Dear RDA UK volunteers and staff,

As trailed earlier this week, please find here the first of your new Friday emails, as we prepare to launch our 5-week ‘Road to Restart’ programme. Next week’s theme is ‘Trustee Confidence’, and I will be contacting groups on Monday with all the details below.

Please support this theme any way you feel you can in the coming days, to help your Group Trustees understand the vital role they play in the restart process. The planning phase is relevant to all groups – regardless of restrictions on their usual activities or local guidelines. Our single objective should be to encourage Group Trustees to meet up and start their preparations.

 

Tuesday 2 March 1pm – lunchtime webinar with Ed Bracher ‘Trustees: Leading Groups out of Lockdown ’

Next Tuesday lunchtime, RDA UK Chief Executive Ed Bracher will be presenting a webinar looking at the role of group trustees in preparing groups to restart. With our research showing that supportive trustees are the single most important factor in helping groups to get going, Ed will highlight how trustees can lead their groups out of lockdown.

We would like to prioritise Group Trustees attending this session, which will also be available afterwards.

Registration at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1AxkAds2Rv-itPkuvlXQTw

 

Thursday 4 March, 30-minute webinar, 7pm – ‘Road to Restart: Trustees in Conversation’

Next Thursday’s ’30-minute webinar’ features Barbara Manson (Regional Chair for Grampian & Highland, Group Trustee at Gordon RDA) and Pauline Roestenburg (Regional Chair for South East, Group Chair at Chalkdown RDA). Pauline and Barbara will help Group Trustees feel more confident about planning for restart, drawing on their own experiences both at their groups and within their regions.

Registration at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-qXOqf0vQ16fy9lXXWSH8A  

 

Resources to signpost

RDA YouTube recorded webinar: Zoom, The Basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qd2A0EpPfc&feature=youtu.be 

This step-by-step guide from Director of Operations Anna Hall will help support any trustees who have yet to embrace the dreaded Zoom meeting!

 

Other news in brief

The Carriage Driving Magazine Awards are on 14 March from 7pm at www.carriagedrivingawards.co.uk/2020

 

Best wishes and stay safe,

Caroline

Caroline Ward
Head of Communication & Insight, RDA UK
01926 405968
cward@rda.org.uk