(Some of) What we did this week…
- Continued to support our active groups on the lead up to April meals, and our new groups with their set up tasks 🚀
- Reached an early milestone in some DEI work we’ve been moving along in the background at Local Welcome. The focus of this work is on increasing and improving the involvement of people with lived experience of being a refugee or person seeking sanctuary in the strategy, decision-making and running of Local Welcome. We’ll share more updates soon 😊
- Spent time with a fantastic pro-bono digital marketing expert who shared a wealth of insight and advice on ways in which we can achieve advertising results 📢
Reminder: June meal dates
As you all know, as of this month we have shifted to offering on call support on the 1st Saturdays and Sundays of the month. As we were planning this change, we identified some unusual months where the 1st Saturday/Sunday occasionally fall on different weekends - June is the first example of this!
In these cases, we will offer on-call support on the weekend on which the month begins. This means that in June, on-call support will be available on Sat 31st May and Sun 1st Jun. Therefore, please keep this in mind as you plan ahead and book in meals. As a memo, this ‘rule’ is also documented in the meal booking form.
Arabic posters now available!
Arabic posters to support in the advertising of your meals are now available in the Leader Portals of all our active groups! To access these:
- Find the link to your leader portal in the description of your LW Leaders WhatsApp group chat
- Scroll down to ‘About our Group’ and open the collapsible heading by clicking on the small arrow to the left
- Scroll down to find the ‘Our Posters’ heading and click on the small arrow to the left to reveal the buttons to download the English and Arabic posters
As always, please remember to review this safety guidance in the Leader Handbook before downloading and sharing any posters: ‣
(Some of) What we’re doing next week…
- Continuing to support our groups in preparing for April meals 🥗
- Preparing to roll out our new membership cards to more groups in April 🪪
- Continuing ongoing tests on advertising methods 📢
Photo of the week
Who can spot the shiny new membership card in this photo from Norwich’s Feb meal? 🤔
