2020-05-14 Meeting

History -read top of https://gay.hfxns.org/ElderBerries

Governance: very very loose society structure

• we have an ex officio and an ex ex officio board members
• The board does multiple jobs: Chair also does the newsletter; Secretary also does membership
• Collections at events. Will be asking for online collections if necessary.

At the moment we have

• 279 people to contact by email
• 8 we phone
• FB page has 380 likes and 434 follows (not sure how that relates)
• Obviously some overlap

Activities

• social events
• "Speaker's Bureau"
• lobbying / political work: fairly effective

On very good terms with the local large old folks home, Northwood -

Bad Northwood news.

Social events are totally carte blanche

• Show Patricia Martinson
• Always have some kind of food- particulars are announced before
• Almost always have a "pass the hat"

Feedback from a survey

• inconvenient times
• don't like the food
• can't travel
• don't like the venue

Zoom experience

• people who have never been to a meeting
• Did a very successful grief counselling session
• People like the social times

Elderberries built on to the Over 30s

Suggestion: just start doing it and invite people.