Shipston Forum

Well for quite a few weeks I have been harping on about the Shipston Community Forum On Line.

I would first of all like to say thank you to all those people that were forward thinking enough to pick up the Gauntlet and go for it. You are absolute stars.

I found the Shipston Forum its self very interesting.

Of course Shipston is not my area of residence! but it seems to me to have similar issues to my neck of the woods, so its good to see and hear we on the other side of the WCC area aren't alone.


These are my thoughts on the Live Community Forum.

My thoughts on filming the drop in half hour before the forum. I am not so sure this should be done as people drop in to talk privately. However this time I guess it was slightly different. 


The meeting its self was very informative. 


Although it was good to see the children teaching the adults about IPads and getting the youngsters involved a good Idea. I am not so sure there was a requirement for the trial to offer a live feed from else where. Although it was very interesting.

My thoughts on the subject. Keep it simple and uncomplicated.That way there are less things to go wrong and it in my view will be easier to get the buy in of any skeptics.


Plonk a camera in the corner of the room, make sure the sound is good and let it all rock and roll naturally. People soon tend to forget the cameras are there and begin to relax.

If there aren't many people in physical attendance sobeit, If there aren’t many people watching on line sobeit.

The fact is leaders of a local community have given people the choice of watching, attending and participating whether it be physically or virtually. 

I think Shipston led by example, and all in all did a great job.


I for one hope the idea gets rolled out across the whole County as a matter of course but that's just my own personal opinion.