minutes.......of a red rag meeting........held Sunday march 16th.....
....at 7 christchurch gardens......presented with apologies for all
the ..........weeks........about eight people were there

Money: general discussion prompted by the changeover of treasurers and
the usual crisis. Standing orders bring in getting on for half what we
need (£60-odd per month), but all other forms of income are
erratic. Currently we rely on regular benefits (which raise anything
from £20 to £100). Not felt to be altogether healthy. Even if people
keep wanting to organise them there's a limit to the number possible
in Reading and there are other causes. Decided we should keep a spare
collecting tin in Acorn so people can collect freelance at gigs,
meetings, or the reading festival fringe. Knocking on doors the rag is
delivered to can be productive - and checks that the rag is still
wanted there. We should try to get more paid ads. Pates are still £7 a
quarter page, £12 a half: when we have more advertisers perhaps they
sh'd go up.

Also: if no money, the rag must be kept short!

Treasurer: the new treasurer is Maryon. New list of signatories made
as most of the old one live in Cambs or Lincs...

Co-ordinators: 22 March: James (Sun: Maryon)
                5 April: Paul Holland (Sun:?)
               19 April: ?Paul Hartley (Sun: Ian)
                3 May (Friday nb): Mark (Sun: Simon, Wargrave 2788)
               17 May: Clive (Sun:?)

Events: felt to be a bit thin. Paul who does them was phoned: he still
wants to do them. The diary left in Acorn doesn't seem to be
working. More contact with all the various Reading groups felt to be a
good idea (which means phoning the., as they're all too untogether to
phone us or even send us their programmes apparently). Paul has
problems with time but will try to get events done in time so they can
be typed.

Red Rag tape: we don't know what the situation is. Guy has vanished,
leaving no instructions! We have no record of who used to get the
tape. (Please to contact Paul Hartley.)

May Day: is on sat 3 May. In the past we've always had a free stall in
exchange for publicity - needs checking. Maybe produce up to 2,000
copies. Help needed. Badges? T-shirts?

Outlets: ICL club sh'd Not be on published list. Distributors sh'd try
to check "did they all go?", and let Pogle know if too many or too few
go to their outlets.

Format: A3 pages of the then current issue admired. (We can't use A2
paper as Acorn's press can't do it). Saves space, looks good, makes
folding easier. Needs planning however, so you don't a) end up with
six different column widths and b) an odd number of pages. But maybe a
little planning is no bad thing?

Notes for co-ordinators: a good idea! Mark and James might get some
ideas together. It's about three years since first suggested...

Next meeting: Sunday April 27th at 39, Coventry Road, at 5 pm. To sort
out among other things what we're going to do on May Day.

James

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