Minutes 23.8.2006

Dear all,

Please find minutes for the JC meeting last Wed attached and below.

Also, following discussion in the meeting, I have set up a google Group for Just Change London. In future, instead of worrying about complicated email lists, all emails should simply be sent to the following address:

justchangelondon@googlegroups.com

I am the administrator for this group, which means I can add / delete / edit people's email addresses from this list. I will always keep it up to date so that you can rest assured that your email is going to the right addresses!!

You will have received an email inviting you to join the group- please accept it as soon as possible so we can get started using it!

Love

Lucy

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Minutes of Just Change London Meeting � Wednesday 23rd August 2006

Held at: The Globe, Covent Garden

People attending: Sven, Eva G, Lucy, David B, Nina, Louise

Apologies: Dave T

Next meeting: Wednesday 6th September, The Globe pub in Covent Garden, 7.00
� 9.00pm

1. Review of Strategy Meeting 23/7/06

1) Subject matter covered

I General Discussion

We commenced by having a general discussion of various issues.

Our first discussion surrounded how often to meet. Louise suggested every month but it was agreed that was not often enough. Every two / three weeks was discussed- easier to remember if it's every two weeks. Agreed that we shouldn't feel guilty about missing meetings and that people will inevitably miss some meetings anyway, whether they are monthly or fortnightly. If we meet more often there is more urgency to take action.

Nina asked what to do about those on email lists who never come to meetings- should we do more to encourage them to come? Lucy felt strongly that we exist to sell tea- not to encourage people to come to meetings. Do people feel like they don't have a role within Just Change London? Perhaps we should make them more defined / re-state them?

Sven had brought tea along to the meeting, which we all took. Agreed that we should buy it at cost price up-front, then sell it on and give the surplus back to JC at the next meeting. This way we are more motivated to get out and sell it, as we've already paid for it! Dave B pointed out that if we each sold it to all our friends / family we could probably sell out! We should buy a pack of receipt books to issue receipts.

Somebody (Nina?) suggested packaging it up for Christmas. Could we have a Christmas marketing drive?

Sven suggested that we use Google Spreadsheets to keep track of tea bought/sold. Lucy pointed out that soon the website will be able to do so. In the meantime we will use Google.

We briefly discussed events- eg Ealing mela- according to Strategy meeting minutes, Sarah and Eva are responsible for Events. Somebody should do market research into South Indian group / Development Trusts / Churches etc. Sven suggested that we need to keep events focused to our core market. Louise noted that we must put more emphasis on networking rather than simply sales.

Lucy noted that we will soon have a lot of newcomers to JC- those who have just completed DFTI 2006. Lucy to email all to establish level of interest etc.. Hopefully newcomers will have new skills / networks.

II Detailed review of Strategy

Next Sven read through the minutes of the Strategy meeting, clarifying / explaining each point.

1. Mission Statement

We all agreed that the Mission statement is excellent and will serve us well
in the future.

2. Division of Labour

We all liked the idea of having action points at the bottom of each minutes. We can then go away and take action, and report back at the next meeting. This will go into the next minutes, so everyone should get to know- saves emailing about each thing. Division of Labour needs to be clearer- document?

3. Internal Communications

Email lists are causing much confusion and people are receiving too many emails. Eva G suggested we use yahoo lists as simple way to keep it up to date. Lucy to set this up and email everyone with details. Just Change Forum (on main website isn't working yet.) Blog is used as a record of all email communication. If someone hasn't had any emails for a while they can check
the blog to see whether they've missed anything / been knocked off the email list. Justchangelondon.blogspot. Lucy suggested we should have our photos/ roles / description of our group on the "Just Changers" section of the website. Lucy to email Manoharan.

