Family and Friends Forum

Dear Forum users,

We wanted to reach out to you to gauge interest in organising another virtual gathering.

Some of you may not be familiar with these meetings, so it might be helpful to know that the virtual gatherings are intended to provide a welcoming and supportive space where forum users can meet, share ideas and stories, or simply attend for some connection and conversation. The meetings are held online via Teams or Zoom and are facilitated by Forum team members.

We’ve already hosted a few virtual gatherings, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. With that in mind, we’re considering scheduling another and would like to gauge interest before setting a date.

If this sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, please let us know by commenting below or reacting to this post. We should let you know that we will be limited by capacity but will do our very best to include as many users as possible.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

The Forum Team

Hello,

It’s really encouraging to see your responses so far, and we’re pleased that this is something you be interested in attending. Please be assured that we've noted your interest.

Saint Jude, I think you make a good point about also posting this in the Discussion and Support folder so that it would be more visible for our users. We have taken this onboard and also uploaded our post there. Thank you for your suggestion.

Kind regards,

The Forum Team

Dear Forum Users,

We want to say a big thank you to those of you who were part of our virtual gathering yesterday. It was an incredibly valuable meeting where participants were open, supportive, and willing to share, which made for a thoughtful and respectful space. We really appreciate your contributions, whether you spoke or listened. It all matters. We only wish we’d had more time as there was so much to share and discuss.

We’ll be organising more sessions in the future and hope you’ll join us again. For those of you who couldn’t make it, we hope you’ll be able to join us next time.

If you have any feedback or suggestions for future virtual gatherings, please email us at forum@lucyfaithfull.org.uk



Best wishes,



The Forum Team

Dear Upset Mother, Ocean and all other Forum Users,

Thank you for your continued interest in our virtual gatherings. We’re very sorry that some of you missed out on the gathering that took place last week. We wanted to share a little more about how the virtual gatherings are organised, and how we decide who to invite.

When we posted about the virtual gathering, we reached out to everyone who expressed an interest and then followed up with those who replied to us to ensure they had the opportunity to join. To ensure fairness, we followed a structured approach when sending out invitations, giving people the opportunity to confirm their attendance. If we don’t receive a response within a certain timeframe, we work our way down the list and invite others who have also expressed an interest. This helps us make sure that available spaces are filled and that as many people as possible have the chance to be involved.

Our aim is to make sure that everyone who wants to attend has the chance to do so and so we are committed to making the process as inclusive and equitable as we can. We understand that not everyone was able to make it to the meeting last week, which is why we are organising another session in the very near future – to give more people the opportunity to take part. And if we need to run more, then we will!

Invitations for the next meeting will be extended to those who were unable to attend last week, as well as all other Forum users. So please keep an eye out for posts about this.

Kind regards,



The Forum Team