Calling ALL Indy Group members and ALL Indy organisations! – Jason Baird

This is an open invite to every local indy group in Scotland… and to any pro-indy grassroots organisations and suppliers that would like to participate with them in building a fully inclusive campaigning network across the entire Yes movement.

The purpose of the weekend is to practically and simply show how indy group memberships (and the wider Yes movement) can interact directly with one another, as a network of equals, using the simple to use communication functions of the IndyApp 3.0 platform

About the platform

The IndyApp platform is not traditional social media like Twitter or Facebook. It is not a publishing site focused on individuals, like those two traditional platforms are. 

Instead, IndyApp3.0 has been designed to encourage the creation and networking of activist groups, like yours, working locally all over the country. IndyApp3.0 lets any Yesser find and join a local indy group – or create their own, and then easily make contact, share ideas, resources and campaign experiences with fellow indy groups from right across the platform. It’s a private and secure tool for the grassroots movement to organise ourselves nationally into an effective, local community-focused, indyref2-fighting monster!

Individuals are important for sure – but make no mistake, Scotland’s independence can only be won collectively. So we, the NYR, are creating a weekend event where pro-indy representatives from all over the country can come together to make sure Yes is properly networked this time, and organised, in every community of Scotland, ready to win IndyRef2 whenever it is called.

Only already organised activists in our local community groups, can begin this systematic networking of the movement. We all need to come together, face to face, and take responsibility for beginning that organisational process – and for making sure it actually gets carried forward and completed! We believe that the IndyApp3.0 networking platform, and the commitment shown by all attendees during this full training and network-building weekend will be a strong practical start, to cascade that networking across every group in Scotland, enabling self-organisation from within. The groups organising themselves to work and communicate together is the single most important way of strengthening the wider Yes movement as a whole.

After 5 years of work and support from key vanguard groups and individuals, we now have a grassroots communication platform designed and ready for exactly that purpose. We’ve just about raised the funds required to subsidise a full weekend of training for every indy group and Yes organisation committed to that networking idea and to supporting one another, together as a movement, to win. The Platform is built, the opportunity is in place – only you the groups can take it now and make it happen.

If you would like to support the event but cannot attend, our crowdfund is still open and currently at 67% so any help with that would be fantastic! https://nationalyesregistry.scot/crowdfunding/

The IndyApp National Training and Networking Weekend is being held in the Perth Station Hotel over Saturday and Sunday on the 1st and 2nd of February.

Day 1

Registration, teas and coffees from 10 am, for an 11am sharp start – 17:30 end

Day 1 is full practical training. Working in groups, attendees will be taken through every local and national networking function of the platform. Practical lessons in the use of the Forums, Action Rooms, Resources and Editor Portal, exploring the strategic benefits to the grassroots of IndyApp 3.0

Day 2

Attendees will use their training from Day 1 to begin the structured network building process. This is the day that designers, suppliers, bloggers, broadcasters, national Yes organisations, Yes supporting political parties, pro-indy Union and community charity representatives are all welcome to attend and participate in creating the support structures required across the movement.

So, if you want your grassroots fully organised and networked nationally – then only you, in your autonomous local groups, can provide the legitimacy and critical mass needed to make it happen. All you, as groups, have to do is participate… but you do NEED to participate if you want that networked movement. No one else can, or is going to, do this for us!

If you want your group participating with all the other groups in this, time is short and places are limited. Please check the attached list of confirmed groups – if your group is not on the list yet, maybe find out why not? – Perhaps, if you are interested, you could come along as your group’s representative? You would be very welcome.

To book your group’s places, just follow this link https://nationalyesregistry.scot/perth-training-weekend/

Attendee Logistics

This is NOT a turn up on the day event, it’s not a rally or a Gathering – it is full practical training from lesson plans, and structured networking for up to 200 activists (and their groups). This obviously requires a great deal of attendee/organiser planning to hold successfully, and so we, the organisers, MUST have the full list of all attendees to work from before the 20^th of January.

We have a total of 160 training places available (half of which are already taken) with another 40 Yes organisation places on top of that for Day2. Each place is £25 per person and is being heavily subsidised to include tea, coffee, snacks, lunch, evening meals and shared accommodation for Saturday night if required (plus breakfast). If you want to attend on behalf of your group but cannot afford even the subsidised attendee fee, please contact us and we will try to help. We do not want any group excluded from taking part in this grassroots training and network building process.

We are really looking forward to seeing you all for a great weekend of training, networking and most important of all, socialising with fellow activists from right across the country. 🙂 Come and help make it a flying start for Yes in 2020!

Jason Baird

01 AIM for Yes Garnock Valley & West Kilbride

02 Airdrie for Independence

03 AUOB

04 Aye Aberdeen

05 Aye Crieff

06 Aye2Aye Fort William

07 Ayrshire Indy

08 Be More Brechin/Brechin Yes

09 Butterflies Rising

10 Castle Douglas

11 Constitution

12 DGP4Indy

13 Grassroots Oban

14 Indy Group Alpha

15 Indy2 all the way

16 Inverclyde for Independence

17 InverYess

18 Kirkintilloch Lenzie and the Villages

19 Pensioners for Independence

20 SNP Sidlaws

21 Spirit of Independence

22 Yes Bearsden and Milngavie

23 Yes Bellshill and Mossend

24 Yes Blantyre

25 Yes Bute

26 Yes Clackmannanshire

27 Yes Dunfermline and West Fife

28 Yes Edinburgh North and Leith

29 Yes Edinburgh West

30 Yes Elgin

31 Yes G78

32 Yes Grangemouth

33 Yes Helensburgh and Lomond

34 Yes Inverness

35 Yes Kelty

36 Yes Kirkcaldy

37 Yes Kirrie

38 Yes London

39 Yes Marchmont and Morningside

40 Yes Perth City

41 Yes Ross & Sutherland

42 Yes Rutherglen and Cambuslang

43 Yes Shettleston

44 Yes Skye & Lochalsh

45 Yes Strathaven

46 Yes2Arbroath

47 YesEastwood