30 leaders from 12 institutions attended this year’s annual Leaders Forum at MK Academy on 24th November. The aim of the evening was to share issues of concern arising from each institution’s listening to its people, then to prioritise the issues of common concern across our alliance according to importance and urgency.
In the process, four issues were identified as worthy of further research, based on a combination of support in the room and the volunteering of a leader to lead further research and development of a SMART campaign goal for presentation to Delegates Assembly on 9th February. It was also shown that our existing Weaving Trust, Refugees Welcome and Living Wage campaigns have sufficient support to continue into next year. Weaving Trust had overwhelming support.
For summary of the issues raised and how institutions supported them, click here: Leaders Assembly 2015 results.
The four new issues identified for further research are:
- Affordable bus transport (research team lead is Daniella Ghansah)
- Homelessness (research team lead is Anna Kearns)
- Youth Space (research team lead is Mary Stone)
- Community Energy (research team lead is Marie Osborne).
A series of three meetings will be held between now and then for interested parties to come together to do this research. The dates of these meetings are Tuesdays 4pm at Acorn House on 8th December, 12th January 2016 and 2nd February (details on our Events page). If you would like to attend, please contact Tom.
The wheels are in motion! The challenge now is for institutional leaders to organise turnout of 5 people from each institution to attend the Delegates Assembly on 9th February. There we’ll decide which campaigns to work on in 2016-17.