Transition Brighton and Hove forum meeting

At a general meeting in early May we decided to start a monthly Forum for all those actively involved in TB&H. This will include someone from each working group (Transition Interest Groups, Functional groups – such as funds and finance, publicity and media, education and training, Project Groups and any Neighbourhood group) – but everyone else is welcome to attend. These Forum meetings, and introductory evenings for newcomers, will replace general monthly meetings.  

The aim of the Forum: it is proposed the Forum will support and co-ordinate all projects going on in TB&H, decide on strategic or organisational issues, and an ongoing plan to realise our aims. We need to agree this proposal at this first meeting.

Aims and Principles of TB&H: we decided on 7th May to draft our purpose and aims (building on the aims or objects already in our constitution) and the principles that will guide how we work together, make decisions and carry out our projects. These aims and principles will provide a structure so that our groups can self-organise and take on initiatives. We plan to do this as an interactive group exercise.

We need at the end to agree how we divide our time at future Forum meetings between project support (with an open agenda) and strategic or organisational issues. We already have in the pipeline looking at the output from the 7th May review of TB&H, deciding how to move forward from here and to plan the way ahead over the next 6 months or year.