Welcome Week is the most crucial time of the year for the LGBTQ Association, as I mentioned in my previous blog post. This post recaps our successes of this week and the foundation we laid for the coming year.
(There are more photos on my Facebook album).

The Societies Fair

The annual societies fair on Thursday and Friday of welcome week was well-attended by most of the LGBTQ committee, who were greeting members and non-members alike with good attitudes and a load of freebies.

Copies of our welcome week booklet were distributed to new and returning members, as well as information on our events and tickets to the barcrawl that same evening. Fairly standard but it did raise awareness.



Door-knocking, flyering and the coffee/befriending afternoon certainly did set up a solid foundation for membership, seeing as we sold in excess of 90 tickets to the barcrawl. The typical turnout for the freshers' barcrawl in previous years is around the 60 mark at best - great success :D

Welcome Week Barcrawl

The LGBTQ Welcome Week Barcrawl covered Joes (the Guild), Angels, Route 2, The Fox and finally the Gale (at which point, our stewarding duties were done :P).

The feedback we've had from members thus far has been good. Although the task of herding them between the bars and picking up stragglers was tedious, they all seemed to enjoy themselves, the Freshers have had a good introduction to the Birmingham gay scene, and the whole thing went without incident. Personally, we (the committee) loved it; we really had a chance to mingle with the Freshers and show them they had an association that cared :D

I'm hoping to get some concrete feedback from members who may be interested in "Gay Thursdays"; regular unofficial barcrawls to the gay village. More on that over the next week after the commitee has next met.