Action List - Help wanted!

One of the problems with volunteer organisations is that you tend to accept that every now and then people can't do all they offer to do. That is only natural, however sometimes these jobs simply become 'ongoing' and they simply never get done.

So the WRG committee had a good honest look at what it was failing to achieve and came up with list of about 20 "jobs we really should do but never seem to make it to the top of the pile". Some of them are standalone jobs, others are just pulling together what other people are already doing. Some of them are quite time specific, others can be done anytime in the year. We thought we would publish it because we realise that it is often a rather scary thing to ask "I'd like to help a bit more - is there any little job I could do?" as you feel you will get lumbered with chairmanship or editing navvies or some other horrendous task.

None of these are big jobs but they are significant because, if we did manage to do these jobs in the background then we could achieve a lot more on the ground. The list is published here (Word file), showing contact details should you want to find out a bit more about what each task would involve.

[Adapted from Mike Palmer's Chairman's Piece, Navvies 228, April-May 2008]