6. Accounts / 8. Stock and Supply Chain

Sven brought up the issue of how much we owe to JCUK for tea? We should ask everyone who has taken tea to pay cost price for it now, so at least JC London isn't out of pocket. Who are our biggest debtors? Sarah T still owes, and Bina. Marsh Farm owe us a lot. How should Marsh Farm distribute surplus? Should we have quarterly discussion on how to use surplus?
Dave B suggested Marsh Farm trade directly with JCUK to take the problem off our hands. Louise suggested that we don't want to lose our biggest customer. Someone suggested they should pay us cost price plus a bit extra? Lucy noted that then we are just another middle man. We need to look again at getting MF to store the tea- Nina.

How do we distribute surplus in general? Sven to email Chris Mowles, JCUK. Sven noted that if we aren't in control of our cash, we can't plan for the future etc.

2) Action points for the future

Agreed that we should always start each meeting by running through last meetings action points- outcomes / action taken.

Sven ran through action points from last meeting. Sven's link at Cafe direct (PR)- We need a brand strategy first, before we approach them. Dave B looked into tax on import of tea baga- HMRC said no extra import duty. Louise and Eva- fundraising- haven't looked into this yet.

Nina will look into what events are around next year. Sven to set up a Google Calendar to
record events.

Louise had asked her friend Caroline about doing pro bono work for JC- charity law no longer her field but she will ask her friend. Caroline will also look into her local leukaemia group selling the tea.

Tricia has contacts at the British Council- Dave T / Sven to do a talk there. Do we want to start
selling tea to big organisations? Yes- good to get tea sold. British Council is also good networking agency. Sven suggested we explore the possibilities first before we do a big presentation- meet with them? Male / female to do presentation? Should we do practice presentations/ workshops at meetings?

Tricia had suggested Manor House might buy tea? Louise contacted- they are not.

Louise is contacting Dom form Synergy.

Nina suggested the Community Cafe near NEF.

2. Report from India (Lucy)

1) Explanation of Pricing Issue

Lucy tried to very briefly explain pricing issue as explained by Stan- people seemed to understand! As follows:

The adivasi pick around 240 tonnes per year. Of this, JC sells around 8 tonnes.

The adivasi sell all 240 tonnes to the factory. The factory used to pay a guaranteed minimum price for the tea bought. Now, the market price is so low that they no longer do that- therefore price paid by the factory can be very low.

AMS buys the refined tea back from factory. JC buys the tea from AMS. JC pays a guaranteed premium of 10 rupees per kg (which is a good price).

4 kg of picked teas is needed to produce 1 kg of refined tea. Therefore, the adivasis actually get 2.5 rupees per kg for the tea.

Also, the premium paid by JC is only on the tea that they actually sell- 8 tonnes, compared to the total 240 tonnes picked- so this premium is spread thinly between all pickers.

Therefore, the onus is on us to sell more tea so that the effect is greater!!!!

2) Other JC feedback

Lucy didn't have time to go into great detail about trip to India- at a later date will feed back about JC soap / coconut oil etc. Not matter of urgency now!!

3. Any other business

Lucy reported on money paid into JC Bank account from under her bed. It was as follows:

From Camden Green Fair: £134.50
From London event / other: £349.53
Total: £484.03

We also have a CAF cheque for £30 which needs to be redeemed: this gives us a grand total of
£514.03, plus the £80 that is already in the bank!

4. Action Points to be taken

• Sven Bring tea to every meeting
  Set up Google Spreadsheets
  Set up Google Calendar
  Email Chris Mowles re surplus
  Chase debtors- they should at least pay cost price
  for all tea taken
• All / Marketing team Think bout Christmas packaging / marketing
• Sarah /Eva / Nina Look at events for next year
• Lucy Contact DFTI 2006ers
  Set up Google Email list
  Contact Manoharan re: website
  Fully update contacts database
• Nina Contact Marsh Farm again re: storing there
• Louise / Eva Continue looking at fundraising possibilities
• All Think about British Council presentation- bring ideas to the next meeting?
• Continue chasing up on action points from strategy meeting

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Fwd: JCUK Bank

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From: Chris Mowles <chris@redkitepartners.co.uk>
Date: 25-Aug-2006 10:50
Subject: RE: JCUK Bank
To: Sven Desai <sven.desai@googlemail.com>
Cc: stan@gudalur.com, John Fishwick < john@justchangeuk.org>, nikkivdg@yahoo.co.uk

Hi Sven,

I am copying John into this e-mail since he is the one who has a better idea of cost at the moment. He and I still need to have our sit down and work out our margins, and that will involve my getting my head much more round the finance first.

