New Year, new future

First blog post of 2010. Things have started a little slow as people are getting back to work, but this year looks to be a good one. Posters are now up in local pubs, just the clubs to go. The car stickers are ready and going in the local taxis this week. There are many plans for the year and it should be exciting.

I will keep the blog updated.

YMCA showing

Well the showing of the film at the YMCA was a great success! Only had about 6 youngsters there but what a responce! These guys were so responsive and full of ideas. Its been suggested that we have a follow up with the others. We had lots of feedback when we expected not much at all really. Well chuffed!

Pic of me and Nicci (Lib Dem councillor for my area, shes been wonderfull and was a crucial part of passing the motion at council!)



Pic of Me, Nicci and Christell (Organizer of the evening at the YMCA)

Bus and Train Station Advertising

This sort of advertising is very costly so we are now looking for sponsorship. To do the advertising we want, this includes the leaflets in the Big Issue we will need around £4,000. Crazy! Anyway, there are a few avenues im looking at so hopefully we will get there.

Email regarding Cornwall

Below is the email received regarding the use of the new material in Schools in Cornwall.

Dear Adam,

Many thanks for your e-mail. I am impressed with what has been put on the website and I’ll be recommending it to all our secondary schools. We’ll be having a heads of PSHE Conference in the summer where we could promote it again. What I’ll do is compose an e-mail to go out with the link and recommend that schools order the DVD resources for themselves and consider financially supporting the campaign as part of Citizenship Education. I think it would be useful in our PRUs and I’ll let the YOT know about it as they might find it useful too.

Council Motion

This evening a motion to fully support the campaign was passed unanimously by Taunton Deane Borough Council. I very pleased (an a little emotional!) and very excited about what this could mean for the campaign. Ive been told to expect further meetings to discuss the best way forward. They are currently discussing putting a link to the website on the official council website and promotion to youth groups. Im a little shocked and cant remember much of what was said. What i do remember though was that every single hand in that room went up to agree to the motion. What a moment!