ACoRP's Community Rail Forum - closing to give way to better options

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From ACoRP^▸ (Association of Community Rail Partnerships)

Dear Community Rail Café member,

We have taken the decision to close the Community Rail Café (communityrailcafe.com), which you are signed up as a member, as of 31/12/19. From January, this web address will instead direct to the main ACoRP website.

Use of the Café has been extremely low over the past two years, and we feel that there are more user-friendly, flexible and useful options for community rail questions and answers, and peer-to-peer support, including through our social media channels (Twitter, Facebook and Linked In), or through our team facilitating contact or buddying between members and partners, which we’re always happy to do. We have also increasingly built in time for interaction, networking and Q&A sessions at our events, offered to our members for free. In addition:

Facebook - in the new year, we will be setting up new groups on the ACoRP Facebook page, where members and partners can ask questions, give advice and promote activities. You can find our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ACoRP.UK/. Click ‘like’ and ‘follow’, to keep up to date. We will send you and email in the new year to let you know when the groups are up and running. In the meantime, do let us know what topics you would find useful for us to cover.

Twitter and LinkedIn - We’ll also be asking more questions and starting conversations through our Twitter (https://twitter.com/ACoRPOffice) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/acorpuk) channels, which we encourage members to make use of to engage with us and the wider community rail network.

Advice on social media - If you are an ACoRP member, and your partnership or group is not on social media, or you’d like help making the most of it, you can access advice from our communications and marketing manager Nik Schofield on nikolas@acorp.com.uk, and/or see our guidance sheet.

Community Rail News - Finally, do make sure you’re signed up to our monthly Community Rail News, for all our news, events and good practice case studies, and links to info on our website. Sign up here.

Do let us know if you have any queries.

Warm regards

Nik Schofield
Communications & marketing manager

With the URL being redirected to the main ACoRP site, content contributed over the time the Cafe has been running will no longer be accessible. Alert to any Community Rail Cafe members who happen to be reading this to grab off any content useful to you in the next fortnight!