As for remitting back to India, we have discussed this at Directors' meetings on a couple of occasions and my memory of the discussion is as follows. Provided that we cover their costs, the adivasis have already given us permission to decide what to do with the money since they have encouraged us to do the necessary community development work at our end. We might still decide to remit money to them, but that is up to us. JCUK also needs to ensure that it covers its own costs and has money for development too, in the way that the London group does, and we have discussed, but have not resolved, what the financial relationship should be between different groups round the country and the JCUK. Some directors would push for some kind of a tithe, such as the way MIND works, which asks for an annual contribution from local MIND groups in order that they can go on using the brand. Other Directors are less keen on this idea since they feel that in return for an annual contribution, or cut of the takings, we would need to provide services which we are not a position to do at the moment. I know that John in particular is keen to have this discussion pushed further, since he feels it is at the moral heart of what we are doing that we clarify these financial relationships.

So, where we got to in the meantime, is that whatever choice you make you should be clear about what you're doing and why, not for our sakes alone, but for everyone who is involved in the movement. Actually we're not talking about a huge amount of money at the moment although the principal of openness still applies, to us as well as to you (I don't want to think that I am singling you out!). Make the decision that you feel fulfils the reasons why you are engaged in the project and make the assumptions behind your decision explicit to everyone else.

So I would say that: 1) I'm not sure how much you owe us without talking to John; 2) the Directors have discussed what you propose but have not resolved it; where we have got to in our discussions is closer to your c) than the other two options.

Hope this helps and I am copying my reply to all including John and Nikki to see that I have remembered our discussions correctly.

Best

Mole

Chris Mowles

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From: Sven Desai [mailto: sven.desai@googlemail.com]
Sent: 25 August 2006 08:40

To: chris@redkitepartners.co.uk

Cc: stan@gudalur.com
Subject: Re: JCUK Bank

Chris,

Hello again.

We now have our jam jar banked. The question arises, how much money do we owe you ?

We have taken 128.25 kg of tea.

So far I have been calculating from the costs sent out by Mari, which come up to £4.12 per kg.

This would add up to £528.39

Is this right ?

On a related note. Discussions have been going round in circles regarding what we do with any surplus.

Some time ago we said we pay surpluses across quarterly, but two questions arise, who decides and how much ?

The spectrum of views is this

a. The advivasi should decide how much they would like and how much we should keep for reinvestment

b. We should send over everything

c. We should decide how much we need for reinvestment and send the rest over.

I generally favour the last as I have read far to many case studies of charity businesses failing because lack of investment capital. However, there is the issue that we become the expensive middle man again.

This we could avoid if we got some grant capital. Anyway, I am copying in Stan and I would very much like to hear your and Stan's views on the subject.

(If the £528 figure is accurate then we currently have a surplus of about £50 with about £270 oweing from various sources)

Essentially we are going to need to spend money on printing promotional material.

Errr..that's it

Yours

Sven

On 21/08/06, Sven Desai <mailto:sven.desai@googlemail.com> wrote:

Ta muchly Chris,

Will send you an email as soon as we have our books (relatively) in order.

Yours

Sven

On 21/08/06, Chris Mowles <mailto:chris@redkitepartners.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Sven,

Good to hear that you have your own bank account – I know it takes a long time.

As for JC UK account it's:

Sort: 08 92 99

a/c 69214028

If you make a payment into the main account could you drop me a line explaining what it's for?

