minutes 06/07/20

minutes (6/7/20) 

LGBT+ Association Meeting

Date: 6/7/20

Time: 11am

Location: Online

ATTENDEES

Members

  1. Jonah Graham

  2. Allen Drews

  3. Fliss Barrows

  4. Erica Chan

  5. Amy Rees

  6. Scott McCarter 

  7. Peter Kissack

  8. Anne Sim

  9. Freddy Sperring

  10. Amanda Ong

Apologies

  1. Megan Hogg 

ORDERS OF BUSINESS

REPORTS

jonah

  • to confirm with euan swift about emails

  • ben made jonah a facebook admin

  • exec agreed to not endorse candidates for any elections

  • posted the tab article

EXEC JUMPERS

  • used to money from the pot last year, tbc for this year 

  • colors were discussed: vetoed orange, yellow, light blue, white, and black

  • possibly a light purple

  • fliss to create a google docs with certain colors and the Exec will vote on it

FEEDBACK ON HATFIELD SOCIAL

  • was a fun social, the person who was running it was emerson

  • they did games that worked quite well

  • raised quite a bit of money £160

STATUS OF REACHING OUT TO LGBT / DIVERSITY COLLEGE REPS

  • fliss has just received their handover notes that morning so they did not have time to get a list yet

  • they will contact the reps within the next week and will try to make another group chat

  • decided that if fliss cannot get in contact with them someone else can help out as well

PLANS FOR SOCIALS

  • this week will be the netflix party for disclosure at 6pm on the 11th, Saturday

  • the details for the watch party are to be sent and advertised on facebook

  • plans to have socials once a week

  • next week’s social event is planned to be the east asian queer history talk and q&a

  • Freddy has also planned kahoot, jeopardy game, murder mystery, and other socials that can be spaced out during the summer

  • Freddy has also created a canva account that the exec can access (link was sent to the exec group chat) and they have uploaded posters to the account

  • any posts for events can now be uploaded to canva so everyone from the exec can access it

CAMPAIGNS COMMITTEE UPDATE

  • more people have now signed up for the committee

  • the post advertising the committee has been pinned to the top of the facebook page so more people can see it

  • plan is that the committee will start with ongoing campaigns, but if any members have suggestions for new projects they will also be working on that


WELFARE

  • currently, there are welfare wednesdays where welfare will post either encouraging posts or resources to help with isolation and covid

  • also compiling a bunch of charity and helplines

EAST AISAN QUEER HISTORY TALK UPDATES

  • k has replied to us and the plan currently is to post the talk on monday and have the q&a later in the week

  • this will act as the upcoming week’s social

  • to ask k about whether he would prefer having a recorded q&a like the lecture itself, a live q&a, or a written reply q&a

  • may have a time limit for the q&a, also should have moderation to prevent heckling

BOOK CLUB AND LIBRARY

  • tabled for next week as megan is not present

FLYERS FOR FRESHERS

  • would be helpful for the freshers

  • need to order and design them

  • fliss will order to flyers to their house

  • the previous leaflets had all the contacts and on the back had lgbt terminology, which could be nice to replicate

WELFARE HANDBOOK

  • welfare is aiming to create a welfare handbook about what they can provide and what they can’t

  • to be published to facebook

  • will contain what welfare can offer them and signposts to other resources for where they cannot provide assistance

FINANCE

  • training for scott has not occurred yet, therefore he does not have access to the finance accounts

  • however, we do still have leftovers from the previous year that we can use