
>         The political importance of childcare
>         We’re concerned about the lack of enthusiasm around providing
> stuff for kids and their carers.
>
>         Action point: Gemma to write a short statement based mainly on
> stuff from the Raising Some Hell zine about not leaving your
> friends behind and the whole community taking responsibility for
> childcare.  Gemma will send it round to the list for a quick group
> edit before it is finalised.  This statement will be read out at
> the next climate camp gathering, by either Anna Davies or Annelle.
>
>
>
>         As well as this there’s a plan to do a workshop for adults about
> these ideas.  The workshop would basically involve facilitating a
> general discussion on childcare issues within “the movement”,
> not leaving our friends behind and what we can all do to draw
> attention to this.
>
>
>
>         Notice board
>         We’ll put up a Kidspace notice board in the welcome tent which
> will draw attention to what’s going on.  It will include a rough
> programme of what organised activities are happening each day.  It
> will also include plenty of space for people to write up needs and
> offers of support with regards to childcare to facilitate
> parents/carers getting to the workshops they want to.  We’ll
> probably also put up a suggestion about parents/carers camping
> close together so they can conveniently share kidsitting
> arrangements in the evenings.
>
>
>
>         Climate Camp Kidzine
>         We plan to gather all sorts of pictures, games ideas, recipes and
> diary entries together from the first few days of the kidspace and
> publish them in a zine that can be coloured in at the end of the
> camp.  The plan is for someone to get it printed on the evening of
> Sunday 30th (or first thing on 31st if it’s not open then) and
> have it all assembled to be enjoyed by everyone on the 31st
> sometime.
>
>         Action point: Anna Davies to speak to Bob at the printing co-op
> about using their facilities and whether they have a collating
> machine that staples stuff too.
>
>
>
>         Resources
>         We agreed that we’d like the stuff we gather for the Kidspace to
> be as creative and multi-use as possible i.e. not toys that can
> only be used in one way and are often useless once one piece is
> missing but rather lots of natural objects and versatile
> construction and crafts materials.
>
>         Action point: Jon to send a list of resources round the list
> included things we already have and things we’d like.  This list
> can then be forwarded to other lists to help us gather all the
> stuff we’d like.
>
>
>
>         Activities for the kidspace
>         Between us we have lots of cool activities we can run and at the
> camp there are bound to be lots of other people coming forward
> with their own activities they’d like to facilitate.  Here’s
> our list so far:
>
>
>
>         -         Felt making with Anna
>
>         -         Bee making with Anna
>
>         -         Leaf crowns, elder whistles and other forest school
> activities with Gemma
>
>         -         Flag making
>
>         -         Kite making
>
>         -         Bread making and biscuit making with Brunel
>
>         -         Circus skill share with Jon
>
>         -         Bike maintenance for kids
>
>         -         Climate change workshop for kids
>
>
>
>         This list will be submitted to Maddie for inclusion somewhere in
> the main programme, partly in the hope that this will attract more
> kids to climate camp this year.
>
>
>
>         Collective Meeting
>         We decided to have a meeting of the radical childcare collective
> at climate camp as a way to make ourselves more visible and to
> attract more people to the group.  Time and date to be arranged.
>
>
>
>
>
>         Yarlswood family
>         The group would like to show solidarity with Steve and Juliet
> Umoru who’ve been recently deported from Yarlswood to Nigeria.
>
>
>
>
>
>         Next meeting Sunday 2nd August 1pm in London Fields play area near
> the Pub on the Park.
>
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