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A few weeks ago at our allotment's AGM I was asked to join the committee (along with another 3 or 4 other newer folk), as a non executive member, as for years now they haven't been able to get the committee to acchieve what they wanted! So at the first meeting the other week we all sat down, and all the new committee members (4 of us that could make it) came up with a lot of good suggestions, only to have a few of the older committee members (or at least the 5 of the pre-existing committee that turned up) put the kybosh on them as they had already tried and failed, or would encourage the local thuggery to take more of an interest in the site through improvements in the external look of the site!
Well, after such a good start, a few there thought we may as well give up and disband the committee immediately, but some of us thought otherwise and want to move it forwards, so a new chairperson and secretary were agreed (2 of the newer committee members who are retired) and I agreed to help out as much as I am able, as did Mr D! The new secretary went on a council visit to some other plots recently, and came back with a lot of ideas and thoughts, the upshot of which is I've been asked to produce a quarterly 'Allotment Newsletter' for our site!
Now, I've never done anything like this before, so I'm looking for any info or ideas from anoyone out there, if you are involved in producing an allotment newsletter or currently receive one on your site, then what do you include, how do you phrase it, what do you find uselful, any things to avoid? etc!
If you dont currently have a newsletter, but were soon to be receiving an allotment newsletter on your plot, then what would you want it to contain, what info, what features etc!
I really want to do a good job with this and hopefully help to further the community spirit and engender some more enthusiasm for attempting to rejuvenate the site, so any advice, views, opinions, hints, tips or just encouragement would be very much appreciated!
A few weeks ago at our allotment's AGM I was asked to join the committee (along with another 3 or 4 other newer folk), as a non executive member, as for years now they haven't been able to get the committee to acchieve what they wanted! So at the first meeting the other week we all sat down, and all the new committee members (4 of us that could make it) came up with a lot of good suggestions, only to have a few of the older committee members (or at least the 5 of the pre-existing committee that turned up) put the kybosh on them as they had already tried and failed, or would encourage the local thuggery to take more of an interest in the site through improvements in the external look of the site!
Well, after such a good start, a few there thought we may as well give up and disband the committee immediately, but some of us thought otherwise and want to move it forwards, so a new chairperson and secretary were agreed (2 of the newer committee members who are retired) and I agreed to help out as much as I am able, as did Mr D! The new secretary went on a council visit to some other plots recently, and came back with a lot of ideas and thoughts, the upshot of which is I've been asked to produce a quarterly 'Allotment Newsletter' for our site!
Now, I've never done anything like this before, so I'm looking for any info or ideas from anoyone out there, if you are involved in producing an allotment newsletter or currently receive one on your site, then what do you include, how do you phrase it, what do you find uselful, any things to avoid? etc!
If you dont currently have a newsletter, but were soon to be receiving an allotment newsletter on your plot, then what would you want it to contain, what info, what features etc!
I really want to do a good job with this and hopefully help to further the community spirit and engender some more enthusiasm for attempting to rejuvenate the site, so any advice, views, opinions, hints, tips or just encouragement would be very much appreciated!
I seem to remember the members hadn't had a newsletter for years and complained when the second one was late!
so it's hardly worth while for me. If I did do a newsletter it would be on an 'as and when' basis and I would pin a copy on the noticeboard rather than waste paper sending to each individual member!
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