
RCN Gloucestershire branch
Getting involved in our branch means more than attending meetings. Whether you’re organising for better conditions, supporting a colleague or pushing for systemic change, your involvement helps turn shared concerns into collective action.
Contact us
Your branch team
- Chair: Ed Speyer
- Secretary: Matthew Stewart
- Treasurer: Campbell Milne
Join our Gloucestershire Facebook group
All branch events
Our branch annual general meeting (AGM)
This is your chance to help set the nursing agenda. Details of the next AGM will be posted in the events section as soon as available.
Our branch and RCN Congress
All members can attend RCN Congress for free. There are also fully funded voting places for members, where travel, accommodation and food are provided. Voting members are there to listen, participate and vote on resolutions that are proposed by RCN branches, forums and committees across the UK.
This year's applications for funded voting places are closed. Details of 2026 funded places will be posted here as soon as available.
Hear from members across our region
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25 Jun 2024
Developing a successful programme for new starters in primary care
Jenny Bowen, Legacy Nurse for Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire Primary Care, explains how she set up a programme for new starters which has helped nearly 80 nurses find their feet.
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29 Apr 2024
Looking forward to this year's Congress in Newport
With a short time before RCN Congress 2024 in Newport, Wales, I’ve been reflecting on the last 12 months since Congress 2023 in Brighton.
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22 Mar 2024
Update on the recent Joint Reps Conference in Bristol
I am Matthew, an RCN steward and South West Board Member for Gloucestershire Branch.
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20 Sep 2023
Get active – what does that even mean?
I became ‘RCN active’ in about 2013 but what does ‘get active’ even mean? Well, for me it's been a rollercoaster of a journey. A journey through which I have made life-long friends and made a difference to colleagues in my workplace and across the profession.
Elections and appointments

Put forward an agenda item for Council

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