Key Objectives

Member Services - to be more relevant and helpful to our members

Develop and continue to improve resources on our website. Focus on training and development for members with better day to day membership management, including past and new members.

Works in progress include a buddy programme, members services (what we offer), new choir pack, public relations toolkit, a diversity policy, how to do fundraising, developing an artistic programme and repertoire, developing roles and structures in choirs, choirs activities beyond our audience (Outreach), how to create financial management for your choir, event and production manual, social media strategy, how to grow your audience, recruit members, travel and produce concerts, a database/song list, copyright information.

Topics focus for Artistic Directors and Choir leadership.

Deliver weekend of workshops around LEGATO General Meeting

Reaching out and formulating better new membership applications. Maintaining membership information. Clarify and review Associate / Supporter membership for non choir allied musical groups, which do not have voting rights. To Develop Ambassador programme for LEGATO

Various Voices to support the host city and manage the bidding process for future festivals. To safeguard our central essential and significant event.

Work with Team Bologna, to agree the terms of the Festival License and Loan; providing help, support and monitoring; establishing action milestones.

Meeting in Bologna and online to ensure the best possible festival for our members, the Team and people of Bologna and all our stakeholders. Establishing ownership of Various Voices festival.

Create the bidding documents for Festival 2026 with a wide range of help and support documents available to all online, offering meetings / seminars with bidding teams.

Festival disaster planning.

Developing the LEGATO Choirs support policy.

Communications Sharing, listening and talking to our members and others

Review LEGATO obligations under GDPR for member and non member choir information storage and publishing on our website.

Launch a new visually dynamic website.

Increase and overhaul of social media platforms and standardisation of LEGATO messaging.

Clean up dead links on websites and develop better links to choirs, Board members and links to other organisations.

Looking at fundraising and the Members Services flow on the website.

Develop a new template for the LEGATO newsletter, with improved content, and review other mailing options with more focus on women and diversity.

A LEGATO video presence with a Youtube channel. Improve our history, our stories, for our website.

Develop LEGATO Visual Identity Guidelines and create a central list of domain names owned by LEGATO

Host list of member choir concerts considering using Google Calendar with self upload concert information.

Governance / Finance

Full review of Articles of Association (our Constitution) translation to English, liaising with the German Authorities about the changes, the online voting and General Meeting plans.

To carry out a further review of the Articles of Association to include online voting and online General Meetings as a permanent option for LEGATO, (the current arrangements are time limited by German Law).

Invoicing of all member choirs for subscriptions, maintaining the accounts, reporting to the board and liaising with the auditor.

Create LEGATO Budget and provide periodical management accounts.

Review options and costs for insurance.

Election Voting Procedures and Guidelines for General Meetings, developing an On-Line meeting format and voting for General Meeting.

Instigate Board members assessment, skills matrix, conflict of interest and Board membership outline.