Tuesday
Tuesday mornings always kick off with our 9am Management meeting. This is our weekly opportunity to catch up on recent activity and focus on the week ahead. We collectively discuss any issues, actions or ideas and communicate information or news, as well as have the opportunity to ask for help or support where needed.
I am also Edinburgh based, so today I am catching up with rest of team at our office space at ‘The Dugout’, which is located at Ocean Terminal. As a team, we are working on our activity on the lead up to Christmas both on our comms for the month ahead as well as our activities with our ‘Players’.
Christmas isn’t always the happiest time of year for people and we are very aware of that. We do all we can to ensure players are getting the support they need every day but particularly on the run up and throughout the festive season. That support comes in whatever way is needed for each individual.
Street Soccer London is our sister charity, and I am currently working with our London Advisory Board to prepare a launch event which will take place early February 2021. Having recently implemented Salesforce as our CRM platform across the organisation which will be key for monitoring impact as well as support income generation, donor management and stewardship. The organisation has engaged with us to support this event and have kindly agreed to sponsor the launch and host it at their London Facility at Heron Tower for us. I, therefore, spent some time today gathering information on proposed numbers, timings, guests, running order etc as well as what we want to achieve from the event to share with our sponsor ahead of invitations being prepared and sent out to our invited guests. An exciting opportunity for us and it’s just so nice to be arranging opportunities to spend time with people in person again.
My meeting with some of the staff at Brewin Dolphin later in the afternoon was a great success and allowed me the opportunity to share more about our organisation, particularly our Edinburgh activities. We discussed engagement and volunteering opportunities which were met with enthusiasm and I look forward to working on the development of our partnership with this organisation.
Tuesday and Thursday evenings are spent with my bike club Coatbridge Clarion and during the winter months, we focus on indoor training using the Watt bikes at our local gym. It’s always great to be with the group and we keep each other motivated during the dark nights which can be a challenge.