We invite you to Secret Projects first-ever Monthly Meet! 15th October at 10am BST



We invite you to Secret Projects first-ever Monthly Meet! 15th October at 10am BST

 7th Oct 2020 |  Blog |  Margaret Ring


We invite you to Secret Projects first ever Monthly Meet!
Thursday 15th October at 10am BST
We absolutely loved getting together with so many of our Shareholders in the summer for our first ever General Meeting of Secret Projects Community Benefit Society. After the meeting had ended, we of course had a team discussion to consider how the meeting went (we thought extremely well!), what we could improve on and our plans for future communications with everyone.

We felt that it had been wonderful to be able to open up a space that allowed people to ask us questions and make suggestions about opportunities Secret Projects might like to consider and, we hit on what we think is a great idea, to invite you all to Secret Projects Monthly Meet! This monthly get-together is open to everyone and, in celebration of the day we pay our Makers each month, will be held on or around the 15th of each month and lasting for 45 minutes, won't take too much of a chunk out of your day.

It's going to be pretty informal and as the get-together is for everyone, (Shareholders, Customers, Friends and people who want to get to know us) we won't be discussing information that would only be relevant to Shareholders. The main focus is to give you the opportunity to ask us any questions you may have and give your ideas for Secret Projects. This could be questions about our Maker Community, ideas for new products, stockists and new markets we could approach - anything goes! There is no set formula, stay with us for the entire 45 minutes or pop in and pop out, it's entirely up to you. We will vary the time of the meeting each month, so hopefully we will fit in with all time zone schedules!

So, once again as a reminder (!) it's with great excitement that we invite you to our first
Secret Projects Monthly Meet on:

Thursday 15th October at 10am BST

If you would like to join us, please email Margaret at events@secretprojects.org and she will get back to you with joining instructions.

We look forward to seeing you virtually later this month!

Photo: Secret Projects first Special Meeting of Shareholders, August 2020

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