As for your supply chain, I am not clear how you are receiving tea at the moment. John Fishwick and I need a long chat about this kind of detail since, although I write the cheques and bank the money, I don't really have a clear overview of the process. That's for me and him to sort out and while we do that I'll see what I can do about your supply chain.

Best

Mole

Chris Mowles

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From: Sven Desai [mailto: sven.desai@googlemail.com]
Sent: 21 August 2006 08:25
To: chris@redkitepartners.co.uk
Subject: JCUK Bank

Dear Chris,

Many moons ago I contacted you regarding JCUK's bank details. I think you were somewhere exotic at the time.

We now have our bank account set up:-

Account name: Just Change London

Sort code: 08 92 99
Account number: 65214239

And from later today should have all our cash banked.

We owe the main body several hundred pounds (£476 at cost price I think), could you furnish me with the JCUK bank details so we can get this paid ?

Thank you.

Also we are having problems getting the tea delivered with any predictability. If there is anything you could do about this it would be a great help as currently our supply chain is not secure enough to take on large customers.

Yours

Sven

Agenda 23.8.06

Subject: Updated email list and meeting tonight
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:21:39 +0000

Please find attached and below agenda for tonight's meeting. Please aim to
arrive at the Globe for 7.15 so we can start the meeting prompt at 7.30.
Email me if you need directions.

Also, the email list has changed once again. We have three new additions to
the list, so ****please ensure you use this list and not any previous
ones!!!****

See you all later

Luce

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Agenda Just Change London Meeting � Wednesday 23rd August 2006, The Globe
pub, Covent Garden, 7.30pm

Those accepted already: Lucy Horitz, David Blair, Sarah Toucas

Apologies: Dave Tucker

Approve minutes of the last meeting

1. Review of Strategy Meeting (Louise / Sven?)

i. Subject matter covered
ii. Action points for future

2. Report from India (Lucy)

i. Explanation of pricing issue raised by Louise
ii. Other JC feedback

3. Any other business

RE: Returned from India

Hi all,

Good news!!

We now have French consumers!
They are people living in a community in the central mountains area
hopefully on a regular basis...

And we have a French relay: Benoît, a friend of mine
I brought the remaining tea box I had at home to Paris with me this time,
and we decided I would do that every time I go to France so that we have
less shipping costs

Hope you're all well and will try to make it at the meeting
Sarah

Subject: Returned from India
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:55:50 +0000

Hi all,
I'm happy to say I've returned safely from India and am happy to uptake my
secretary duties once again!

India was so fantastic once again, very inspiring and gave me all the more
enthusiasm for Just Change. I went and visited some of the other JC
products such as soap and coconut oil being made.... I see a further
extension of JC London in future years!

The attached should be the updated email list (I had changed your address
on the list, George, but it had obviously reverted back). Have also changed
Natasha's address and Eva's. Please let me know if there are still any
problems and I will amend. As Sven says, we will soon be able to use the
automatic system on the website which will be far more efficient.

I'm just off now to Co-op to pay in a whopping lot of cash to our account!
Will email gain to confirm the exact amount once the bank have checked my
counting skills!

It seems the next meeting is this Wed 23rd Sept at 7.30, at the Globe Pub
in Covent Garden. I will phone to reserve a table. Any items for the
agenda, Louise? Any more can be emailed to me at this address> Im going to
try really hard to only use my hotmail address.

Love to all and see you soon

Lucy

Minutes and blog

Dear All,

 

As a record for emails between people and a tool to make sure that people are aware of the various loops and lists that exist we now have a blog at http://justchangelondon.blogspot.com/

 

If you add the email address justchangelondon.teablog@blogger.com to your circular list then the email will appear on the blog (with a little editing to remove endless duplication of previous emails).

 

Currently it has the latest minutes on and the discussion about the ealing mela, and this email as well.

 

I encourage everyone to use it.

 

The main JCUK website is still experiencing teething problems so can't add volunteers to the forum at the moment.

