Social Gatherings

csno01
csno01 Online Community Member Posts: 412 Empowering
I know it isnt possible at this time, but do this group ever meet up in person and / or organise social events for Members? 

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,782 Connected
    Big problem there is the scope (pardon the pun) of members from all over the Country, if they had a meet in say, London, you'd have people from up North complaining about Southern bias.

  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Hi i am not too sure about that one of the co-ordinators will know I think they have some sort of annual ball in Sheffield
  • csno01
    csno01 Online Community Member Posts: 412 Empowering
    Big problem there is the scope (pardon the pun) of members from all over the Country, if they had a meet in say, London, you'd have people from up North complaining about Southern bias.

    Or perhaps meets via regions to be more specific. 

    janer1967 said:
    Hi i am not too sure about that one of the co-ordinators will know I think they have some sort of annual ball in Sheffield
    Ah ok. 

    Thanks for the replies guys. 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    Hi @csno01! We don't host in-person meetups as far as I know, but I can double check this next week for you. 
  • csno01
    csno01 Online Community Member Posts: 412 Empowering
    Hi @csno01! We don't host in-person meetups as far as I know, but I can double check this next week for you. 
    That would be great Tori. Thank you. 
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,782 Connected
    @janer1967 if it was a fancy dress Ball I'd be up for it, other than that it'd be too formal, plus I suck at Ballroom dancing lol.

  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    Hi all! I spoke with the team about this, and there aren't currently any plans for us to organise any meetups. That being said, this is something we've discussed in the past as a possibility, so it could be something that happens in some form in the future :) 
  • csno01
    csno01 Online Community Member Posts: 412 Empowering
    Thanks for coming back to me with regards to this Tori. 
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    No problem @csno01, and thanks for letting us know @woodbine. It's good to know that it's worked for other forums! 
  • feir
    feir Online Community Member Posts: 394 Empowering
    I used to organise socials before i became disabled, you just need a venue. :)
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    What sort of things did you organise @feir? Sounds interesting
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,782 Connected
    Once everyone's had the Corona jab, maybe we could all meet up somewhere central, not too far South for us Northern folk, and not too far North for those from down South.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,782 Connected
    For us Yorkies, you could have the meet up in Leeds, well according to the BBC Leeds is the centre of all things Yorkshire lol.
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,155 Championing
    Leeds is the centre of the country, so centre for all things!!  :)
  • feir
    feir Online Community Member Posts: 394 Empowering
    What sort of things did you organise @feir? Sounds interesting

    Just local group meets for people using a forums, we all used to chat a lot with each other and wanted to meet up socially and if anyone outside of our 'clique' wanted to come they were welcome too.
    Luckily someone on the forums worked in a pub so offered that venue as a place for us to meet (made sure a section of the pub was reserved for us all, no charge). All i had to do was create a topic with the date and time of when we would be meeting and people could leave their name in that to say if they were interested then the day before i'd message them all with the venue. We keep the venue secret as the forums was public and we didn't want just anyone turning up. But yeah they went ok, i had to give it up when my mobility was affected unfortunately.