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What have the Exec been doing?

One month in...

James Frith, National Publicity Officer

Wednesday 10th of May 2017

Quick monthly catch up with the national exec...

Josh Smith - Chair

Launched the first ever full membership survey to give every member the opportunity to give their opinions on every aspect of SSAGO; complete the survey here.
Introduced post event feedback forms and collected feedback on the past three national events.
Started looking into getting the Memorandum of Agreement which defines how Scouting, Guiding and SSAGO all work together and support each other finalised.
Nearly completed a new SSAGO as a Charity report.
Held another Exec Meeting. (The minutes are online here.)
Have started looking at updating how Reps is run to make it more representative. (Please let us know who you club Rep is here.)
Completed and submitted my dissertation!

Lauren Whittaker - Secretary

Anona Mann - Members Officer

Sent out many many emails, checking up on new groups and asking why people haven’t submitted membership yet!
Been organising OxonJam with James help we are 11 people signed up and it was very exciting.
I climbed up a mountain while looking silly (with a camera strapped to my head) for the intention of creating cool soon to be SSAGO videos to help promote SSAGO.
Planned my Leeds Rally costume, as well as looking at making the SSAGO committee some very Jazzy knitted wear!
I made a pretty map with rough regions of ssago groups that were from the previous membership stuff, but created two different option that can be used as a rough guide to help clubs

James Frith - Publicity Officer

Got more SSAGO news articles on the go, and started building the SSAGO press team! If you or your club have won an award (be it a Scouting, Guiding or Student award), let Melissa and I know at success@ssago.org
Designed and distributed the new Exec clothing and MOOT merchandise, and promoted SSAGO throughout the UK Contingent for MOOT! Another order will be up on the SSAGO shop very soon so keep an eye out!
Created a few "SSAGO Support" events (such as "OxonJam", "Gilwell 24" and "Wellies and Wristbands") and have organised more volunteering opportunities (such as "Magic and Mayhem" and "Poacher International Jamboree") to be released very soon, check them out on our SSAGO events page!
Continued working on publicity concepts for videos, banners, etc, will take to the media team in due course, so watch out for that too!
Lots of emails (we WILL get our SASU!) and social media-ing (What will SSAGO celebrate next? ;) )... and exam revision!

Beatrice Phanjoo - International Officer

Larah Korrison - Archivist

Laura Payne - SAGGA liason

Uploaded several years' worth of two SAGGA members' memories of SSAGO to the archive
Corrected the spelling of SAGGA on three separate occasions
Worked out why I wasn't receiving any SSAGO emails any more (my bad...)
Helped bring six beautiful babies into the world (you don't have to put that one haha)

Oliver Bills - Webmaster

Created ability for clubs to specify their representatives
Added a list of all clubs reps, and created reps@ssago.org email address for contacting reps
Updated the events system to make it better and easier to create events
Updated and tested the SSAGO Shop with Moot and Exec merchandise
Switched all of SSAGO sites and sub-sites over to HTTPS
Further developed the survey system ready for the full-members system
Enhanced the news system to make it easier to develop and publish news stories
Upgraded the server that the SSAGO website runs on and upgraded the site to work on the new infrastructure

Vicky Sanderson - Notifications