Hello all.
We had a meeting at the end of last week to talk about developing plans for
the 2006 conference. One of the first things we need to organise is a
venue, and to do this, we need dates. At this point, we'd like to let you
all know about the dates that we're thinking of booking. We'd like to do
this early to check out whether there are any major objections to the dates
we're suggesting, and also so that they can go into people's diaries.
We are looking to book a local community centre (some info can be found
here:
www.goeast.gov.uk/goee/docs/ 193516/193520/347716/PR_Case_Study_PMFCRC.doc)
for either 2 or 3 days. If we go for 3 days, we suggest Weds-Fri 20-22
Sept. If we go for just 2 days, we suggest Thurs-Fri 21-22 September. At
Newcastle we talked about a third day to focus on action. We wondered how
many people would be interested in attending this day. I suspect it may be
a smaller group, and in this case, we would only need to book part of the
Priory Centre.
The facilities at the Priory include one large hall and 2 smaller spaces
adjacent and another upstairs (each of these rooms would be suitable for
workshops and small presentations for about 20 - 30 people, the hall will
hold 100 +). I don't think the upstairs room is accessible to people in
wheelchairs, and so we will need to consider whether to use this room at
all, and if so, how to arrange the programme so that nobody is excluded
from parts of the conference that they would like to attend because of
accessibility problems. I think we could do this by being organised enough
in advance to ask people who need wheelchair access about their choices of
workshops. I'll check out for definite if there is access or not.
But maybe this is too much detail?
We'd like to book it up quite soon, so please let me know if there are any
major concerns about the dates, the venue or anything else. I'd also be
grateful if we could get some feedback on whether they think a third day
for action is a good idea.
I can give more info about the planning as we go along, or if anyone has
particular suggestions or questions (like who's involved, etc). We'll be
looking for a bit of help from the list in a couple of areas, particularly
in seeking out potential presenters and reviewing abstracts, so any
volunteers would be most welcome to get in touch.
Best wishes,
Wendy
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