Reminder: Add your check-in to the UK Democracy Bulletin!
James Moulding
You can now add your fortnightly check-in to this week's UK Democracy Meetup document.
The Democracy Meetup is a fortnightly check-in session, where you can plug your project, let others know what you've been working on, or are working towards - perhaps you've secured new grant funding or expanded your team, this is the place to let everyone know and share the gossip.
Your contributions to this week's Democracy Meetup document will be summarised and highlighted into next week's UK Democracy Bulletin and distributed to more than 400 UK democracy organisations.
If this is your first time, or you'd just like to see some friendly faces - join the brief 30-minute UK Democracy Meetup at 2pm today. We'll be getting together on this shared document, you can find the Zoom for today's 2pm session here, or at the top of the document. Feel free to add suggestions for break out rooms and discussion themes at the bottom of the Meetup doc.
Can't make 2pm? You can jot down your check-ins (it only takes 2 minutes!) and share your updates at any time until next Monday 13th June at 12 midday.
Why is this important?
The UK democracy sector is fragmented, we don't speak to each other near enough and organisations often miss out on resources, funding, research and useful information that's key to building a better, healthier democracy. Together with organisations and initiatives like the Democracy Network, we're working to remedy this.
Every fortnight our team reads every single newsletter from all 750+ democracy organisations in the UK so you don't have to. After you write your check-ins on the meetup document, we summarise these updates, combine them with highlights and key info from the newsletters and distribute them back to this list of more than 250 democracy organisations via the UK Democracy Bulletin.
We also use this information to populate our jobs, funding & events database with the latest research and news, maintaining a shared knowledge base and archival space for the sector.
Add a fortnightly meetup reminder to your calendar
Can't make it this week but sounds like your thing? Add an event reminder to your calendar.
Check out the last issue of UK Democracy Bulletin on Medium.
If the timing of the Democracy Meetup doesn't work for you or your organisation, or you'd like to suggest any changes, please do let us know at he...@centrefordemocracy.org.uk.
Hope to see you all later,