[Radical_childcare] Minutes from Sunday 12th meeting

[Emily James]

Wow, you guys rock!

I'm so impressed with all the kids space plans for Climate Camp.

I'm sorry I haven't been around, but I fell ridiculously ill with a virus.
Mad sick. three weeks down, ten days of fever. Mental. And really annoying.

But better now! And feeling all the better for having been forced to take a
break.

And I'm so, so pleased you've done so much on this.

Will try to make it to meeting soon.

Emily



2009/7/13 Jon Waters <jonathan_waters7 at yahoo.co.uk>

> *Radical Childcare Collective meeting 12/7/09*
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> Present: Anna Davies, Anna, Annelle, Brunel, Gemma, Jon, Kaden, Maggie,
> Molly, Una.  (Apologies to children who’s names I failed to find out.)
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> Almost the whole meeting was focussed on the climate camp Kidspace that
> we’re helping to organise.
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> *First meeting*
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> 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.
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> *Kids’ action*
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> 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.
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> *The political importance of childcare*
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> We’re concerned about the lack of enthusiasm around providing stuff for
> kids and their carers.
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> *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.
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> 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.
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> *Notice board*
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> 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.
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> *Climate Camp Kidzine*
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> 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.
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> *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.
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> *Resources*
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> 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.
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> *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.
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> *Activities for the kidspace*
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> 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:
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> -         Felt making with Anna
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> -         Bee making with Anna
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> -         Leaf crowns, elder whistles and other forest school activities
> with Gemma
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> -         Flag making
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> -         Kite making
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> -         Bread making and biscuit making with Brunel
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> -         Circus skill share with Jon
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> -         Bike maintenance for kids
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> -         Climate change workshop for kids
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> 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.
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> *Collective Meeting*
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> 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.
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> *Yarlswood family*
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> The group would like to show solidarity with Steve and Juliet Umoru who’ve
> been recently deported from Yarlswood to Nigeria.
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> Next meeting Sunday 2nd August 1pm in London Fields play area near the Pub
> on the Park.
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