The Networking Group is one of the Development Groups.

Vision: A world where organisations and people working towards a more sharing society work openly together for the benefit of all.

Mission: This group is responsible for making and maintaining links with organisations and people with whom Freelending CIC has or would like to have a working relationship.

Aims (Q1 2010):

To maintain and deepen the relationships with LetsAllShare and the Freeconomy.
To create relationships with Freecycle and/or Freegle groups.

Contents of this Group's Home Page:

Next Meeting - last week of July 2010 (details to follow, or contact us)
1. Agenda Items
Agenda Items for a Future Meeting:
Organisations that Freelending CIC could network with:
Wiki Pages for which this development group is solely responsible:
Pages for which this development group is jointly responsible:

Next Meeting - last week of July 2010 (details to follow, or contact us)

Click here to get details of how to join the Networking Group Teleconference.

(If these meeting arrangements do not suit and you want to be involved please use the contact form link here)

Agenda Items

Date of next meeting.
Decisions made at previous meeting - are they a correct record?
Actions outstanding from previous meetings.
Building an even-better working relationship with ecomodo.com
Building on our working relationship with Freegle, Lets All Share and the Centre for Peaceful Solutions, as embeded at the UK Aware event.
The bigger picture as painted on this (private business) page
Inviting many more colleagues to contribute to the freelenders blog; particularly as it is now introduced with the following words:

"Which is your favourite way of saving resources and building community? Freecycling? Freegle? Freeconomy? Freelender? LetsAllShare.com? Ecomodo? "There's nothing I own that can't be borrowed or fractionally owned”(Paul Crosland, co-director, Freelending CIC). This blog is the top UK source for information on the developments/developers within the 'sharing & gift economics' sector."

& Next steps in:

talking to magazines
talking to organisations working in the same sector
negotiating mutual links on websites
offering the freelender service to organisations who could benefit from it
creatively looking out for unexpected opportunities
distributing publicity material.

Agenda Items for a Future Meeting:

Setting up a 'Getting the most out of freelender.org" clinic (eg showing people how to put on all their borrowing to and from friends who aren't yet on freelender, so that they can keep track of all their stuff.)
Experiences from 'would be freelender champions' of the difficulty of promoting freelending locally.
Identifying and supporting active freelenders (not just freelender.org users)

Organisations that Freelending CIC could network with:

For all these organisations, it is worth finding out who funds them (often shown on their website), for possible future funding bids.

Date Added	Organisation	Next Action
16/10/09	mySociety mySociety "run most of the UK's best-known democracy websites". These are mostly websites which interface with local and national government in some way. They run the very wonderful and useful Groups Near You website.
16/10/09	DC10 plus DC10plus aims to promote social inclusion through the use of technology. It is a collaborative network of local authorities and their partners dedicated to creating partnerships, sharing best practice and developing new initiatives. See especially their community building capacity page.
16/10/09	Bristol Environmental Technologies Sector BETS is a trade association and sector partnership between businesses, academia, investors, local authorities, regional and national agencies promoting the growth of the environmental technologies and services sector in the Bristol city-region.	None at the moment - their website does not seem to tie in with Freelender.
16/10/09	West of England Carbon Challenge The West of England Carbon Challenge helps organisations in the region reduce their emissions in line with national targets.	Their website doesn't look too promising for Freelender.
16/10/09	Bristol Green Capital Bristol Green Capital aims to accelerate the pace of change in our economy and our communities towards the low carbon future that will make Bristol a more sustainable, healthier, greener city.
16/10/09	Connecting Bristol Connecting Bristol works to harness the energy and creativity of the city to extend opportunities through digital inclusion.