 

Are we meeting in the Globe on wednesday ?
 

Yours 

Sven

Minutes of Strategy meeting 23.7.06

JUST CHANGE Strategy Meeting
Held at Louise's house on 23 July 06

Present: Louise, Sven, Eva, Dave Tucker, Brenna, Anneke Ely
Apologies: Nina, Mat, Sarah, Esi


1. MISSION STATEMENT

We felt it was important to have a vision and mission statement to help us maintain focus as we grow.

The following text was agreed but comments are welcome:
‘Our vision is a world in which trade is based on a just and mutually beneficial relationship between producer and consumer communities, in the interest of human welfare. The equitable shared ownership of the trade process by all stakeholders will foster understanding, dignity and self-reliance, and tackle poverty.’

‘Our mission is to:
a) facilitate social, cultural and economic links between producer and consumer communities [in the London area and with the adivasis of Southern India]
b) to raise awareness of issues resulting from the dominant principles of ownership and structures of international trade
c) to make fairly traded products available to poor communities in the UK
d) to do this by the sale of products, so that the benefit of any surplus generated will go to disadvantaged producer/consumer communities.’

Note: the legal objects of JCUK are ‘the relief of poverty and the promotion of urban and rural regeneration, in particular by assisting poor communities, co-operatives and community groups in developing countries to forge links with similar groups in the UK and other countries to:
a) promote and support mechanisms for the production and distribution of fairly traded goods
b) provide financial and technical assistance or advice to new or existing communities of poor or vulnerable people where this would lead to training and employment opportunities.
c) educate the public in the principles of fair trade.

2. DECISION MAKING & DIVISION OF LABOUR

To improve decision-making, accountability and action, it was agreed:
- to meet once a month with action plans
- action points to be addressed at next meeting
- to work in pairs/small groups for support on particular tasks
- each pair to report progress regularly, including difficulties
- to make decisions by consensus
- a division of labour document to be written

Q: How is the amount of profits kept for float and reinvestment in volunteer work decided?

3. INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS

Contact list to include preferred means of contact (tel/email etc.). Everyone is responsible for keeping their details up to date on the list.

People are receiving too many emails: once arranged, the JC newsgroup/forum and emailable blog (justchangelondon.teablog@blogger.com) to provide alternative method of communication.

The Forum will be the place for discussing JC international issues, the blog will be the place for London volunteers to organize and communicate.


Action:
• All to give their email address to Sven (sven.desai@googlemail.com) to become a member of the JC forum/newsgroup.
• Sven to:
- send out information about forum/newsgroup/blogspot
- add new members
- add link from JC London website to blogspot
• All to add this link to the bottom of their emails once arranged.
• Sven to write dummies' guide to communications for JC generally including forum and blog.


4. SALES

Target markets for tea sales were discussed. We recapped targets suggested by Stan:
- local ethical and healthfood retailers
- local events
- institutions and associations
- co-operatives
- schools
- asian communities
- rural communities
- community shops
- see 3.1 and 3.3 on Stan's strategy document

Tea sold to poorer community groups etc for mutual benefit; to richer communities/ organisations to educate, network and to create surplus to subsidize poorer groups. It was noted that poorer communities often lack economic links to richer communities rather than capability or potential.

Education targets in London: the Guardian, Amnesty

Q: should we look for office groups who would make large orders? -- Not current priority.

