[cma-l] Frustrated campaigning

[Phil Shep]

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>> Dear all
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>> There has long been a need for more joined up regional working within CMA and
>> this fact has not been lost on staff and council. Our great frustration in
>> recent years has been a lack of capacity to do more to make this happen on
>> the ground. Jaqui and the team go well beyond the call of duty on a daily
>> basis to hold the line for the sector, to make sure we are represented at the
>> key conversations, to provide the tech and information  support which is so
>> useful to us all. But holding the line is necessarily where we have been at
>> for quite a while and as a sector we need to look at how we can work more
>> effectively together to addresss this - and for me the key is in regional
>> working.
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>> Again, capacity rears its head - yes we're all busy - but also at times we
>> are short-sighted when we build alliances with others and fail to key in our
>> collective strength to the bigger picture .
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>> As has been observed, there is too often a disconnect between the passionate
>> ideas expressed and the ability of the tiny over- stretched core to follow up
>> the ideas - the ones couched in reality at least!  If we were meeting
>> regularly at a regional level we could do much more to mobilise grass roots
>> campaigning. 
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>> Just here in Somerset we have at least six CR stations and other CM projects
>> within a fifty mile radius and while there is at times I know, good and
>> positive communication flowing between projects this rarely translates into
>> joined up campaigns which key into the bigger picture.  Let's really tackle
>> this one at the AGM this year - it's overdue and would I think obviate some
>> of the frustrations expressed recently on this list.  I've got a year left at
>> most as Chair and would like to to do as much as possible in that time to put
>> the beginnings of a working regional structure in place.   Let me know what
>> you think.
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>> And yes to echo others, if you've got time and energy to give,please do
>> consider standing for council.  We need all the expertise and energy we can
>> muster to help take us all forward.
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>> Best wishes
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>> Phil
>> Chair of Council
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