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Communications working group made up of local volunteers are presenting the new Catford South community website – Surinder Phuller

Surinder Phuller, Local resident and volunteer on the Catford South Assembly Communications Working Group presented the plans for the new community website for Catford South

This is my first meeting. I moved to Catford in March  - amazing turn out tonight and the things you are all doing is super exciting .

I am here to give you an update on the Catford website, it is not just me, it is a whole group of volunteers, giving up time to develop one place as a go to hub for the whole community

We have a survey and an email set up to hear from you from now

Starting point is what is the vision – why are we setting up this website

Create one hub there to inform and engage residents and  potential future residents interesting in moving into Catford. There is a ton of info out there and amazing things out there but sometimes difficult to find out if you don’t already know which makes it harder to get involved.

This website will eb your go to on your phone, computer, ipad at any point to find out what’s going on where can you volunteer, get information and  what’s the latest and greatest thing happening

This will be built by residents, for residents - no offence to the council as they are giving us great support, but that website  is info only. The Community website will be exciting content not just info, you look forward to seeing the latest block or article

Spoken to lots of residents where the impetus comes from - you have to already know about something to get involved. What we want to do is build a site th

4 key goals - Already started  build

One place for your to access all info

Make it easy to use, looks good and intuitive to everybody

Make it meaningful – there are volunteers for the site at the moment, but we want to find out from you on what content you want we want it to be meaningful to help everyone, the less people involved the less meaningful to all aspects of the community

Inform and engage

The working group have come up with 4 key categories, 4 buckets of information.

Local  - what’s going on, events, societies and services, good projects. It will be great for all these projects to be on the site to give maximum exposure

Meet – have a calendar of events  - what about everything else happening, how to  volunteer, what opportunities are there – minutes and actions will also be housed here. Residents have a place to go to find out more and an opportunity for you to submit a questions and have your say, This bucket will allow you to do that

3 – Out and About.  Make it engaging  - blog posts will eb a large feature like online news stories that are  really interesting to local people. i.e. the memorial plaque for instance would be perfect in a history of Catford, Maybe even have an expose on the Councillors, lots of interesting content

4 - Getting in touch page. Volunteer projects lots already happening. For instance if you wanted to get involved in this project,  you don’t need any website experience, a good 50% of volunteers on the working group have no online experience, but come with local knowledge and a desire to help and suggest on site suggestions or information to put in

Website address:

lovecatford.co.uk

Contact:

General Enquiries:

•Hello@lovecatford.co.uk

Content Submissions:

•Editor@lovecatford.co.uk

Technical Support

•Support@lovecatford.co.uk

There is also a  Survey Monkey questionnaire. The site will hopefully be going live in December – email one of the email addresses. We would love to hear from you what do you want to see  - ideas for contact you can write like us to write – Lets get the website off to a bang when we go live in December

Thank you