This month's summary..
~ Lush campaign – the Lush shop in town wants to campaign against laws that protect the use of animal testing, particularly for cosmetics - this would provide a good source of finding for ExAct!
~ Trews Weir allotments – the council currently rents this land by Exeter Quayside as allotments, but the land is now up for sale – the council did offer to buy the land in question, but owner Adrian Rogers refused their offer. There therefore doesn't seem to be anything further that ExAct can do about this issue.
~ ExAct needs a Charter! - this will provide a structure for the group, and detail the collective objectives and ethos of the group. It will include things like how meetings are run, rules on decision-making, what is and isn't put on the website, who gets meeting minutes, etc. We also need a Mission Statement for the group, which can then be uploaded to the website for public viewing – the group voted in favour of holding a separate meeting for this that only members interested in the structure of ExAct will attend (it may be a lengthy process!).
~ Bike Week 2009 - is from 13th-21st June this year. There is a bike route between Salford and Exeter which works well and has willow planted alongside it, as well as some structures people have built. The same thing could happen with an Exeter-Crediton cycle route - Last year in Crediton there was a mass cycle ride of 50 people down the local High Street. We could do a similar thing in Exeter/put on events for bike week to highlight the need for a cycle path between Crediton and Exeter, alongside a petition to the council.
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