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START UP A lOCAL TN

JOIN TNF as a Member

When you have obtained your Editor's permission and established that there is not someone already working to set up a TN in your locality and you have assembled your Principal Officers, the next step should be to seek Membership of TNF. An application form is attached or can be obtained from the Registrar. The fee is only £45 and this secures membership for the remaining part of the year until 31 March and for a full twelve months thereafter. On joining, a Directory giving the names and addresses of all the TNs known to be operating in the UK, with various details, will be given to the local TN.

Armed with this information you can contact those established TNs nearest to you, to arrange a visit for yourself and your officers to sit in on recording and editing sessions, see the copying operation and possibly arrange for some assistance in the early stages.

ARRANGE A PUBLIC MEETING

You are now ready to involve your community. Ideally you need between thirty and forty volunteers so that you can operate in four or five teams. This means you are asking for volunteers for only two hours once every five or six weeks. Few people interested enough to turn up to your meeting are likely to refuse some help. You also need as many organisations as possible to help with your fund-raising.

Give about three weeks notice of the meeting and invite all organisations by personal letter. The letter can be duplicated but take the trouble to find out the name of the Chairman, President or Secretary from the library, and address the letter to him or her.

Organisations which should be invited are Social Services Departments, Social Clubs and Associations for the Blind, Community Service organisations, Libraries, Schools and Parent Teacher Associations, Lions Clubs, Leo Clubs, Rotary, Inner Wheel and Rotoract, Round Table and Ladies Circle, Churches and Women's Institutes or Townswomen's Guilds, Amateur Radio Societies, Tape Recording Clubs and Hospital Radios.

Publicise this meeting well with plenty of posters, advertisements in the local paper and local radio, if possible. Get your local paper to describe how the TN will work and appeal for help during the run-up to the meeting.

Make sure the meeting is efficiently run and commences at the published time. The people who come will be busy people, so don't put them in a bad mood by starting ten minutes late. Invite speakers from your neighbouring TN or from TNF who can answer questions from experience. Have some equipment to demonstrate, sample cassette players you are asking them to buy, a sample tape and wallet, and if possible, a high speed copier. This is always a winner.

Explain how you propose to operate, what is involved in the tasks of editing, reading, recording and copying and what you expect from your volunteers.

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