FREELANCERS MAKE THEATRE WORK MEETING: FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER
Chair: Peter McKintosh
Minutes: Kelsie Acton
Apologies: Josie Underwood, Alistair Cope, Paule Constable
Arrival time: 9.30-11.30am
- Welcome & introductions (9.30-9.40)
- Updates & reports: (9.40-11.15)
- Big Freelancer Survey
- Survey will go out on January 17th
- It’s on typeform
- Will be open for a month
- How do we ensure that it gets to the people who we need to respond
- Key question is how do we reach people who have left the industry?
- AAPTLE is still a place where people stay in contact so a good place to promote the survey
Action Item: Paul to catch Kelsie up on any access work needed?
- There’s some questions about the movement of talent out of London to different parts of the country
- AAPTLE
- Last meeting was bigger
- There’s a need for some administrative support and we should have a conversation with AAPTLE about if we can offer support [please correct me, my internet was a bit spotty here]
Action Item: Peter to discuss administrative support with Josie and Al in the New Year?
- A conversation is happening about making job listings free to access and therefore more equitable
- MP’s Letter
- We need to both provide the MP’s letter and need to make our wellbeing offer really clear
- We issue this as an open letter to the government as well as an MP’s letter
- We generally agree to the edits, but want to keep the paragraph in that Paule suggested cutting and make a couple of other tweaks
Action Item: Nikki will take this letter to some groups to generate signage
Action Item: Paul will take the letter to Al to put it out on the socials and the website today
- ACE Symposium (Vicki)
- We need to organize a meeting early in January for everyone who wants to be involved somehow
- Because this is a six month project we’ll need to think carefully about how we offer flexibility
- At the end of January the partnership group needs to go back to ACE and give them the outline
- Josie will go to the meetings as a continuity person
- Working group will feed back to Friday meetings
Action Item: Vicki will ask Al to create a channel on Slack about the ACE Symposium
Action Item: Vicki (with Jake’s help) will send a doodle poll for a meeting in early January
Action Item: Vicki will let AAPTLE know on their slack and email AAPTLE about this
Action Item: Peter will help Vicki with framing meetings with FMTW core values
- Action points (11.15-11.20)
Action Item: Paul to catch Kelsie up on any access work needed?
Action Item: Peter to discuss administrative support with Josie and Al in the New Year?
Action Item: Vicki will ask Al to create a channel on Slack about the ACE Symposium
Action Item: Vicki (with Jake’s help) will send a doodle poll for a meeting in early January
Action Item: Vicki will let AAPTLE know on their slack and email AAPTLE about this
Action Item: Peter will help Vicki with framing meetings with FMTW core values
- AOB (11.20-11.30)
- Next Friday meeting with January 7th
- Newsletter: Mimi wrote one focused on wellbeing
- We should also include the MPs letter in that
Action Item: Peter will text Al to update him on the newsletter and MPs letter
- Jeff Gamble from Public Campaign for the arts, they’d like to connect with FMTW to ensure freelancers are in their advocacy. They’ll meeting at the CLA and What Next at noon.
Action Item: Freddie and Nikki can go to the meeting at noon
- We need to think about the mechanisms of support more in the future to make sure freelancers are included
- Donmar have offered the 30th of January for recruitment and crafting and Sunita as said yes to it
“Have a rest…and see you soon. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays” – Peter McKintosh