Summary of existing contacts and potential markets

Name Notes ACTION
The Guardian Laura Dimmock is contact at the Guardian - new contact required when she leaves Eva to speak to her housemate about this.
British Council Might buy tea but first requires a speaker. Tricia and Sarah in contact. Louise to talk with Tricia about organizing a talk. Then Dave and Sven to give talk

Waiting to hear from Tricia
Young Green Party Contacted at Camden Green Fair. Interested in taking tea for events. None, maybe contact for future

Synergy Project (a community collective) Waiting for reply from Louise's contact Alex from SP, Talk to new contact Dom

Sunseed Spanish eco-cooperative and research centre. Contacted at Camden. Not interested in tea from India as long travel unsustainable None

North London Asian Groups Louise's contact in Bound's Green supplied cups for Camden. Has links with Asian communities in North London. This might also include a printer for publicity material. Louise to contact

Schools Louise is meeting with Mill Hill School in Sept. Hope to eventually get trade games into schools Louise to report on meeting

Edmonton Community House Café / Edmonton Council, Lord Ted Graham of Edmonton
Café supplies a poor area. Council may have policy objectives met by JC tea - e.g. in supplying council premises ethically. Louise has contact with Lord Graham of Edmonton Louise to research, Eva to help.

Manor House Church Community Tricia's contact. May take tea for a café or groups meeting on premises. Council policy possibly relevant here too. Louise and Eva emailed Tricia, waiting to hear back

Palmers Green Café Awareness raising through selling tea. Louise's contact No action -- low priority

Marsh Farm MF will also store tea in Luton. Currently they have taken tea but no money yet received Nina organizing Sven to contact to receive money once bank account arranged

Development Trust Association coordinates local "development trusts" for regeneration. Sven link, might buy tea for community buildings and maybe store it Requires new publicity material – Ed? Sven to contact once publicity arranged.

Squatters often have well-organized networks and are involved with council, police, landlords and community projects in their area. They might buy tea themselves or suggest other places. Sven to research Dave to speak to his friend

Events Very valuable for education and sales esp. over summer Eva, Brenna and Louise to research events & bring to next meeting.

All present to take T-shirts to WOMAD.

Brenna to set up Norwich events for September

5. PRICING

Price displays: cost price should be clearer. Should also be clearer that the adivasis receive nothing if only cost price is paid.

Comparison with the prices of other tea brands could be made.

Calculation of cost price: cost of event (where applicable) should be included in the cost price on display. This will result in a cost price that varies per event.

Action:
• David Blair to recalculate the cost price to include cost of transport to London (petrol) and event costs when held, based on projected sales at the event.

6. ACCOUNTS

In principle, Sven will calculate the surplus from JC London and repay this to JCUK quarterly.

Q: How quickly does JCUK require repayment for tea received?

7. PUBLICITY AND BRANDING

Short, easy-to-read publicity required for shops, events and personal selling including:
- an introduction to JC
- producer stories
- case studies of buyers eg Marsh Farm
- photos
- someone from a community in India explaining JC's impact there - JC India probably already has this

Monthly newsletter needed, probably by email.

Photos of the group members to go on website

Action:
• Eva to email the publicity group and coordinate the above actions.
• All to send Eva their ideas.
• Publicity group to research brand strategy: Cafe Direct may help with professional logistics or PR advice.
• Louise to explore possibility for printing within Asian community: jit rotarty and Middleton Rd guy

8. STOCK AND SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES

Summary:
-109kg tea sold.
- Accounts gaps (60 or 70 bags of 80 unaccounted for - 20 to Brenna, some to Marsh Farm unrecorded). Marsh Farm still has a suitcase.

Possibility of processing tea in London. This would reduce transport costs as tea currently comes from Manchester but requires sufficient sales in the London area to justify processing here. To be considered for a few months' time (Louise and Sven).

Action:
• Sven to talk David Blair about general accounting and supply. Especially the monthly order agreed at a previous meeting and followed up by David Blair.
• David Blair checking on overdue tea order.
• David Blair speaking to John Fishwick about getting a few hundred kilos to Luton for London group to sell.
• Louise to talk to David Blair about possibly changing to London based tea processor.

