TELECENTRES POWYS
C/O Newtown Resource Centre
11, Severn Street, Newtown, Powys. SY16 2AQ
Tel: 01686 629487  Fax 01686 610681 e-mail: richards@telecentres.org.uk

Telecentres Network Meeting 03/06/04
10.30am MRC-Wales, Llandrindod Wells

Present:
Richard Singleton (Chair) Newtown Resource Centre , Sue Darby (Deputy Chair) MRC-Wales Llandrindod TC,  Sarah Townhill Brecon Cybercafe, Barbara Christopher  Talgarth TCTIC, John Waters (Member) Llanidloes Resource Centre , Roger Cowlin  Talgarth TCTIC

Apologies:
Rosemary Kent, Martin Williams, Barbara Walker, Lesley Keates, Jacqui Brown, Sue Jones, 

Agenda:
1.	Minutes of last meeting(s)
2.	Matters Arising
3.	Telecentres News Roundup
4.	Update on funding bids
5.	Update on constitutional changes / charity /Ltd Co. possibilities
6.	Publicity
7.	TC Champ report
8.	A.O.B.
Close.

ITEM	DISCUSSION	ACTION	PERSON	
1	There were no minutes available from the last two meetings. 	It was decided that R.S. would take and circulate minutes of this meeting	R.S.	
2	J.W. said how successful the excellent antivirus offer from Martin Williams had been. R.S. said he had sent out a reminder. J.W. said that virus solution alone was worth the effort of attending meetings, and one good reason for being a member of Telecentres Powys.			
3	Talgarth: Roger now in place as manager. Website up and running: http://talgarth.powys.org.uk
e-mail: help.talgarth@powys.org.uk
Basic I.T. courses being run, only 3 P.Cs, small grant received from Brecon Sustainability fund, inherited muddles pretty much sorted. Would like larger premises and core funding!
Brecon:  Keeping busy and has been redecorated. Silver Surfers Club, youth activities, young carers meeting with I.T. facilities, open late for youth club, received funding for Tasters in Adult Learners Week in cooperation with Coleg Powys, food sales important source of income. Sarah to leave in July.
There followed a discussion of pricing policy. Each Telecentre different.
Llanidloes: Courses had finished for the summer holidays. T.C. becoming more Child Friendly. J.W. looking at content control / filtering solutions. Possible use of Linux servers running Dan’s Guardian to do this.  LRC looking for I.T. technician to replace Matt.
Newtown: Basic Skills (Literacy and Numeracy) course, Silver Surfers Club, Vol Bureau / T.C. running out of money, much competition in both I.T. courses and Kids Games elsewhere in town. Art Gallery to open a new cybercafe. It was felt that they should be invited to join T.C.P.
Llandrindod: Others running training at MRC rather than Sue in Telecentre. Conference / meeting business was very busy and little time to be active in Telecentre. However it was being used. Sue felt the town needed a good Cybercafe in town centre.	

It was decided that there was no point in trying to have a uniform pricing policy each T.C. being different.

J.W. to report back to T.Cs to share his solutions for all.

R.S. to ask Oriel Davies to join T.C.P. if they do open Cybercafe.	

J.W.

R.S.	
4	R.S. explained that although he had finished and submitted the main bid documents he had not got commitments for the match funding, and so PRP would help polish the bids for submittal in September rather than submit inadequate ones now. Also he would have to submit a completely separate bid for those in Transitional Areas Hay, Talgarth and Crickhowell. There was very little money left in the Transitional pot. Community Fund was not encouraging about getting a bid of £300,000 through as Powys was already oversubscribed and hence a low priority area of Wales which had a budget of £10,000,000. R.S. also to apply for CFAP funding.
A more detailed discussion of how the bids would work and how individual Telecentres would access the funding. It was concluded that if any funding came through it would be better than none.	

It was decided to put the full bid documents and other useful documents on the Telecentres.org.uk server	

R.S.	
5	R.S. read out areas of the Constitution that may have to be changed so that Telecentres Powys could become a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. This seemed the best solution to allow access to grants and allow a degree of freedom and payment of officers. It was decided to circulate the changed constitution and then hold an electronic EGM voting by e-mail.	

R.S. to implement this	

R.S.	
6	R.S. circulated a few pieces of printed publicity material. In particular a post card he had produced with info and a picture on the front and a map to Newtown Resource Centre on back. It was decided to try to pass printed cards through the N.R.C. laser printer to see whether custom maps / info could be printed on the back of a general card. If so to possibly print 2000. Other publicity materials were discussed. It was pointed out that there was a budget in the Spirit grant for publicity.
R.S. said that we should start planning a conference for 2005, this was budgeted for in EU bids. There was also discussion of running workshops / theming TC meetings, getting guest speakers etc. Funding and Linux were two immediate suggestions. Many T.Cs. have redundant Linux boxes that could be better utilised.	

R.S. to implement this

J.W. to run a workshop / demo on the joys of Linux	

R.S.

J.W.	
7	R.S. said he had visited all but 2 or 3 of the main T.Cs. There were still some small very rural Computerised Communities that should be visited and encouraged to join in. The funding bids would particularly help upgrade these small facilities. As well as visiting T.Cs, which took a day each, going to meetings, doing admin and e-mail, writing the bids, and looking at constitutional issues had more than filled his allotted time.	
R.S. to write a 6 month report on his activities, and submit timesheets to S.D.	

R.S.	
8	There was discussion about the likelihood of the next meeting being well attended on July 12th. It was decided to use list server well in advance to determine this, and maybe have a virtual meeting if a face to face seemed unnecessary. September 14th. meeting to be a major one with update on bids and Telecentre activities.	
R.S. to do a presentation in Sept and to implement e-mail activity.	

R.S.	
	The meeting was closed			

Minutes taken by R.S.
03/06/04