CF Support

A busy few days, so apologies for not keeping the blog up to date. Off to Havering tonight and hustings in Manchester on Saturday - if you're going to either, I'll see you there.

CF Support is the name for the four teams of volunteers who are helping to contribute to CF. Based all over the country but collaborating over the Internet to deliver services for the benefit of all our members.

Copywriters Teams - Two teams of writers who allow CF.com to update its website twice a day. Before it was two articles per month, now 700 articles later the teams are larger than ever before and able to take on other tasks, like script writing for CF TV

CF TV - A multimedia website run by volunteers aimed at using new technologies to capture an emerging market in online broadcasting. All run for free, and a great way of raising the profile of the organisation.

CF Net - The final big project. To bridge the gap in communication at a local level, CF Net will allow branches to advertise their events on a regional site, maintained by a team of tech savvy volunteers. Unlike our exisiting sites the regional sites can be modified on a weekly basis, providing a greater flexibility.

These projects comprise almost 120 volunteers working to improve CF. I'm standing in this election to make the point that the future success of CF relies not on a fractured system where each small part pursues short-term gain, but on bringing together the seperate elements into a dynamic organisation that works.