Wow, you guys rock!<br><br>I'm so impressed with all the kids space plans for Climate Camp. <br><br>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. <br>
<br>But better now! And feeling all the better for having been forced to take a break.<br><br>And I'm so, so pleased you've done so much on this.<br><br>Will try to make it to meeting soon.<br><br>Emily<br><br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/13 Jon Waters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathan_waters7@yahoo.co.uk">jonathan_waters7@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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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><p 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><p 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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</p><h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">First meeting</font></u></h1>
<p 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><h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Kids’ action</font></u></h1>
<p 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><h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The political importance of childcare</font></u></h1>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">We’re concerned about the lack of enthusiasm around providing stuff for kids and their carers.</font>
</p><p 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><p 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><h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Notice board</font></u></h1>
<p 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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</p><h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Climate Camp Kidzine</font></u></h1>
<p 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>
</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Action point: Anna Davies</b> to speak to Bob at the printing co-op about using their facilities and whether they have a collating machine that staples stuff too.</font></font>
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</p><h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Resources</font></u></h1>
<p 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>
</p><p 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><h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Activities for the kidspace</font></u></h1>
<p 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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</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">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.</font>
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</p><h1 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Collective Meeting</font></u></h1>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">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.<span> </span>Time and date to be arranged.</font>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The group would like to show solidarity with Steve and Juliet Umoru who’ve been recently deported from Yarlswood to Nigeria.</font>
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</p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Next meeting Sunday 2<sup>nd</sup> August 1pm in London Fields play area near the Pub on the Park.</font>
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