What is Soc-Parenting? (This Sec is same as on Front Page, lest you came from there)
This is a Lighter Hearted Societies parallel of College Parenting, run by Alternative Welcome and its subsidiary SOFTPOMS .
0 If you wish for people like College Parents and/or to be told about/shown around some of the most welcoming and tolerant lighter-hearted Socs in Cambridge , email altwelcome-general-owner@srcf.net with your: Name, Address and College/Department (if you have such); you must email from your official university email address if you possess a such. Likewise if you are offering to Soc-Parent. If you are in, or interested in any, lighter-hearted socs, also be welcome to specify which if that is a big issue to you, so as to improve the chances of matching Soc-Parents and soc-Children on that basis.
1 Do this and agree to abide by Alternative Welcome's rules during the Soc-Parenting activity and you will be alotted 1, 2 or 3 Soc-Parents/Soc Children accordingly.
2 Foremost, we are a tolerant people. During our activities, we do not accept abusivenesses or prejudices due to race, gender, LGBT-ness, age, occupation etc. The last of these means, among other things, that we consider graduates, undergraduates, people at Anglia Ruskin university, ex-Cambridge people etc as *equals* rather than as anykind of division on which abuse, exclusion or any other kinds of prejudice might be based. The only people we do not accept are those who are intolerant of others, or whose irresponsibilites put the society and its benevolent motives and image at risk. In these and further ways (see below link to our Disclaimer), Alternative Welcome is a Safer Space provider and itself indeed operates under Safer Space conditions, and that includes this Soc-Parenting venture of ours. In a nutshell, our Safer Spaces mean "no personal abuse, anyone upset during/over our activities by another is welcome to say so, with apologies and non-repeats expected".
3 If you volunteer to have Soc-Children and you get some, you should arrange to meet them. And to do at least 1 of have a family meal or take them to a mutually agreeable Lighter Hearted Society, at which you shall ensure that they are introduced, welcomed and get to know what the society is about (to occur within the first term or in the first week of the second term).
Important Conduct Rules (New to this page)
4 To be involved with Alternative Welcome's Soc-Parenting scheme is to consent to be briefly met. But not a card to intrude beyond welcome. It is a Promise to be friendly toward any fellow Alternative Welcome people encounter'd Soc-Parenting :) And to whoever else whilst one is out Soc-Parenting.
5 This activity is purely for welcoming, welfare and a small amount of truly harmless fun. It has zero concept of competitivity, and nosuch will be tolerated to take root here.
6 Whilst actively participating in this activity, use common sense at all times. Each Alternative Welcome person is entirely responsible for their own behaviour during Alternative Welcome activities such as the Soc-Parenting scheme. We do not condone any course of action that inconveniences other people, especially Porters and the general public. If challenged as to your presence (whilst going to visit your soc-son/soc-mum), say the truth: "I am here to see a friend" and entirely accept it if the challengers ask you to leave. If you and the person being visited are OK with having each others' phone numbers you can ask if they'd collect you from the gate under such circumstances. Soc-Parenting is not to involve any actions that are unsafe or that may cause alarm to members of the public. The Soc-Parenting scheme's activities do not involve acting in any ways that are at all confusible with thieves, stalkers or any other kind of criminal element. Additionally, out of respect for others, the Soc-Parenting activity is *quiet* and *discreet*. It's the exam term and all that...
7 Soc-Parenting is not to in any shape or form disrupt university teaching, libraries, hospitals, sports/music/acting facilities/activities, places of worship, places of proper employment. Nor is it to intrusively take over another society's SocMeet. Laid-back societies allow for brief introductions and brief goodbyes. They sometimes have a half-time break or an aftermath; part of a such can be used for further introductions and question-asking. One can do so more widely in non-single-conversation societies such as RockSoc or Fire Troupe, where it is habitual for subgroups to hold some conversations.
8 Personal Safety. Unsociable Hours: the Soc-Parenting scheme does not entail turning up unannounced to the room of another participant between 9 pm and 10 am. It is also generally based on occasional meetings pre-arranged and consented to by all parties involved. The Soc-Parenting scheme is elsewise sensitive to women's safety issues, LGBT safety issues and any other personal safety issues. In particular
A) the Soc-Parenting scheme does not entail leaving stranded after dark any people not OK with that.
B) the Soc-Parenting scheme respects personal boundaries and does not intrude into privacy. Furthermore, the Alternative Welcome Safer Space Providing Soc-Group is Not A Dating Service.
9 Due to potentially serious issues or consequences, you are not allowed to lie to any of Alternative Welcome's Safer Space Custodians or to anybody they call on to assist them.
10 SafeOut: in the very unlikely event of a problem arising during a Soc-Parenting activity, use this call to alert all present that there is a problem, so that they immediately pay attention to the nature of the problem. That is how our Safer Space calls out that there is a serious problem. CallOut will be used to indicate it is another of our members that's causing the problem.
Our society Group's kind of Disclaimer, as can be found on the Cake Faerie page also applies. Finally, don't confuse Alternative Welcome's own soc-Group with the rather larger number of socs that we recommend. All active branches of the *former* are marked as such as a subset of the Safer Spaces section of the recommended soc-list page.