What we did this week…
- Debriefed Norwich’s meal 📝
- Supported our Belfast leaders in preparing for their first meal this Saturday 🚀
- Celebrated our Liverpool leaders finding themselves a new venue, and booking in their next meal in May, after several months of hard work searching together 🎉
- Celebrated our Birmingham leaders officially booking in their first meal in May, after months of working hard together to launch 🎉
- Focused on designing some social media posts and ads to recruit more leaders for groups who’ve shared that they’d like to have some more leaders on their team. We’ve mentioned recently that we’ve been having some ongoing issues with Meta ‘rejecting’ (refusing to post) our ads on Instagram and Facebook. Using social media ads has been the easiest way of finding new leaders and members in the past, so this has been very frustrating! We hope that the planning and design work we’ve done this week will lead us to more success in the coming weeks - we’ll keep you updated on progress 💪
- Published a new page on our website called “Book onto a meal” - we’ve heard from you (our leaders) that you’d like a link to share with friends, so it’s easy for them to find and book onto meals. We’re not ready to link this page to the header or footer of our website quite yet - this requires some more consideration, as it’s a change to how we currently ask people to sign up. However, we hope we that it’s still helpful to share with you all in the meantime: https://www.localwelcome.org/book-onto-a-meal 🍲
An update on our donate-what-you-can membership model
Recently, we’ve had to slow down on releasing our donate-what-you-can membership model.
This has been for a few reasons, including our team’s capacity and competing priorities (like fixing advertising issues to find more leaders, and supporting new groups with first meals).
Most of all, we don’t want to rush - this is a big change in the way we’ve been doing things since launching Local Welcome, and we want to do this as well as possible!
We’re now working towards launching in May, and will keep you posted.
In preparation for this, all meal booking pages this month, and in May have been set to offer only free tickets. This is because we don’t want any members to feel that they’re being asked to make double payments if they’ve paid for a ticket already, and are then invited to set up a monthly donation!
(Some of) What we’re doing next week…
- Debriefing Belfast’s meal 📝
- Continuing to work (and monitor progress) on the advertising challenge! 📈
- Turning our attention back to working on our donate-what-you-can membership model 💰
- Supporting our Liverpool and Birmingham groups as they work towards their first meals in May 🚀
Photo of the week
Beautiful home-grown spring flowers brightening up tables at Derby’s meal earlier this month! 💐