Reports 26Apr11

Below are the Board reports to the Board Meeting on 26 April 2011; see Agenda 26Apr11.

Templates for actions: Done, Carried forward, Cancelled.

Roger Bamkin (Chair)

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Actions

• All to produce a short profile for the website. Also to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'.

Mike Peel (Secretary)

Done recently

• Change of board: email addresses (see [1]), mailing lists (board, office, chapters), wikis (board, office, chapters); internal-l subscriptions (thanks to dungodung)

Tasks to do

• Import task lists...
• Sort through / close off old email addresses

Actions

• MP to sort out email addresses + board and office lists for new board members. Done
• MP to set up access to blog for board members, and admins on facebook.
• MP to remove TD from CiviCRM, and to add CK. Other board members not to be added at this time.
• All to produce a short profile for the website. Also to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'.

Andrew Turvey (Treasurer)

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Discussion / review items

• Review of upcoming fundraising-related deadlines
• Membership approvals
• Participation in 2011-12 fundraiser; meta:Fundraising 2011/Chapter Fundraising Agreement

Actions

• AT to notify Companies House and Charities Commission of the election of the new board.
• AT to send a memento of our gratitude to the teller, outgoing board members, and speakers (excluding new board members), from WikiConference UK 2011
• AT to investigate debit cards for bank account signatories.
• AT to investigate how we can move to multiple signatories for large transactions.
• AT to investigate term deposits and return to the board with options.
• AT to email around details of the interested candidate to be an office manager, and to also advertise the position externally.
• TD to give AT the password for the main paypal account. AT to give all board members read-only access to the paypal account.
• AT to send around detailed information about the facilitation for the strategy discussion; decision to be made by email. Fæ to look into background, and to pin down specific outcomes (with SV). CK has contacts in this sector; will ask for a competitive quote. Fæ to take the lead with this topic.
• All to produce a short profile for the website. Also to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'.

Chris Keating (Director)

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Actions

• CK to email around a summary of his internal communications review.
• AT to send around detailed information about the facilitation for the strategy discussion; decision to be made by email. Fæ to look into background, and to pin down specific outcomes (with SV). CK has contacts in this sector; will ask for a competitive quote. Fæ to take the lead with this topic.
• All to produce a short profile for the website. Also to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'.

Martin Poulter (Director)

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Actions

• All to produce a short profile for the website. Also to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'.

Fæ (Director)

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Actions

• AT to send around detailed information about the facilitation for the strategy discussion; decision to be made by email. Fæ to look into background, and to pin down specific outcomes (with SV). CK has contacts in this sector; will ask for a competitive quote. Fæ to take the lead with this topic.
• All to produce a short profile for the website. Also to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'.

Steve Virgin (Director)

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Actions

• All to produce a short profile for the website. Also to put together a summary of what they 'bring to the party'.