AS The National exclusively revealed, the National Yes Registry will be holding its second Gathering in the Albert Halls in Stirling on Sunday, November 24, from 10am to 5.30pm.
Today in another exclusive we can reveal that a series of regional meetings will be held in the run up to the Gathering#2, as it has been named.
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The registry told us: “As important preparation to Gathering#2, the National Yes Registry is holding a series of regional meetings to present and distribute the newly-completed IndyApp2.0 to local groups up and down the country.
“Equally important, each of these events will also be an open forum for face-to-face participation in the preparations surrounding Gathering#2, being held on November 24. Please come along to your nearest meeting, have your say on the organisation of these important national grassroots events, and be the first to see and get access to the all-new and expanded IndyApp2.0.”
The registry’s Jason Baird told us: “Gathering#2 and the consultation on the Growth Commission findings that will make up part of that national event are very important moments, organisationally, in the development of the grassroots movement.
“That’s why it’s so important that we get maximum participation from ordinary Yessers and local group members in how the events are run and what topics should and should not be included.
“It is also very important that folk begin to understand the central role the newly completed IndyApp2.0 will play in grassroots communications.
“Communications between individual group members, local groups, suppliers and designers as well as the movement’s wider Yes organisations such as SiF, SIC, WfI, CommonWeal, and Business for Scotland etc. So please, if you are interested in grassroots Yes, Gathering#2 or want to learn more about the new IndyApp’s communication capabilities, please come along to your nearest meeting.”
The regional meetings are as follows: Perth, Dundee and Tayside – Thursday, November 8, 7-9pm in the Butterfly Café, 28-30 Commercial St, Dundee DD1 3EJ.
Highland – Saturday November 10, 10.30am, Yes Hub, 47 Huntly St, Inverness IV3 5HR. Ayrshire and Islands – Sunday, November 11, 2-4pm, Ardrossan Civic Centre, 150 Glasgow St, Ardrossan KA22 8EU.
Glasgow and the West – Monday November 12, 7-9pm, Renfield St. Stephen’s Centre, Garnethill Suite, 260 Bath St, Glasgow G2 4JP. Scottish Borders – Wednesday November 14, 7-9pm Langlee Centre, Green Room, Marigold Dr, Galashiels TD1 2LP.
Edinburgh and Dumfries & Galloway dates and venues to be announced soon.
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