(Some of) What we did this week…

• Continued to set up and promote your confirmed June meals 🥗
• Analysed the results of our member impact survey - we can’t wait to share some insights with you soon! 📊
• Hosted a safety refresher with our brilliant Cardiff leaders - if you’ve not had yours yet don’t worry - we’re still working our way through booking in with each group slowly but surely! 😊

📢 Take part in our annual leader impact survey

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Please note: this is a different survey to the member impact one we’ve been sharing via email & social media in recent weeks.

🌐 Link to form: Click here to fill out your leader impact survey ⏰ Deadline: Monday 25th May, 9am

Help us continue cooking, eating & making a difference by taking 10 mins to share your experiences and feedback on our meals via our annual leader impact survey!

Our goal is to become 100% membership funded one day, but our existence currently relies on us sharing your feedback and up-to-date data on our meals with funders.

We also rely on these insights to help us continue improving the experience of being a Local Welcome leader. You can leave your name or complete it anonymously and most questions are also optional.

Thank you in advance! Taking a moment to share your experiences truly makes a difference. If you have any questions, please reach out to us.

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💌 Reminder: Please RSVP to our event - 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 💬

This quote from our member impact survey:

“The joy and happiness of meeting new people, having laughters together, eating together as a family, most importantly making me feel home always and having connections with new people.” - Leicester (Member)

(Some of) What we’re doing next week…

• Continuing to support you in preparing for June meals 🥗
• Analysing responses to our leader impact surveys 📊
• Making changes & improvements to the way we work to reduce time spent on manual admin tasks 👩‍💻

Photo of the week

Newham getting stuck into handmade pizza decorating this month! 🍕

Thank you for reading 💜

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