November Update

Well, thinks have been reasonably busy since the last post, but the season means it has mainly been indoor lobbying.

As well as our regular meetings, we had our AGM meeting in October.
The Committee was re-elected with Nick Boldrini as Campaigns Co-Ordinator, Tim Maiden as Treasurer and Membership Secretary, and Paul Burton as Secretary.
At the AGM we also started a bit of a Group review to see what we want to be campaigning on in the next year or so and check people are happy with the way things are. Happily they seem to be, but we still need to sort out our focus for the next year - which will be done at the January meeting.

There will be no meeting in December as we will be having a Christmas social instead.

On the campaigning front, we have got Newcastle Friends Meeting to sign the Big Ask pledge, and a few of our members have been lobbying MPs about the Big Ask through visits to Surgeries. This will continue over the coming months.
We have also been involved in trying to find out what the South Tyne Waste Partnership is up to - with limited success. A colleague in BANWaste had a request for information about the Private Finance Initiative funding bid the partnership has applied for turned down, so now we are having a go. We'll let you know if we find out anything!