Getting the ball rolling

On the 29^th November CityCamp Coventry held its first post-event meeting.   CityCamp organisers Sasha Taylor, Graeme Mullvany and Alison Hook were joined by sponsors and supporters of the winning projects from Coventry University (Gideon Maas), Coventry City Council (Jenni Venn and Juliette Richards) and FutureGov (Rachel Karasik).

Graeme and Sasha updated the meeting about the envisaged aims of CityCamp Coventry monthly meetings (the first held in November), and the status of each of the winning projects:

Coventry Greeters – Si Chun Lam

CAB Advice Buddy – Charley Gibbons

Coventry Ring Road Website – Rob Nickerson

Virtual Orchard  – Rachel Adshead

Community Payback Visibility – Jason Davies

It was agreed that the next stage would be for the University to ask the project leads to provide the Institute of Applied Entrepreneurship with specific information to inform a meeting to determine the needs of the project and broad action plan. This action plan would then help the sponsors and other parties to understand the support that they need to provide in a more structured format.

The University has been in touch with the project leads this week and we are looking forward to seeing the action plans soon.

On a separate note another project from CityCamp Coventry, the Hydroponics idea from Craig Marston, has also progressed with a sponsor of small hydroponics kits coming forward and a pilot school hopefully confirmed this week.