Join us for our Summer Social next Thursday 17 July from 6.30 pm, for a relaxed and friendly gathering to connect, unwind and celebrate the summer! 🍉 🍹
Whether you’re a long-time member or just getting involved, it’s a great chance to meet colleagues, share stories and build our community.
We will be at the Harrison Arms Pub, 28 Harrison Street, London WC1H 8JF from 6.30pm.
We’d love to see you there!
Free drink and nibbles – all welcome including your magazines friends and colleagues who are interested in joining the NUJ.
Please RSVP so we have an idea of numbers. Contact Alan Gibson at alangibson10@hotmail.com.
Look forward to seeing you!
NUJ London Magazine Branch Committee
Category: Events
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NUJ LMB Summer Social – 17 July, London
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NUJ London Magazine Branch meeting – Monday 19 May
Date and time: Monday 19 May 2025, 6.30pm
Online-only meeting: Join with the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81294163342
(Full Zoom details at the end.)Dear Members
Our May branch meeting will be an organising meeting with a report-back from the NUJ’s biennial Delegate Meeting from the branch delegates, including motions and policy agreed at the Conference that we will be planning work on.
We will also plan future meeting topics – currently the following speaker topics are planned but please do feed back your ideas and requests for other topics and any workshops you would like the branch to run.
· The future of funding models for magazine publishing
· Media representation and democracy
· Pay rate disclosure campaign
· Use and impact of AI in magazine and journal publishing
· Update from the new NUJ General Secretary
· Future relationship with the EU and trade unionism
Plus usual branch business, including workplace reports.
All welcome – please do join and have your say in agreeing Branch policy and work for the year ahead.
Agenda
• Approval of April meeting minutes (draft minutes attached)
• Report-back from DM and motions relevant to LMB to follow up on
• Branch plans for 2025/26 including meeting topics
• Workplace reports
• AOB
We look forward to seeing you there!
London Magazine Branch CommitteeContact for any queries (please use all email addresses for a speedier response):
Niall Mulholland (chair): nialldmulholland@gmail.com
Mike Simons (membership officer): mikesimons@btinternet.com
Alan Gibson (treasurer): alangibson10@hotmail.comJoin our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/LondonMagsNUJ/
Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13019132/
Visit the branch website: https://www.nujlmb.org.uk/Follow us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/nujmags.bsky.social
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Time: May 19, 2025 06:30 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81294163342Meeting ID: 812 9416 3342
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TONIGHT (ONLINE ONLY) – NUJ London Magazine Branch – Legacy of the Miners’ Strike + AGM, Monday 17 March
Date and time: Monday 17 March 2025, 6.30pm
Location: ONLINE ONLY – Please don’t come to Headland House as it will be closed. (Full Zoom details at the bottom of this invite.)1. The Miners’ Strike 40 years on and the lessons for today
Our March meeting will start with discussion of a new book documenting the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike and what it can teach us as trade union activists and media workers today.
Author and Magazine branch member Mike Simons will talk about how the book, titled Blood Sweat and Tears, came together – describing key moments in the miners’ struggles and how supporters documented events on the picket lines and within communities to fight back against the establishment narrative, record the reality and build solidarity for their struggle.
For more information and to order Blood Sweat and Tears visit www.minersstrike.com
Discussion will be followed by the branch Annual General Meeting (AGM), plus regular branch business including Late Notice Motions for Delegate Meeting and regular monthly branch business.
2. Branch AGM 2025
The branch is holding its AGM this month, including election of a new committee, reports from the Chair, Membership and Treasurer and an update from our new National Organiser for Magazines Huda Elmi.
Please come along to hear updates on progress and plans for Magazine branches and chapels and have your say – and contact branch officers (details below) to put yourself forward for a position on the committee and any ideas for planning activity for the year ahead.
3. Branch business
• Approval of February meeting minutes (attached)
• Discussion of Late Notice Motions for DM (attached)
• Attitudes to DM motions – instructions to Delegation
• Renewal of affiliation to Woodcraft Folk and donation towards trip
• Renewal of Hounslow TC affiliation / representation
• Workplace reports
• AOB
We look forward to seeing you online!
London Magazine Branch CommitteeContact for any queries (please use all email addresses for a speedier response):
Niall Mulholland (chair): nialldmulholland@gmail.com
Cristina Lago (comms officer): cristina.lago@gmail.com
Mike Simons (membership officer): mikesimons@btinternet.com
Join our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/groups/LondonMagsNUJ/
Visit the branch website: https://www.nujlmb.org.uk/Follow us on Bluesky @nujmags and X: @NUJmags
Time: Mar 17, 2025 06:30 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84117385503?pwd=brugONQrbSh9arwds8s5s9BdxQcWgA.1
Meeting ID: 841 1738 5503
Passcode: 249345