<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>The more the merrier I would have thought Gail. Give them our contact details and they can come to the next meeting if they're keen. Or if they just show up at CC with an activity or willingness to lead some games or something that's great too.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 13/7/09, Gail Chester <I><gailchester@blueyonder.co.uk></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Gail Chester <gailchester@blueyonder.co.uk><BR>Subject: Re: [Radical_childcare] Minutes from Sunday 12th meeting<BR>To: "Jon Waters" <jonathan_waters7@yahoo.co.uk>, feministchildrearing@riseup.net, "radical childcare" <radical_childcare@lists.aktivix.org>, "Anna Davies" <annmaridav@hotmail.com><BR>Date: Monday, 13 July, 2009, 4:19 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best, Gail</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A title=jonathan_waters7@yahoo.co.uk href="http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jonathan_waters7@yahoo.co.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:jonathan_waters7@yahoo.co.uk">Jon Waters</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=feministchildrearing@riseup.net href="http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=feministchildrearing@riseup.net" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:feministchildrearing@riseup.net">feministchildrearing@riseup.net</A> ; <A title=radical_childcare@lists.aktivix.org href="http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=radical_childcare@lists.aktivix.org" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:radical_childcare@lists.aktivix.org">radical childcare</A> ; <A title=annmaridav@hotmail.com href="http://uk.mc274.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=annmaridav@hotmail.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:annmaridav@hotmail.com">Anna Davies</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 13, 2009 2:44 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Radical_childcare] Minutes from Sunday 12th meeting</DIV>
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<H2 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Radical Childcare Collective meeting 12/7/09</FONT></U></H2>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Present: Anna Davies, Anna, Annelle, Brunel, Gemma, Jon, Kaden, Maggie, Molly, Una.<SPAN> </SPAN>(Apologies to children who’s names I failed to find out.)</FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Almost the whole meeting was focussed on the climate camp Kidspace that we’re helping to organise.</FONT>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>First meeting</FONT></U></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>We’ll have a general Kidspace meeting on Friday 28<SUP>th</SUP> (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.<SPAN> </SPAN>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.</FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Some people are interested in organising a kid friendly action towards the end of the camp.<SPAN> </SPAN>This could include a happy colourful exciting march through London to a climate-change-is-affecting-kids type target.<SPAN> </SPAN>It could also include planting a tree somewhere.</FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Action point: Gemma</B> 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.<SPAN> </SPAN>Gemma will send it round to the list for a quick group edit before it is finalised.<SPAN> </SPAN>This statement will be read out at the next climate camp gathering, by either Anna Davies or Annelle.</FONT></FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>As well as this there’s a plan to do a workshop for adults about these ideas.<SPAN> </SPAN>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.</FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>We’ll put up a Kidspace notice board in the welcome tent which will draw attention to what’s going on.<SPAN> </SPAN>It will include a rough programme of what organised activities are happening each day.<SPAN> </SPAN>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.<SPAN> </SPAN>We’ll probably also put up a suggestion about parents/carers camping close together so they can conveniently share kidsitting arrangements in the evenings.</FONT>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Climate Camp Kidzine</FONT></U></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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.<SPAN> </SPAN>The plan is for someone to get it printed on the evening of Sunday 30<SUP>th</SUP> (or first thing on 31<SUP>st</SUP> if it’s not open then) and have it all assembled to be enjoyed by everyone on the 31<SUP>st</SUP> sometime.</FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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.</FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Action point: Jon</B> to send a list of resources round the list included things we already have and things we’d like.<SPAN> </SPAN>This list can then be forwarded to other lists to help us gather all the stuff we’d like.</FONT></FONT>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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.<SPAN> </SPAN>Here’s our list so far:</FONT>
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