Sketches for network hubs

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1	Recommendation in "Networking for democracy" report	Tasks for a hub	Estimated FTE annually	Handbook	Basic	Better	Best

2	Collaborate on drawing the social graph of organisations working on democracy	Build and maintain an open directory of democracy-related organisations	0.2	✔	✔	✔	✔
3	Create a shared calendar of organisational plans, such as planned press releases	Create and co-maintain handbook of projects, comms channels, resources, research, events, jobs, freelance opportunities, freelancers	0.8	✔	✔	✔	✔
4	Collaborate on a list of who is applying for what funding	Create and maintain list of who is applying for what funding and what's successful / what's not — as open as possible	0.1	✔	✔	✔	✔
5	Startup / match funding for network hub	Meta: Fundraising, plan for future (e.g. membership model)	0.4	✔	✔	✔	✔
6	Establish a shared forum/mailing-list [and encourage its use, maintain and moderate]	Create and moderate mailing list	0.2		✔	✔	✔
7	Create a range of standing meetings to be used to discuss challenges, asks and offers, training...	Create and facilitate range of regular meetings to discuss challenges, asks/offers...	0.4		✔	✔	✔
8	Create cross-sector buddying or mentorship, especially for new staff; regular introductions within and without of sector	Create lists of interested 'buddies/mentors' and regularly match people inside and outside sector	0.2		✔	✔	✔
9	Develop shared understanding of better communications framing	Share best practice and grow understanding of communications framing	0.1		✔	✔	✔
10	Create a quarterly ‘convening of convenors’ to bring together the clusters in the sector	Identify, convene and support well-connected nodes in specific areas of the sector (e.g. civic ed, community journalism...)	0.1		✔	✔	✔
11		Maintain space to support new campaigns / rapid response organising to new opportunities/crises/threats	0.2			✔	✔
12	Provide fiscal sponsorship / coaching / incubator role	Audit user needs, sketch options for fiscal sponsorship model / coaching / incubator, and manage providers	0.2			✔	✔
13	Several recommendations for funders (e.g. Use the social graph of organisations to identify and fill gaps; longer-term core funding; grants for collaborative projects; open grant applications)	Advocacy to funders to shift to longer-term core funding and more open grantmaking / shared intelligence	0.2			✔	✔
14	Establish a space to discuss the sector’s policy asks	Plan and host policy workshops, work on documentation, one-to-ones, test ideas with political parties	0.4			✔	✔
15	Develop a sector-wide policy platform, with a view to influencing the 2024 manifestos	Further policy work to develop sector-wide policy platform with view to influence 2024 manifestos	0.4			✔	✔
16	[Sector should] Make joint funding bids for collaborative projects	Connect organisations, suggest projects, support shared applications	0.1			✔	✔
17	Share working and events spaces	Audit spaces/locations/desk space and needs for events/working space — connect demand and supply	0.2			✔	✔
18	Trial ‘action learning groups’ among peer groups	Create and facilitate meetings for action learning groups / peer coaching	0.2			✔	✔
19	Create cross-sector coordination groups of directors, and board members	Create, organise, facilitate, minute-take, chase up actions for director-level x-sector meetings	0.2			✔	✔
20	Organise a pilot 'festival for democracy' — stand-alone or alongside party conferences	Festival for democracy — pilot event [likely a burst of FT work for a few months]	0.4				✔
21	Collaborate on a sectoral audit to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats	Guide sectoral audit to find gaps, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats	0.2				✔
22	Regularly run horizon-scanning or scenario-planning workshops to prepare the sector for the future	Horizon-scanning — stay on top of news, politics, academic research, write briefings for sector	0.4				✔
23	Develop a shared understanding of what a good democracy looks like in the UK and develop corresponding metrics and sectoral goals	Vision of sector: workshops, facilitation, writing, one-to-ones, public sessions on 'good democracy' and metrics and evaluation	0.4				✔
24	Adopt sector-wide communications framing	Manage external agency process, help guide sector through framing process, monitoring success, maintaining messaging guide, making suggestions	0.2				✔
25	Pool operations, influencing, press and evaluation functions	Audit needs, design shared resources, manage and regularly evaluate external provision or new hires	0.4				✔
26	Pool resources for polling, focus groups and audience segmentation	Convene, facilitate, manage external support	0.4				✔
27	Provide working / events space	Audit user needs, sketch options, partner with providers of work and events spaces	0.2				✔
28	Provide mediation or conflict resolution resources	Choose external provider, manage and guide	0.2				✔
29			Total FTE:	1.5	2.5	4.6	7.4
30	Estimate FTE Cost (wages, NI, pension, office space, laptop, phone, travel, training/coaching)	£50,000	£cost/yr	£75,000	£125,000	£230,000	£370,000
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