[ssf] Intro, details and feedback form

[@mparo]

If someone is preparing the A4s for INTRO

have a look at these details:



/name of the monthly bulletin/ I am suggesting *"WHY DON'T YOU...?"* as
the name of the monthly bulletin.


*WHY DON'T YOU...?* is a monthly email bulletin about political, social
and cultural events,  workshops, courses and other events in Sheffield
and the surrounding and nearby areas of the Northern regions.
Subscription
If you would like to subscribe to the listing service, please email
XXXXXX with 'subscribe' in the subject line.
Listings
If you wish to publicise an event, please send details including:
the event name
the date, time and location
the entrance charge (if any)
brief details about the event
contact details, if necessary
SSF HOME
www.sheffieldsocialforum.org/





*WHY DON'T YOU...?*

...Have new planned events announced on our SSF events
listings service every month? The service is available for political,
social and cultural goings-on in the coming month.  If you have
something you want others to know about, please write it here or send
the details to ssf at lists.aktivix.org ...


*From February 17th to middle-March 2005*:

*Events in
Sheffield-Manchester-Nottingham-Liverpool-Leeds-Bradford-Leicester-Doncaster-York-Lincoln-Blackburn-Grimsby





Dan wrote:

> Hallo!
> 
> I'm going to prepare a sheet of A4 for the following purposes. Please
> be sure to read the outline of what SSF does below - this was 
> something me n Dave sort of came up with earlier, and it would be 
> good to get feedback quickly!
> 
> 1. A little outline about what the SSF does, what it hopes to do, and
>  how this meeting can help to decide what will happen in the future 
> (See below.) 2. Take the person's details, saying  -
> 
> "We are starting a monthly bulletin of political, social and cultural
>  goings-on in the coming month.  If you want to sign up, tick here. 
> If you have something you want others to know about, please write it 
> here or send the details to..."
> 
> (I suggest we start using the ssf at lists.aktivix.org address - 
> non-members posts come to moderators, so we can pick them up.)
> 
> "If you want to get more involved in the day-to-day running of the 
> SSF, we have an e-mail discussion list.  Tick here if you want to 
> sign up..."
> 
> Here's an idea - how do people feel about this?
> 
> 3. "We are planning to have open mini-forums like today's once every 
> three months.  This is our first, so we're just learning!  Could you 
> please let us know what worked for you and what didn't?  E.g. was it 
> too unstructured / too structured?"
> 
> 4. "SSF is preparing its forward planner for 2005.  We hope to have a
>  mix of things going on - please let us know if there's any specific 
> issue or speaker you'd like to see. We can't promise anything, but 
> we'll do our best - especially if you get involved with the 
> organising!" ---------- Outline -
> 
> Welcome to the first Sheffield Social Forum meeting of 2005
> 
> "What's the Sheffield Social Forum do?"
> 
> 1. Network events like today - providing welcoming space for anyone 
> who believes in people not profit.  From this, we hope new ideas, 
> actions, alliances and friendships will spring.  Whether you believe 
> change can only come about through street action, or prefer writing 
> letters to MPs, these events are a rare chance for talking to people 
> with different ideas on neutral territory.
> 
> 2. SSF campaigns.  SSF offers a supportive environment for local 
> campaign work, such as recent work on welfare and local democracy in 
> Burngreave. 3. Other political support - we're expanding our 
> announcements list to include a bulletin of political, social and 
> cultural events, and hoping to develop our website as well as help 
> set up to a local newsletter.
> 
> 4. SSF research group - this has already started working on 
> supporting local Burngreave activists to campaign and research their 
> local area, and will hopefully be expanding to link student 
> researchers with the wider Sheffield community.
> 
> 5. Whatever else you can bring to it...
> 
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