(Some of) What we did this week…

• Debriefed your May meals and started setting up your confirmed June meals 🥗
• Debriefed last week’s safeguarding training course (facilitated by Psych-logical) together as a team and decided what to do to make Local Welcome even safer 📋
• Finalised more details on our celebratory 10th birthday event (see more below!) ⬇️

💌Grow the Welcome: Celebrating 10 Years, Imagining the Future

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Hi everyone,

We’re excited to invite you to our event - Grow the Welcome: Celebrating 10 Years, Imagining the Future! 🎉

🗓️ Date: Saturday 19th September

📍 Location: The Priory Rooms Meeting and Conference Centre (Quaker Meeting House, 40 Bull St, Birmingham B4 6AF)

⏱️ Time: 10:30am-3:30pm

We’d love to bring together volunteers, members and partners from across the UK to celebrate this milestone. Please note: We can cover the costs of your travel to and from the event.

What to expect

A celebratory day that will bring our national community together to celebrate 10 years of Local Welcome, share our future plans and spend time together in person.

🌟 A session with reflections, future plans and an inspiring pitch from our team and trustees

🍽 A meal that will be prepared by all of us as one big group - in true Local Welcome style

💬 An interactive ‘unconference’ session where everyone in the room has a say on the agenda led by our trustee and Cardiff leader, Clare Price, exploring ideas and challenges together for the 10 years ahead

We’re still finalising the details, but we hope this gives you a flavour of the day and something to look forward to!

Register your interest

As we have limited capacity, we want the process to allocate places to be as fair and transparent as possible.

• We are offering two places per group to begin with. This might increase depending on uptake across other groups
• This is not first-come, first-served
• If a group is oversubscribed, places might be re-allocated
• We will aim to ensure leader representation from each of our 10 groups - we want to see as many of our groups as possible on the day!

👉 Please register your interest by Wednesday 20th May via this form.

We’ll confirm places shortly after the deadline once we’ve received everyone’s submissions.

Local Welcome wouldn’t be what it is without our incredible networks of leaders, and we can’t wait to celebrate this very special day with you!

Best wishes,

Hannah, Celia, Andrew & Rhiannon - The Local Welcome Team

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Feedback of the week 💬

Q: What did you like most about the whole day? A: “Friendly atmosphere and enthusiasm from the children” - Newham

(Some of) What we’re doing next week…

• Continuing to set up and promote your confirmed June meals 🥗
• Reviewing responses to our member impact survey & preparing to send out our leader impact survey 📊
• Celia, Hannah & Andrew are taking a rare opportunity to work in-person 👋

Photo of the week

Derby’s ‘Wall of Hope’ & Leicester’s ‘Banner of Hope’ as both group’s engaged with the ‘A Million Acts of Hope’ campaign at their May meals last weekend 🧡

Leicester

Derby

Thank you for reading 💜

The Local Welcome Team - Celia, Hannah, Andrew and Rhiannon