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Vision 2014
Meeting of the General Council • Sat 18 Jan 2014
Branches and Local Groups Report
Room C17 • Institute of Education, University of Durham
Please send any contributions to 2014@atm-mail.org.uk before 30 Jun 09.
The local activity champion reported on current activity in the 160 branches and groups now active across the country and the 50 groups (all of whom work in conjunction with their local ATM equivalents) elsewhere in the world.
The new email groups are working well. New members are automatically added to their local group and the local mentor contacts them to welcome them and invite them to local activities.
We have been really successful in challenging and supporting members in working together. Members of branches have put together case studies and models of how they have organised activities, short conferences and support groups. We now have a whole raft of opportunities for members to meet, share ideas and support each other. As well as the main conferences these include local day and weekend conferences, activity mornings, local (and online) support groups, coffee shop discussion groups and ‘maths down the pub sessions’. The office have been hugely supportive in working with individuals to enable them to facilitate groups.
The website continues to be a hub for lots of on line activities with live ?chat? as well as active forums and shared whiteboard maths sessions.
The development, four years ago, of ‘branch’ starter packs (containing case studies, guidelines on ranges of activities that have been successful elsewhere and a list of members willing to lead both formal and informal sessions) has empowered many who previously had been uncertain about forming groups.
Please send any contributions to 2014@atm-mail.org.uk before 30 Jun 09.
