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Writing for Centre

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How to write an article

This document sets out how to write an article, this includes: the general rules for writing an article, deciding what to write about, how to submit your idea to us, structuring the article and finally how to write up the article.
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How to write a paper

This handbook explains how to write a new paper for Centre, what it should include and how to format a paper. It also includes a small list of sources that may be useful when writing papers which includes existing research.

Digital campaign

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Running our digital campaign

This guide shows how to create and schedule a social media campaign. It also goes into how to get policies across and how our slogan should work throughout our messaging.
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Style guide

This guide sets out how the Centre logo should be used, how to use logos for regional branches, the fonts we use and how to make individual graphics and our colour schemes.

How to run our social media campaign

A video guide on running our social media campaigns.

Video on making policy graphics

This video shows you how to create policy graphics.

Video on writing cover text for social media posts

What to write for Twitter and Facebook posts you want to schedule.

Video on scheduling posts

How to schedule social media posts on Facebook and Twitter.

Video on making qoute graphics

This video shows you how to create qoute graphics.

Video on creating announcement graphics

How to create announcement graphics.

Video on cutting out an image in Vectr

How to cut out an image on Vectr.

Administration tasks

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How to process donations

This document sets out how to check whether a donation is permissible and how to transfer a donation into our main account.
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How to manage partnerships

This guide shows how to add and remove partners.
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How to run our membership list

This document shows how to update our membership list, how to renew memberships or delete them and how to send out monthly newsletters.
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Running a regional branch

This document sets out what your position involves which includes: Building your branch executive, how to run your branch and medium/long terms goals for branches.
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How to add new policies

This document sets out: how policies are submitted to us, how to check new policies, how to put new policies up for a vote and how to add new policies to our vision document.

Video on how to add policies

In this video we show you how to add new policies to our vision documents.
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Running podcasts

This document sets out how to invite people to podcasts, sorting out what date the podcast is held on and publicising the podcast.
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Patrons

This document sets what our patrons are and how to email either small or large potential patrons.
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Supporters

This document sets out what our supporters do and how to invite them to join Centre.
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Centre reviews

This document sets out both what the quarterly Centre review is for and what it should include.
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Running events

This document sets out how to invite people to events, sorting out what date the event is held on and publicising the event.
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Joining our team

This document sets out how individuals join our team.

Agreements

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Volunteer agreement

This document sets out what a volunteer agreement is, what it isn’t, what you can expect as a member of the Centre team, leaving Centre and no confidence votes.