Dear movement colleagues
I thought you might like to hear about a new WMUK initiative, following
on from our recently-completed staff restructure. We are hopeful our
local community will react positively to much greater levels of
volunteer engagement.
Our initiative might be of interest to other chapters who are trying -
as we are - to get away from a perception of not being sufficiently open
to community involvement.
Also, we are looking for movement-wide input. If you can provide
thoughts, ideas or feedback, do please make contact.
For the full details on wiki see:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015
Best regards
Michael
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Michael Maggs
Chair, Wikimedia UK
*From:* Michael Maggs
*Date:* 5 June 2015 14:38
*To:* "wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org"
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*Subject:* [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action
Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so
that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity.
We plan to:
* Establish a new volunteer engagement panel
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel> or
steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer
engagement
* Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new
evaluation panel <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel>
* Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working
groups <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups> to replace the
existing non-board committees
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees>
* Set up cultural/GLAM
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board> and
educational outreach
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board>
expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level
strategy
* Change our Articles of Association
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted>
to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees
* Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project
coordinator <https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator>
staff roles
* Move toward project-based
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working> working
practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation
of our work
These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from
our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015>.
They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about
implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the
answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions.
The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can
be improved, strengthened and fleshed out.
We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next
Volunteer Strategy Gathering
<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015>
on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the
links on the right.
Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the
discussion page, or you can email chairatwikimedia.org.uk if you have
feedback you would prefer not to make public.
To read the full details on wiki see here:
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015
Best regards
Michael
_______
Michael Maggs
Chair, Wikimedia UK
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