Showing posts with label growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label growth. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 November 2012

JM Weekly Update

Hello friends

Its that time again - the third Wednesday in the month, which can only mean that it's time to get together for another cafe session. This will be our final session in the Rough Guide to being an Ordinary Radical season (though not the last session of term, don't worry! More on that below.) As trailed last week, this week we have Ash Chafe coming to speak on his experience of life as an ordinary radical living on Strawberry Vale - be sure to come along and hear what he has to say! 

That's 7:30pm this Wednesday at Coffee Republic in North Finchley. Come early, grab a coffee and a pasty and meet someone new.


Don't forget that we gave you two challenges last month - to adopt a new ordinary radical habit and to invite someone along to this session. We look forward to seeing how you've done! In all seriousness, we are eager to see JM grow further - we want to fill Coffee Republic with members (and Raj's till with enough takings that we can further reduce our room hire costs), so please do get out and spread the word!

Speaking of getting out, some of us spent yesterday out of our comfort zones at Brent Cross. Read more about what we were doing and why in the post below.

I'd also like to flag up another opportunity to do something practical - we are partnering with The Bohemia to provide gifts and Christmas dinners to some of the older people of Finchley. The idea is simple: buy a gift for an older lady or gent, bring it along to our next pub session (5th December) and we'll spend the evening wrapping them up. There are more details below. This is an excellent opportunity to support a local business, invest in our community and raise our visibility, not to mention to bring festive cheer to some senior citizens. We'd love for all of you to get involved with this, so get thinking about what you might give...


That's all for now - have a great week, y'all!


Sam and Victoria, Elaine, Sara, Lizzie

Monday, 22 October 2012

Looking Out

While our cafe sessions this term are exploring what it means to be an ordinary radical, our autumn pub sessions will look at how we can develop and improve the network itself.


Wednesday 7th November, 8pm
JM has grown from an idea to a community of 20-30 people that meet regularly and another 20-30 that follow us on social media or receive our weekly emails updates. That's very exciting, but we want more. We dream of filling Coffee Republic with 40 people every month, of being able to make a tangible impact on issues we get behind and empowering even more people to find out how to act on their passion to see more social justice in our world.

At this pub session we'll be at the Bohemia sharing tips on how we talk to friends and colleagues about being part of Justice Matters and other ideas for reaching a wider audience.

It promises be another awesome evening - see you there!