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POW’s next general meeting will be this Wednesday 24th August, 7pm at 22 Tiernan St, Footscray. If you would like to get more involved in your community or just meet other members of POW, please come along. We will be discussing our strategic plan and roles up for renewal at our AGM in September, so it’s a perfect occasion to come and let us know what you’d like from POW and to happen generally in your community over the coming year!

Please bring a small offering of food or drink to share with others.

If you’re looking for a way to get more involved with POW, joining our EmPOWering Community Drinks working group is a good way to ease into it – and to get to know other members better.

POW’s monthly drinks bring people together around a theme with a presentation, facilitated discussion and time to mingle and meet new people. We are looking for people to help us organise these events – sourcing and briefing presenters, facilitating discussion, promoting, setting up and packing up.

If you’re interested, please join us this SUNDAY 24th July at the Dancing Dog Cafe, 42 Albert St, Footscray at 3pm.

Thank you to all of you who came to our second EmPOWering Community Drinks and made it such a success.

Thanks to Carol and Kate who created an event with such a buzz!

It really was a wonderful feeling in the room and great to see people swapping ideas and information about their neighbourhood.

Our next drinks will be on the 19th of June from 3-5 at the Dancing Dog. The theme will be sharing and swapping resources.

After that Carol has committed to organising one more the following month. But if we are to continue these wonderful events we will need a group of people to help.

So if you’ve enjoyed our drinks and want more; or if you’ve been wanting to get involved with POW and wondered what you can do; or if you have ideas on how we can improve our events, then please join us at the Dancing Dog on Friday 27th June at 2pm.

If you can’t make it to the Dog at that time, but would like to be part of our working group, please email membership@pow.org.au and we’ll keep you in the loop.

Imagine if you could source most of your family’s food, not just locally but from urban gardens in Melbourne’s west. Imagine sharing your wheelbarrow, your drill or even your car with your neighbours.  Imagine regular beer brewing nights or bottling days with likeminded friends, you haven’t even met yet! Imagine swapping a regular massage for regular home cooked meals. With an empowered and connected community, the possibilities are endless.

POW has a vision of such a community in the West, but we need a broad base of likeminded and enthusiastic people to make it happen. We know such people are everywhere in the West and we’d like to bring them together.

So…join us for a drink,  share your dreams and meet likeminded people:

3pm, Sunday 6th March.

Dancing Dog Cafe, 42a Albert St, Footscray

This event is FREE, but please RSVP:  membership@pow.org.au

The date and time of the Xmas party have changed due to heavy rainfall and flooding at Werribee orchard.

New Details

The Xmas party and last meeting of the year at to be at Anders Park West Footscray. Details below.

Facilities BBQ and table.

Date: Sunday 19th December
Time: 11am until 2pm
Location: Anders park, West Footscray…

The park is called Anders park it is an internal reserve. Entry is via Robbs rd, Hansen st or Exhibition st, West Footscray. It can be hard to find as it is hidden behind surrounding houses so look for the red council signs on the footpath at the entrances on Robbs rd & Hansen St.

Map

We’d planned to have the POW Christmas Picnic this Sunday, but with all this wonderful rain, Werribee Park Heritage Orchard has flooded.

We’ve moved it to Sunday 19th December….but still to work out where.

Stay tuned for the announcement.

Well, a whole year has gone by, and POW is officially a year old. As part of the birthday celebrations, we’re going to have our very first Annual General meeting to elect people for roles of Convenor, Secretary, Treasurer, Events Co-ordinator and Fund raiser. Don’t feel that you could do any of these roles –  the people in these roles at the moment have never done these roles before. You learn as you go along, and maybe help improve it by seeing the role in a different way.

The meeting will be held at De’s home, 28 Fontein St West Footscray, starting at 6.30pm. So, feel welcome to come along and maybe even throw your name into the ring for one of the roles. We’re more than happy to join new members up on the night.

There will be a cake!

The POW Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 25th August 2010 at 28 Fontein St West Footscray.

The elections will be held for the following roles:

CONVENOR – Description

• receive and answer emails addressed to admin@pow.org.au
• receive and respond to correspondence, written and electronic, or forward to someone else to handle where appropriate
• Arrange venues for meetings
• Keep PcM up to date with goings on with POW

SECRETARY – description

Generally administer the organisation’s affairs – unless delegated to someone else, including -

• Maintain hard copy files of correspondence, including copies of emails that are pertinent to POW decisions (any correspondence listed on POW agendas)
• Maintain hard copy records of the Minutes of all Committee and General Meetings and of Annual Reports and forward copies of minutes to PcM Secretary.
• In consultation with Office Bearers prepare and circulate agendas in advance of POW Executive and General Meetings
• Keep minutes of POW Executive and General Meetings, circulate drafts to participants for comment and final versions to be uploaded POW Website
• Receive and process applications for admission to membership and of renewals
• Provide lists of applications for membership for the agendas for Executive meetings
• Maintain a Register of Members of POW
• Maintain contact with external groups that have similar interests to POW
• Arrange the exchange of newsletters with external groups, by email or post
• Forward to the Events Coordinator the details of events proposed by other groups that are of potential interest to PcM members (Events Co-ordinator forwards to PcM)
• Receive and answer emails addressed to info@pow.org.au
• Receive and answer emails addressed to membership@pow.org.au

TREASURER – description

• Maintain hard copy records of all financial transactions
• Prepare periodic and annual financial reports and annual financial statement for lodgement with Consumer Affairs
• Pay accounts
• Prepare and maintain a budget for the management of the organisation’s finances
• Process and bank subscription fees
• Maintain records of rebates due to POW from PcM (e.g. memberships etc)

FUNDRAISER – description

• Work with Treasurer
• Co ordinate ways of raising funds and present them to the POW meetings

EVENTS / PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR – description

• Liaise with all branches of PcM to coordinate the holding of events
• Maintain a Calendar of events and forward to the PIE Editor periodically for publication
• Maintain lists of equipment held by branches of PcM and coordinate its use for events
• Maintain stocks of publicity material (banners, posters, brochures) for use at public events

On 25th August, POW will be holding its AGM and we will be voting in new committee members.  If you have enjoyed your weekly digest and would like to get more involved, then please come along. Roles up for renewal are:

• Convenor
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Workshop coordinator
• Permablitz coordinator
• website administrator

We are also interested in hearing from anyone keen to perform other roles, such as events coordinator or fundraiser or interested in running projects such as a LETs or urban wwoofing.  So if you have something you think you can offer, please come forward.  We have a vision of a thriving, sharing community in the West, but we need lots of active members to make this happen.

If you would like to be more involved in any capacity, please come along to our AGM on Wednesday 25th August at 6:30pm. 28 Fontein St, West Footscray. If you can’t make it, but would like to come to be more involved, then please email us via the contact tab.

POW’s first general meeting for the year will be held at Maidstone Community Centre in Yardley St, Maidstone at 6pm on Wednesday 24th February. We’d love to see some new faces – especially if you’re considering becoming more involved with POW and our activities. We have a range of exciting projects we want to get going in the West this year and we will need lots of motivated people to work on them, so come along and meet with us next week to see how you might get more involved!

12^th January 2010                     7:00 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Location: Sabroso 2 Gamon Street Seddon (Corner of Charles & Gamon Street, SEDDON)

Here is where we talk all things admin re our group. Discuss hows and whys and make sure we are keeping on top of our responsibilities to Permaculture Melbourne. Here is the agenda for you to have a read. If you would like to join in and help out, please come along.

POW Exec meeting AGENDA 12Jan2010 – Amended