8a. GENERAL DISCUSSION

Tea in the Pot suggests addressing -
a) logistics: move from processing and distribution with Northern Tea Merchants to storage in Luton, possible processing in London. Distribution still unclear
b) roles:
David Blair (stock, logistics, ordering)
Sven (Treasurer, sales projections/forecasting, accounts, web)
Louise, Sarah, Nina, Brenna, Laura D. (sales/promoters/account teams!)
Lucy Horritz (Secretary, contacts and mailing lists)
Dave Tucker (Chair, events)
Eva and Sarah (events)
Sarah and Nina (community liaison)
Ed, Andrew, Eva (publicity)
c) storage – Sven and Louise have spare space
d) collection from storage – whoever has made the link to sell tea is responsible for collecting it from Sven or Louise
e) how much to order – David Blair to decide this based on sales projections/actual sales
f) how much we plan to sell – 55kg per month
g) how payments are handled – Sven can collect cash or cheques, or pay direct into bank account. There are several signatories to the account who can do this.
h) where the money goes – Louise to ask Stan

Action:
• Sven to pass around bank details. Then people can pay in or send Sven a cheque.
• David Blair to develop sales plan and logistics.
• Sven to help David with above
• Lucy to count money under her bed and put into bank account
• Louise to ask Stan to clarify what's included in cost of tea, including social costs e.g. health care.
• Send a message to Lucy in India about this

8b. HANDLING PAYMENTS

Sellers to pay cost price up front.

Need to clear debts to JCUK first. Discussion of whether to hold surpluses for 3 months, and the need to have at least £100 left for events float, and overheads etc.

Group to decide every 3 months how much goes back to JCUK, how much to be kept for developing JC London.

9. FUNDRAISING AND RESERVES

Capital needed! Grants may be possible. We need money for print runs, Tshirts etc.

Action:
• Louise to research grants via WaterAid.
• Louise & Sven to schedule fundraising meeting after September and (later) get together to produce document.
• Eva, Brenna, Sven and all to research fundraising, especially grants and business link websites.
• Fundraising events to be considered.

10. CONTRACTS AND LEGALS

Consider Memorandum Of Understanding at September meeting. Decided to talk to professionals about contracts later, not a priority!

Account managers/promoters to write up any contracts they negotiate properly. We might need a standard document? Should we put these selling agreements on the website? E.g. Greenhouse cafe (held by Brenna)

We have had offers of pro bono legal work from 2 sources via Dave and Louise

Action:
• Brenna to bring contract to next meeting for consideration
• Dave to find out who the contact was
• Louise to follow up Caroline the lawyer

DATE OF NEXT MEETING

Provisionally Wednesday 23rd Aug (subject to attendance of David Blair and Lucy).

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Re: ealing's london mela

Hi All
Looks like a perfect event for JC but can anyone volunteer to do it at such short notice.I would have liked to have been involved but have committments this weekend
Re leaflets - there were not many available and I needed extras which I printed and had brought in by everyone for the CGF. All those went except a few in B&W.
More will need to be printed off pronto - over 250 were distributed at CGF
Eva still has one of the Ts I did and I have the other one and the posters and banner.
If these are needed someone will have to pick them up before Saturday from here or possibly I could meet them in town late Friday.

Any takers?

Louise

Re: ealing's london mela

I think this would be a great event to do. Shame our radar wasn't up earlier.

How are we for stocks of leaflets/ t-shirts ?

We could go down there and hand out teabags/leaflets and be enthuisastic.

What thinks anyone ?

On 08/08/06, nina jatana <nina.jatana@gmail.com> wrote:

ok Guy's,

A fantastic marketing opp has arisen, check the link below, do you think we can either flog or give the tea away at this South Indian festival?

We have missed the deadline for a stall but there are other less expensive ways, what do you all reckon?

http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/leisure/ealing_summer/mela

JC London bank account

Dear All,

After many moons I can confirm that we now have a bank account in the name of Just Change London with the Co-op bank.

It currently has a balance of £80.25, which will swell when Lucy get back from changing a different part of the world and we can deposit the contents of that jam jar.

For anyone who needs details

Sort code: 08 92 99
Account number: 65214239
Account name: Just Change London

Up the revolution

Yours
Sven