It’s coming up for a year since Rob Crane was elected to the Dons Trust Board, with a pledge to improve the Trust’s communications. So, he asks, what’s changed since then?
In April we sent our first monthly email newsletter to Dons Trust members. These newsletters aim to make members aware of news stories on the Trust website that they might otherwise have missed. They’re also useful for promoting upcoming events, such as the recent Foodbank collection. We send these..
Can you help our media output?Earlier this summer the Dons Trust Board approved a new ‘communications ethos’. We are now seeking two volunteers to help deliver it on an ongoing basis.
The two volunteers will work together to:
attend monthly board meetings and produce a summary of discussions for uploading to the Trust website use Zoho Social to increase the Trust’s presence and engagement on social media use Mailchimp to create monthly emails to members monitor the contact@thedonstrust.org email address to respond to inbound email..
Brand new communicationsMaking the Dons Trust more visible and better understood, particularly among younger supporters, is a key priority for the Dons Trust Board. Charles Williams explains what’s been done so far and some of the planned next steps.
Can you help the Dons Trust as its new secretary, supporting communications with members or as a minute taker?
Rob McGlinchey, the Trust’s current secretary, plans to stand down in the spring due to pressures of work. To give a feel for what the role of the secretary is you can access the current job description.
While replacing Rob, we would also like to look at the workload carried by the rest of the Trust’s secretariat, including those who assist..