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Cambridge, February 1999: Duncan MacDuffie, who regretfully had to give up editing, publishing and distributing the Cambridge Greenwave magazine after December'96 due to the onset of severe illness, has now fully recovered and is keen to get together a team of people with some time and energy to spare to help relaunch the magazine as soon as possible.

If you are interested in helping this worthwhile project please read the following:

Greenwave RelaunchProject

There are two main concerns which need to be addressed as soon as the team gets together. We need to arrive at a reasonable consensus of what our collective vision for Greenwave is. We also need to decide whether we are jointly able to carry out all the essential tasks, or wheth er we need to take on additional people who have less time to spare

My personal vision of Greenwave is that it should continue to be the flagship of the local alternative movement, encouraging and inspiring an ever-widening circle of vibrant and visible alternative activities to effectively challenge the current greed-driven economic system. We need to let people know all about the projects which are already in hand locally, and possible new ones drawn from experiences elsewhere. I would like to see a significant increase in the number of contributions indicating how mentally ill, elderly, handicapped and otherwise disadvantaged people can begin to take control of their lives and find way of fulfilling themselves in society.

You may well be wondering how I see myself contributing to all this. In fact I am fairly flexible about this. At one end of the spectrum I would perhaps be content to make myself available solely as a resource of information and experience regarding what has worked in the past, what has been tried and failed etc. at the other end of the spectrum I would like to play an active part in formulating policy and chairing meetings of the group and perhaps taking on a small number of tasks. At the beginning it is obvious that I would need to be at the latter end of the spectrum to ensure a smooth transition to the new organisation. I intend to seek expert advice on what legal form the organisation should take (a matter which has not been settled so far).

Unfortunately, due to the onset of my illness, the Winter 96/97 issue never reached the shops, though it was mailed to all advertisers and subscribers. I therefore intend to offer copies of these to all outlets very shortly, at the greatly reduced price of 30 pence, sol I do hope you will buy a copy at Arjuna, Cambridge Health Foods or whatever outlet you have bought it from in the past (see list of outlets in back copies of the magazine). January 1999, Duncan MacDuffie

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the tasks:

Production:


• Writing articles, poems, letters etc., a getting these on to discs compatible with the computer used for typesetting the magazine.
  
• Drawing or supplying non-copyright illustrations and pasting these on to the master copies used for printing the magazine.
  
• Contacting past and potential authors for material and encouraging and helpin g them to make contributions.
  
• Contacting past and possible advertisers helping them produce the material for their advert. if necessary, and getting this into a suitable form for the magazine.
  
• Ensuring that prepaid advertisements set to run beyond the Winter 97/98 issue are inserted in as many subsequent issues as necessary without further charge. (If the final circulation figures for this issue are much lower than previous issues I think we should allow an extra insertion free of charge also).
  
• Choosing which articles should appear in which issues, if we have a surplus!
  
• Maintaining up to date lists of the Networks and Natural Health Listings and ensuring that these are put in the next issue.
  
• Proofreading the text and checking the other material.
  
• Typesetting the magazine.
  
• Printing and collating the magazine or arranging for this to be done.

  Distribution
  

• Maintaining a list of outlets (currently 39),
  
• distributing the magazine to all these (in and around Cambs.) at the same time collecting all monies due (usually in cash) and recording and banking this.
  
• Mailing the magazine to all subscribers, sending out expiry notices when due, and keeping up to date subscription records.

  Finance
  

• Paying all invoices, issuing receipts as necessary and keeping records of cheques drawn in the proper manner.
  
• Dealing with petty cash expenses of team members etc. and keeping records.
  
• Banking and keeping records of any other transactions.
  
• Reconciling bank statements accounts regularly.
  
• Preparing regular balance sheets for the team to inspect.

Interested? Please fill out the questionnaire!