 Normally you would go to the FOI platform in your country which in the UK would be what do they know, this site, but because I'm going to be making a demo request, a fake request, I'm using the demo Alavatelli site and I'm going to do it right from the start. What you would do is browse the site for the type of request that you might want to make to see if anyone's made it before. So I want to have a quick look at any requests that have been made to this council. It says that they have had no request, so in which case I need to make a request to this authority, so I press this button here and then it brings up this page which is where I can make my request. At the moment you'll see I've not logged in at all, so you can do this all without logging in and this is where I type a title for my request, so I'm going to say request for communications relating to peace treaty. Okay, making a request and you might not know what to write to start with. The ferret have done an amazing template FOI request which is quite easy to find on their site and if you do their online FOI course as well you have access to it. So this is the kind of the breakdown of the request and it's a good template to use if you want to kind of have some help writing your FOI request. I have used this template so I've written my FOI request out already in this Word document, Google document sorry and I'm just going to copy and paste it in. I've done that so you don't have to watch me type basically. So here we go. I have asked for specific information here between two parties. I've asked for documentary evidence specific terms and signatories related to that and I've specified what type of information I'm expecting to see relating to this and now all I need to do is sign my request there and now I can preview it. So this is a preview of the request. It gives me an opportunity to make sure that I've not put any personal information in. I'm not requesting personal information because you can't request personal information. That would be a subject access request and it shouldn't be public. So I'm happy with everything that I've written here and so instead of editing I can send and publish. This is the point where it's going to ask me to sign in. So if I hadn't already gotten the account which I do here obviously I would be able to create a new account here. Simply ask for name, email and a password. I'm going to sign in to my account. There we go. It's another preview of it just to make sure I'm happy with it. So basically you have three or four chances to edit the request to make sure that it's definitely asking for the things you want. It's including all the information and it's going to the right place. And then you finally get to send it. And here we go. I've sent the request and now I just need to wait for a response. Right here it tells me when I should expect the response by so December 29th 2020. And it says the status here is currently waiting for a response from the body I've made the request to. And this bit here says that the sending status is unknown. Once we know that the request has been delivered to the public body this will show a green tick. And that at that point you know that your request has been delivered to the public body and so the clock should start ticking essentially on your FOI request and you should then have 20 days in which the public body should respond. And there you go. That's that.