Rain didn’t stop play

Swanage was rained off, so Hastings Rock and Fell club ended up at K2 Leisure Centre in Crawley on Saturday for a considerably drier climb than we would have had out of doors.

I spent this Monday morning folding and stuffing envelopes – not finished on Friday because staff needed to spend time collating and sending out AGM materials earlier in the week. Anyway, it was also really good to send out about 100 ‘do you still exist’ letters with postal copies of our newsletter this month. Hopefully resolving some of the issues where we have been posting stuff to people from our database without any other clear contact from them requesting we continue to do so.

I also responded to an email about profiling the VCS today. Devon Capacity Builders asked if anybody else had been charting the extent of the voluntary and community sector in their own area. So I put my hand up to the fact that we had been doing this as part of our membership renewal work over the past few months.

I sent them a link to our membership renewal download page and an offer to speak to me (as the oily rag) if they wanted to know anything about the pitfalls that are there in trying to make a questionnaire that gets returned.

 It also turns out that NAVCA have a wordy document about this on their webite, which dealso with all the deep stuff what to ask and why.

http://www.navca.org.uk/stratwork/localgov/areaprofiles/vsprofilestoolkit.htm