4. Minutes 23/03/10

FellowshipCouncil Charter Working Group

23 March 2010

Present

Tessy Britton (co-convenor)

Bob Porrer

Andrew Chidgey

Ann Packard

Ned Thistlethwaite (Staff)

Laura Billings (Staff)

Roxanne Persaud

Apologies

Jackie Elliman

Stephen Elliot Hunter

Kevin Cahill

Gerry Acher

Handout: slides for proposed first workshop

Welcome and catch up (LB)

Minutes posted online after last meeting, quick run through to check all up to speed and questions answered

Q: Internal Fellowship group – who is on the group?

A: Representatives from Fellowship, House, External Affairs, and Projects. Used as an internal sounding board for ideas, group includes Laura and Ned who are working to feed between both groups

Q: Branding – will the Council receive a document outlining branding changes, guidelines etc?

A: Branding is more light-touch, being phased in (ref MT’s blog posts), do not currently have such a document to share but Council is involved and informed (ref main meeting later today). Only highlighted because we’ll have
to ensure whatever text we produce has consistent messaging.

Q: Roadshow events – will the Council be involved?

A: Absolutely. Ref presentation and questions in main council meeting today to develop them. Only highlighted to keep in mind as an opportunity we can use to develop and communicate the Charter

Proposal for first workshop and development plan shared with internal Fellowship working group – feedback that we need to make the case for a Charter more compelling. Points raised have been
worked into current version – comments welcome

Admin

Council convenor – appointed Jackie and Tessy as co-convenors

Revised timescales – not covered at meeting. Included on agenda as a call to arms, reminder that we need to deliver by October and have to get moving

Group objectives

Clarify purpose of Charter

Produce amended values statement version, plus ‘how to’ guide

(suggestion that the ‘third’ piece of the puzzle is ‘what do Fellows want to do’, suggestion this is intrinsically linked and built into the ‘how to’ guide)

Method

• Series of iterative workshops and conversations – suggested need to build in more informal light touch conversations as well
• Starting 8^th April in London with breakfast meeting – Andrew and Ann attending to represent Council working group
• Should include non-Fellows in the process because Charter is also intended to communicate to wider public
• Schedule of conversations should include current infrastructure (regional committees, city networks, working groups, roadshow etc)
• • Suggestions of next places include Chichester network (Tessy), Creative Industries Network, Nottingham and North East (Ann)
• Agreed that this process of evaluating and explaining our values is a valuable and necessary one
• Questions should be framed to avoid repetitious discussions – suggestions include “does this describe what we are trying to achieve?” “what are we going to do with it?” “is
  this you?”

Next steps and deadlines

Address feedback from working group and re-develop initial workshop design (Laura to amend presentation and send to Ned and Andrew by Fri 26 Mar)

Build calendar of events, conversations and networks to attend or pass the information to (Laura to provide framework on Ning, suggestions from whole group and other Fellows welcome)

AOB

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