John's 18 Plus Events Page

John A Smith
18 Plus National Development Officer


National Development Officer
Report to January 2000 N.E.C. meeting

£500 Development Fund

Northern Area - The Northern Area Development campaign to open new Groups in Preston, Merseyside, Scunthorpe, and York is now on-going, interest meetings, (which I have offered to help with) are planned for February/March, hopefully there will be more to report shortly therefore.

North Thames & Chilterns - Elstree & Borehamwood 18 Plus has been reported as something of a disappointment, though the Group is on-going.

No other requests or enquiries have been received, however the Southern Area Development Officer has put forward the idea of Publicising 18 Plus in towns without an 18 Plus Group using the World Wide Web, I have suggested that this idea be expanded on similar lines to the Northern Area scheme using the £500 Development Fund.

New Groups

Walsall - The Feasability Study and request for funding has been received,.and authorised. I was invited to this Group's opening on January 11th.

Oldham - The Group did not lose it's venue after all, and they have had some success with recruitment recently.

Closed Groups

London & South East Area - Dartford, Eltham and Redhill & Reigate

Midland Area - Kettering,, Northfield and Peterborough

Northern Area - Knotty Ash

Development Guide

On-going, more research to be done. So far I've got lots of information about Development successes in the past, but very little in the present, (there is some limited success) hopefully this is now changing.

Direct Membership

I have been putting together a plan to promote Direct Membership and the possibility of using the scheme to open new Groups, hopefully there will be a motion to discuss at this meeting.

I have also spoken on the telephone, and been in contact via E-Mail with the Northern Area Publicity & Development Officer and the Midland Area Development Officer, hopefully being some help to them.

In late September I received a telephone enquiry from a prospective member living in Worthing, she enquired about the possibility of opening a new Group in Worthing, I referred the enquirer to the Southern Area Chairman and Development Officer, I understand that the enquirer is now a member of Crawley 18 Plus Group, the nearest Group to Worthing.

John A Smith
National Development Officer

Report - January 1999
Report - January 2001

18 Plus National Development Officer 1999 - 2001
18 Plus Direct Membership