Minutes of Voice for All Committee Meeting 12 th September 2016 to
Committee Members People Present Clare Whittle Chairperson and Treasurer Becky Gammon Vice Chairperson and Assistant Secretary John Thompson Lizzie McClennan Treasurer Hughie Jacques Chris Clegg Assistant Secretary Chris Eden Chris Wren Treasurer Ann Riding Assistant Secretary Lianne Wilkinson Assistant Secretary Craig Gallagher Richard Cattley Treasurer Alan Gunn
Facilitators John Whitehead Support Workers, Volunteers, Guests and Visitors Anita Bennett Support Worker Lynda Tempest Support Worker Joe Flood Support Worker Bob Clare Volunteer and Secretary Kate Major Support Worker Alex Howarth Visitor Denise Rawsthorne Support Worker Kath Sharples Guest Apologies George Synott Committee Member Adam Deane Co-Facilitator
Who is here? Clare welcomed everyone to the meeting. We all quickly took it in turn to say our name out loud. This lets Clare and Lizzie know who is here and whereabouts we are all sat in the room. Today s Agenda Who is here? Present and Apologies Our own news Future events and activities
Dates for our Diary Voice for All Website and Video http://brothersofcharity.org.uk/lancashire/ about-us/voice-for-all/ CCG Action Plan Update Voice for All 2016 Action Plan Update Coffee Break Minutes of last week s meeting Post and Emails
Agenda items for next meeting Close of meeting Date of next Committee meeting Monday 19 th September NEWS We all took it in turn to share our own news. Apologies Bob and Lianne said they were unable to attend the committee meeting next week on Monday 19 th September and asked that we gave their apologies. Future events and activities Clare explained that the Fundraising Group had met this morning and had agreed the following programme of events;
Voice for All Film Nights The Film Nights are a great success and enjoyed by many people. They are very well supported and people have asked for them to be held on a regular basis. The group agreed to hold a film night every month and have agreed the following; The Bucket List Wednesday 21 st September As September is Macmillan Cancer Month, we have agreed to hold a Charity Film Night and Coffee evening. We will be eating cake and watching The Bucket List, a film about two men who have cancer. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Monday 24 th October 2016 One of the world s famous and best loved musicals and films about a car that can fly! Doors open at 6.30pm and film starts at 7pm. Mrs Doubtfire Monday 21 st November 2016 A very funny film starring Robin Williams. As usual, doors will open at 6.30pm and film starts at 7pm.
White Christmas Monday 19 th December 2016 An old time Christmas Classic with Bing Crosby singing I m dreaming of a White Christmas. Again, doors open at 6.30pm and film starts at 7pm. Other events that Voice for All are organising are; Halloween Disco Tuesday 1 st November 2016 St Joseph s Parish Centre Harpers Lane, Chorley 7pm-10pm Fancy Dress, Live Music and Entertainment, Hot Pot Supper, Bar and Raffle Voice for All AGM and Party Night Tuesday 29 th November 2016 St Joseph s Parish Centre Harpers Lane, Chorley 7pm-10pm Live Music and Entertainment, Hot Pot Supper, Bar and Raffle
Valentines Disco Friday 10 th February 2017 St Joseph s Parish Centre Harpers Lane, Chorley 7pm-10pm Live Music and Entertainment, Hot Pot Supper, Bar and Raffle Dates for our Diary Between now and Christmas Voice for All have lots of things happening and will be very busy. John went through the diary to share what we have planned. September 13 th Recruitment Event 14 th Pre Partnership Board meeting 15 th Annual Gala Dinner 19 th Craig s Person Centred Review 21 st Partnership Board Meeting 21 st Film Night 24 th Preston Pride 28 th CCG AGM Leyland 29 th CCG AGM Preston October 5 th Lancashire Relationships Group 6 th Y be Shy Conference Meeting 10 th Hate Crime Awareness Launch 19 th Customer Service Excellence 24 th Film Night 26 th Partnership Board Meeting
November 1 st Halloween Disco 9 th NW Being Safe Group Meeting 10 th NW Living Well Group Meeting 21 st Film Night 24 th Y be Shy Conference 29 th Voice for All AGM & Party Night 30 th Lancashire Relationships Group December 5 th NW Regional Forum Meeting 7 th Partnership Board Meeting (tbc) 8 th Health and Wellbeing Meeting 12 th VFA Christmas Meal 19 th Christmas Film Night Voice for All Website John showed us the new Voice for All website. We loved the website and thought it looked great. We are very happy with all information and photographs that are on it and we like that it is accessible to people. We thought our website was a great way of letting our members and the general public know all about us and keeping them up to date. Thank you to John for helping to manage our site and for keeping everything up to date. CCG Action Plan update We went through the Action Plan. We need to start looking at some more actions including producing easy read leaflets, and reviewing the Big White Wall. John will contact Dawn and make arrangements for us to meet.
Voice for All 2016 Action Plan Update We looked at our own Action Plan. We have made lots of progress but there is still lots of work to be done. We asked John to kindly update the Action Plan on our behalf. We will then make plans to work on some more actions. Minutes of last week s meeting Ann, Becky, Chris C and Lianne helped Bob to read out and share the minutes from the meeting held on 5 th September. The Committee members were asked to show their green or red cards to say they were happy or unhappy with the minutes. Everyone showed their green cards to approve and accept the minutes. John was asked to email them to everyone on behalf of Voice for All and to send them to every area and put them on the website. POST Becky said that there was no post for Voice for All this week. EMAILS Lianne used the smartboard to open up Voice for All s emails and to help John share the information.
Keeping the CCG s up to date John had emailed Dawn to give her an update of what Voice for All had done so far. This included; CCG meetings and Consultations Sharing Patients Stories Facebook and online safety training Attending CCG s AGM s Lots of Easy Read available John sent an email to let us know that there is lots of Health related easy read information available. Simply click on this link to find out more; http://blog.pathwaysassociates.co.uk/reso urces/easy-read-documents/ John also told us about Easy Health which is a fantastic website and a great resource where you can find hundreds of easy read leaflets and videos about health, food and exercise. Please visit; http://www.easyhealth.org.uk/ We hope you find these websites helpful and that they will help you to stay healthy, safe and well! Articles for VoiceBOCS John shared the four articles he has written on our behalf for the next edition of VoiceBOCS. These are about; Facebook training Preston Pride Lizzie s Patient story Voice for All Webpage We look forward to them being published!
Unfortunately we ran out of time to look at any more of our emails. We agreed to look at them at next week s meeting instead. Any other questions or business There were no other questions or business Agenda for the next meeting The things we want to talk about at our next meeting are; Preston Pride Preparation VFA Action Plan Post and Emails The meeting finished at 3.05pm
Next Committee Meeting Monday 19 th September 2016 to Phone or email us: Telephone 01257 248856 or 01257 266311 Extension 244 Email voiceforall@brothersofcharity.org.uk http://brothersofcharity.org.uk/lancashire/about-us/voice-for-all/ Please let us know if there is anything you want us to talk about or do for you. We can put it on our agenda. Remember; Our agenda is Your agenda Voice for All is here to help and speak up for you You can use the Green and Red forms below to tell us about; The good things that make you happy The bad things that make you feel sad or unhappy. We want to share the good stories so we can all learn from them and celebrate with you. We want to help you with anything you think is bad so we can try and change things and make life better for you.
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