Had what will hopefully be the first meeting of the Town wide fundraising focus group last night. It was a good meeting although it became clear that my ideas may be looking for too much of a step change for some of our association. We did however come up with some good ideas and there was broad support for what I am trying to achieve, even if there was some reluctance over the actual details. Anyway we did agree a few things in principle.
1 - we will look to hold 12 events this year,
Four of which will be town wide "larger events" with 8 branch events in between.
2 - with the main associations permission we will look to create a separate website for fundraising events, along with a central diary of events.
3 - we will look to have two summer events along with a large event in late summer.
So now all I have to do is pull off the impossible and we are laughing.
