Logistics (Awareness week guide)
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This session provides practical advice on the logstics of the week.
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Staffing
Depending on the scale of the week, you may want to run this ad hoc or with a full schedule. At very least you probably want to get people to commit to saying they were helping out on certain days so that you will get at least some people turning up to help out at each event.
During the time that events are taking place you should assign someone to supervise / manage things. This way you know you will have at least one person who knows what is going on and can take overall responsibility for ensuring everything is running smoothly.
Training
You may want to provide training for people helping out as this improves their performance during the week and encourages people to help out as they feel they are getting something back.
For example you may want to run an Answers course before the week begins.
Food & drink
It is good practice to offer food and drink at such events as it draws people in.
Hot Drinks
It is reasonably straight forward to offer tea, coffee and hot chocolate. You can buy value brand products of each at very cheap cost and the only other ingredient you need is milk. You can buy long life UHT milk for cheap too and this also keeps a long time. Personally I don't bother with sugar though that is something you may want to consider.
At low volumes you can provide hot drinks with just a kettle. As demand grows you may want to think about getting a catering urn / hot water boiler as this can heat water for dozens, even hundreds of drinks depending on what size you get. They tend to take quite a while to boil though once boiled are reasonably simply to top up. THey also don't take any more power than a kettle.
