Annual General Meeting “fun” shocker!

Cable Community News 10th April, 2017

The Bristol Cable

VOTING RESULTS INCLUDED. On Wednesday 5th April, 104 Cable members crowded into the Malcolm X centre in St Pauls for the Bristol Cable AGM 2017.

Photos: Norberto Fernandez Soriano

Another year, another great Bristol Cable Annual General Meeting (AGM).

As a co-operative, Cable members are shareholders of their media organisation – one person, one vote. And we don’t do dry, boring meetings: with group discussion, priority-setting activities and secret ballots, members discussed, debated and voted on the direction the Cable will take over the next year.

Members grappled with…

• The Cable’s financial projections and expenditure priorities
• The nature of the campaigning journalism the co-op should pursue
• Whether or not to apply for a Google News Initiative grant
• Electing Directors
• How as a growing co-operative we can ensure we take decisions democratically
• …and much more

The minutes are available here.

The voting results:

• Expenditure priorities
• Campaigning journalism
• Perspectives: diversity and variety of political positions
• Perspectives: regularity of online content, are your friends members?
• Where should we make decisions?
• Should we apply for a Google grant?

Thank you to all members who came, shared your views and knowledge, and helped shape the Cable’s direction and priorities for the next year.

If you weren’t able to get there, don’t worry. We’ll be continuing our discussions on these issues and more at our monthly members’ meetings (on the first Monday of the month – for details see our events calendar) and on our online discussion and decision-making platform, Loomio.

If you’re a member, you’ll have received an invitation to join our Loomio group when you signed up. But if you didn’t, just drop an email to membership@thebristolcable.org and we’ll send another invitation.

Here’s what some members said on social media: