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Topics discussed include: training; advertising; funding; talks by Switchboard; calls and meetings; and a potential icebreaker event.

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Topics discussed include: Stonewall Youth Group; draft of new leaflets; Edinburgh Gay Switchboard (EGS) 1990 Conference; advertising; Icebreakers; reverse charges on telephone bill; trainees; and a request for a speaker from the University of Edinburgh Nightline.

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Topics discussed include: advertising; a new information system; Dundee contacts; At Ease; the redesign of the call cards; the Dunblane Conference; Friends of Edinburgh Gay Switchboard; a Lesbian Line Conference; job descriptions; team mentor groups; review of the Welcome Group; Icebreakers; and a training report.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: membership questions; a new advertising officer; the new information system; Forth Friend; feedback on a Lesbian Line social event; job descriptions; Icebreakers; discussion of cards; training report; Stonewall Youth Group; and an update on the 'TV/TS' Group (TV is an abbreviated form of the historical term transvestite used to describe individuals who wear clothes associated with a gender other than their gender assigned at birth, and TS refers to an abbreviated...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: affiliation with the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG); an update on the Scottish 'TV/TS' group; the Welcome Group; Icebreakers; decoration of the Befriending Room; advertising report; an update on the register of interests; election of a new fundraising officer; the Annual Conference; leave of absence requests; discussion of cards; training report; mentor groups; a radio programme about 'transvestism'; Body Positive and Frontliners; International Women's Day;...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: the Sunday Group; Icebreakers; an advertising report; an information report; an update on the annual report; details of the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard (EGS) Annual Conference; phone duty room keys; a plaque for a former member who died of complications related to AIDS; a Box 2000 advertisement; request for a speaker from Samaritans; a discussion of call cards; finances; a reminder to tick column on statistical call sheets if call related to AIDS; International...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: a discussion of calls; membership update; training officer's report and a discussion on 'training TVs'; advertising report; and a vacancy for the Public Relations post.Also included is information on how to handle calls relating to suicide.Note: This item may be upsetting and discusses themes of suicide and mental health.Note: TV is an abbreviated form of the historical term transvestite used to describe individuals who wear...

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Topics discussed include: a Lesbian Line update; training report; discussion of informing trainees that they have been selected; Tay Friend - Perth Phone Line; heating system; a new Stonewall phone line; disabled volunteers and expenses; advertising; and mentor groups.

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Topics discussed include: calls; Lesbian Line report; the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) Residential Weekend and Annual General Meeting; in-service training; services for the hearing impaired; Fife Friend; Forth Friend; premises; Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM); and advertising.

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Topics discussed include: call cards; a membership update; feedback on a benefit night at The Tardis; advertising; Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) trust status; the Treasurer's report; team photographs; Men Against Sexual Abuse; Transtrap; and a Lesbian Line update.