Notes from hub meeting – 25 October 2007

Notes taken by Chris Callard

Attending: Chris Callard, Kat Neeser, Jo Nean, Stephen Watson, David Greenop, Doly Garcia, John Bristow, Ann Baldridge

Constitution
The need for a constitution was agreed at an earlier meeting as it is required in order to set up a bank account (among other things). David expained the difference between various types of groups (charities, trusts, etc), it was agreed that we need to keep the set up of the group as simple as possible. An unincorporated association was thought to probably be the best option, but Ann is going to contact TT Lewes and Kat contact TT Totnes to see what they did before anything is decided. (Ann also going to ask bank what the bare minimum we have to do to get a bank account.) David to continue forum discussion about groups aims, needed for a constitution.

Feedback from network meeting on 18 October
• A map of the network was drawn up, it was decided this would be brought to the next hub meeting before being put on the website.
• Many questions were raised about how to use the website/forum – these should now have been answered in the 'how to use' section in the right hand column on the main page of the website.
• The feedback from the action groups was that they cannot do much without a core message and a logo. A core message was drafted and is to be discussed on the forum here. Logo discussed below.

Potential problems with the structure/organisation of Transition B&H
Jo raised the question of whether there needs to be any kind of checking of what action groups are doing under the name of Transition B&H, in case the group's objectives or values are being confused. It was agreed that the finalising of the core message would help with this (see above). Also it was agreed that any actions that are ready to be made public should be presented at a network meeting to iron out any of the above problems.

Logo
Chloe and Linda have come up with a number of logo designs, two of which were thought to be great. A few tweaks were suggested and are to be sent to Chloe and Linda, to be further discussed on the forum here.

Neighbourhood groups
The question was raised of how to divide the city up into areas that would be obvious to anyone. It was agreed to use the map of council wards for this for now, and change at a later date if needs be. Chris to put up usergroups and categories for the neighbourhood groups on the forum.

As the next network meeting was not discussed it was decided to postpone the network meeting until Tue 6 November, and have another hub meeting on Tue 30 October.