London Freelance Branch meetings

LFB meetings are at 7pm on the second Monday of each month (except August), generally at Friends House, Euston Road, London WC1. For the benefit of members coming in from shifts and so on, there are now free sandwiches.

Please check back here - meeting subjects and speakers inevitably change from time to time. To be sure of receiving our monthly email alert and virtual Freelance listing, give us your details at www.londonfreelance.org/linkup.php.

Volunteer minute-takers are still needed for Branch meetings from May onwards. Please contact a committee member if you are interested: see contacts.

None submitted yet. Note that this is the meeting at which we mandate the Branch delegation to Annual Delegate Meeting - but we're still waiting for the final agenda.

• send your motion / form for motion details (Word .DOC)

ADM delegation

This branch agrees that its members (delegates and NEC members) attending the Annual Delegate meeting should be in a position to choose to have a single room for the duration of the conference, in order to provide them with a degree of privacy during the busy three days. It therefore agrees to pay the necessary sum to the NUJ Head Office in order to achieve this endcover the single room supplement of £20 per person per night , thus relieving delegates of the necessity pay this considerable cost themselves. The Branch therefore agrees to put aside a sum of up to £1000£800 for this purpose, subject to re-confirmation at the November Branch meeting.

Proposed: Treasurer

• Amended by proposer 12/10/2009

Conference on Alternative Models for the Future of Journalism

London Freelance Branch gives permission to underwrite a one-day conference on Alternative Models For The Future Of Journalism, to be organised for this autumn by the branch in co-operation with other branches and union bodies, to a maximum of £5000. (Brief background: the organisational/cost model is the 2008 conference on New Threats To Media Freedom organised by LFB and others - that is, costs would be reduced to some degree by sponsorship, ticket sales, contributions from other branches.)

Proposed: Alex Klaushofer

Seconded: Phil Sutcliffe

Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom AGM

London Freelance Branch agrees to send Larry Herman as its delegate to the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) annual general meeting on 4 July 2009. The LFB also agrees to re-elect Larry Herman as its representative on the CPBF's National Council.

Proposed: Larry Herman

Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom

This Branch agrees to pay £50 to affiliate to the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, an organisation to which the union as a whole is also affiliated. This affiliation will be on an ongoing basis, to be renewed annually.

Proposed: Jenny Vaughan