We need you – Save the National Glass Centre

2024 has arrived and we need committed people to help!

By Jo Howell

As a campaign that is run entirely by volunteers from the community, and in fact from further afield, we have achieved a lot in a year.

The public meeting way back in June 2023, was well attended, and we have had a regular core group of 5 who have attended meetings on zoom and in person, and a regular in-person group of between 8 and 12.

Everyone has come to the campaign with various different backgrounds, talents, and strengths.

We are looking for some extra people to commit to our monthly zoom meetings.

We need some help digitally to ease the workload for those who have already given so much.

Do you want to help Save the National Glass Centre? Can you commit to regular attendance, and a voluntary workload?

We need the following skills:

• Social media marketing – regular updates across all platforms twice weekly
• Proficiency with google drive, google docs, spreadsheets, digital literacy.
• Minutes and record keeping – weekly online and in-person once a month. Including meeting agendas, invites, and meeting reports.
• Organisation – updating the team, events, excellent filing skills, coordination of different tasks across the team.
• Data management – properly filed, and stored with data protection regulations met.
• Research – archive, public data, personal stories, heritage, social equity, local economy, wider cultural landscape.
• Letter writing – MPs, newspapers, governors, funders, heritage bodies, etc
• Emailing newsletters – monthly newsletters with up to date info, fresh photographs, exciting and inviting, easy to read.
• Blog and website management
• YouTube and moving image content creators

Also in the coming months we are going to need:

Fundraisers, accountants, finance officers, policy writers and similar.

Please email Jo Howell with details of which area you can commit to help with.

You will need to have availability to attend for 1 hour Zoom meetings currently every Friday evening at 6pm, and in-person meetings are the 3rd Thursday of every month, 6pm at the Queen Vic Hotel in Roker, Sunderland.

We do have some excellent writers, photographers, industry professionals, and glass artists on board.

The second year of our campaign is going to have to raise the bar, and we need you to help.

Email: savethengc@gmail.com Include which area you are interested in helping us with, and a short paragraph about your experience.

Read through our website and blog, and share this with anyone you think could be a good fit for the campaign.

Thank you!

All the best

Jo Howell

And everyone working in the Save the National Glass Centre Campaign