Meeting 1st February 2022
Our next meeting will be 1st February 2022 by Zoom Please download the agenda here Please find the Farming Update for Item 7 here Please note that we have changed this from a hybrid in person/zoom meeting to a fully zoom meeting and the zoom code will be sent out nearer the time. If you would like to attend, but are not already on the DCRF group email list, please email pennybody1@outlook.com If anyone has a particular gift in helping to run zoom meetings could they let me know as it would be helpful for AD Verena to be able to chair the meeting and have someone else manage the admin and break out groups. At our meeting in November we took the opportunity to review the work of the DCRF over the past five years and to consider both our work and organisation going forward. There was significant enthusiasm to work more in “Task Groups” with “Champions” for the different identified work streams. At the meeting itself several people offered their services in these ways, and we would now like to take this further and formalise some new groups and aims at our meeting on 1st February. The main advantages of working in this way will be that work can be progressed more easily in between meetings, and by bringing the “Champions” together to form a steering group for the DCRF we can more easily plan and shape our annual programme of themes and events. As a summary, the work streams agreed at our meeting on 2nd November are shown below. Please could you look at these before the meeting and email me (Penny) to let me know which areas you would be most interested in working in – potentially in a task group or as the “Champion” for that work stream. If you are unable to join in at the meeting, then please email me your interest areas anyway, and I can put you in touch once the shape of the groups emerges from the meeting. In our meeting, we will then gather people with similar interests into breakout groups which can then begin to flesh out some aims for each area of work, and agree a champion for the work stream who is able to represent that area of work within our new steering group. If you are unable for whatever reason to take on a role within a task group – you will always be welcome to participate in the Forum meetings themselves, so please don’t feel under pressure. The work of the DCRF has always been shaped by the expertise and interests of its members – so we are not necessarily trying to fill holes and make groups for each work stream. Paraphrasing the adage from Mission Shaped Church “Discern what God is doing and join in” – we would like to discern where there is interest, enthusiasm and energy, and follow these areas of work as our priorities – we can never do everything!
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