"This is an open letter I've run past other volunteers at the QYLSE meet today. We've been discussing what we want to do within QYN and we all feel there's a s serious problem with leadership. We all want to be more active but feel we can't do anything without official say-so and we just aren't receiving the support we need."
Fair enough. But what of the rest of forum? I mean there are lots of other people, yet they have been overlooked completely. Why does LSE seem to think that it is more important than the rest of the country?
"Once upon a time QYN was amazingly popular and loved by its members. These days people are saying that if it wasn't for London meets, they wouldn't bother. They're saying the site is too complicated and they aren't getting the support or social interaction they need. I don't think it's too melodramatic to say that QYN is dying around you."
Funnily, It was popular, before LSE members started to become Moderators and in fact most of the volunteers of the forum. Again there are other areas to the country but clique voting tend to cause members from one area to be elected into positions off power, which then makes other members feel pushed of the site.
"There are two main problems – lack of leadership and the site. There are so many people who really want to give back to the community that has given them so much. For example, Avery and myself were discussing the need for a head volunteer role that we were willing to share. We would organise who was doing what role, and deal with membership issues – a role that is desperately needed. We then find that the role has been given to someone else, someone no one really knows or trusts, without any consultation. We worry that this person is not at all suitable for the role and that Avery and my idea was completely passed over without any explanation – especially when we were told it was being considered."
And you think that these two, untrained, none youth worker background members would be qualified to be able to monitor and manage other young volunteers? No I don't think that would be safe or sensible. Maybe you should actually get to know the person chosen for the role and their background, because believe me, the right man for the job.
QYN is far from perfect, but if the LSE members seem to have a belief that the rest of the forum don't count, should they truly be able or responsible to make the decisions for the rest of the forum, the founders are doing what they do and doing it rather well mind. Yes there are improvements but they should be decided among the entirety not among 55%.
