10/01/21

minutes (10/01/21) 

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 10/01/21

Time: 2pm

Location: Online


ATTENDEES

Members

  1. Jonah Graham

  2. Erica Chan

  3. Peter Kissack

  4. Anne Sim

  5. Fliss Barrows

  6. Allen Drews

  7. Freddy Sperring

  8. Amy Rees

  9. Megan Hogg

  10. Amanda Ong


Apologies

  1. Scott McCarter 


ORDERS OF BUSINESS

REPORTS

Allen

  • allen had finance training before the break

  • two people need to have training

  • allen to ask scott about the situation, and if he cannot another exec member will get training


Jonah

  • only one person has signed up for the teams committee, Jonah to push with the reps and to push with the campaigns committee

  • working on getting the uni to budge on the petition for some items on it, jonah to try arranges a presidents this week in order to have a coordinated strategy apart from the petition and to have priority demands listed out for the uni

  • jonah will be on the student support review this week in order to have a professional talk with them

  • if anyone has any ideas, to message jonah

  • meeting date not confirmed as it depends on when the presidents are available, hopefully by the end of next week, ASAP


Erica

  • megan, freddy, erica, and anne are meeting for LBGT+ history month with SS dept at 2-3pm


Peter

  • welfare is doing drop ins, made adjustments to how they are doing things to make things more accessible

  • peter and amy want to have a mix of different content every week so people can have a package of welfare stuff; signposting, answering questions, posting pictures of pets and stuff, if any of the exec members have ideas they can message peter as well

  • have heard yesterday from one of the working class reps that they want to make a facebook and insta, peter to help

  • wednesday social media → template made on canva for a post for the plan of what it is supposed to be

  • allen suggested that since we have the finance resources, we can send out a welfare package where people can sign up and give address so that they can have some welfare stuff, maybe small letters and sweets

  • possible data issues

  • peter and allen to discuss


SOCIAL EVENTS

  • wed coffee

  • chat and make crap

  • discord games

  • have had fairly good turn out

  • request for money for jackbox games: roughly £18.99

  • discord games for the 16th

  • allen to message scott

  • erica can give login to their account if we cannot get it in time

  • book club

  • all uploaded on social media


REFRESHERS FAIR

  • there is going to be a refreshers fair, jonah needs to give a list of socials to the SU by midnight this evening

  • anyone has anything to include to message jonah by 6pm today

  • if anyone has any events can also add to freddy’s google sheets

  • happening 30th and 31st of jan, to have a rota and schedule with the exec members (if anyone cannot make it, just notify jonah)


PLANS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA

  • megan suggested to have more organization with what we are posting as currency it can be a bit messy with people posting multiple posts in one day

  • megan has a spreadsheet, she will send into the group 

  • if the exec wants to post anything, to fill into the google sheet to ensure that there will not be multiple posts in one day


COLLAB WITH SEXPRESSIONS

  • amber got in touch with jonah if we wanted to do a collab with lgbt history month, and there are currently suggestions of having a collaboration with the book club and a zoom event

  • book club idea: joint book club with sexpressions for using a sex positive book

  • zoom: dress up as fav historical / literary figures

  • jonah to talk more with amber about it 

  • might talk to tlc who did a big queer house party to ask them how to run a good event like this 

  • if amber wants to do sth with the bookclub, usually the poll for the books will come up a few days after the meeting (this sunday), so the collab information will have to come in before then


ZOOM SOCIAL

  • monday night zoom osbournes 

  • there is hesitation about this as there was mixed feedback from last term from other society’s zoom club night

  • the typical scenario of these events is that there are a lot of people who seemed to already know each other, and it can be difficult to go off on your own to have separate chats

  • proposed to use a website with proximity chats instead: when freddy did the form for social, there were people who were willing to try sth new, can have a gimmick to try and interest people to joining

  • themed break out rooms: social, chill, diff music in each

  • proposed to design the place to look like osbournes as a way of replacing monday nights

  • a platform that was proposed was gathertown

  • a few of the exec can try it out first to see how it goes

  • unsure if people can play music throughout the entire thing


MURDER MYSTERY PARTY

  • this was most popular thing suggested on the google forms

  • currently, there is issues on how to conduct it, but freddy is trying to work something out

  • suggestion to conduct it on gathertown

  • has separate rooms 

  • can put in documents


RECOMMENDATIONS HUB

  • (mentioned previously under Peter’s reports) welfare wednesday to have more things on it such as anonymous questions and pictures of pets 

  • this new update is to be to put in email and put on insta stories 


ADVICE CHANNEL

  • there has been some questions about advice for newly out people on the discord

  • freddy going to make a new channel in discord: ask elder gays anything (title pending) 

  • also possibly to do a welfare post


RADIO SHOW

  • jonah taking the lead for radio show on his own this term as fliss unfortunately cannot record anymore due to them being back home

  • if anyone wants to be guest host, they can message jonah

  • jonah looking for a rotating guest host spot

  • possible questions: tell us a couple songs that mean a lot, happy moments, etc