RCN Greater Bristol Branch AGM and study day
07 Oct 2025, 09:00 - 16:30
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This is a chance not only to increase your knowledge on a range of topics but also to support your local RCN activists by attending your branch AGM in person. Influence your branch's future - elect or join your branch executive team for next year, and ratify your local RCN reps.
Stay informed about local issues and keep your branch executive team informed of anything you think they should know about.
The event programme is as follows:
| Time | Presentation/ Activity | Presenter |
| 09.00 am | Registration and refreshments |
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| 09.15 am | Welcome and introduction to the day |
Andrea Bennett – Branch Chair |
| 09.30 am | Caring for service users with dementia | Louise Chambers - Mental Health Lead & Dementia Advisors Lead, Sirona care & health |
| 10.15 am | Caring for service users with sickle cell anaemia |
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| 11.15 am | Break and refreshments |
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| 11.30 am | The importance of having a will |
Daniel Price - New Law |
| 11.50 am | How the RCN library can help you to study |
Caroline Lynch - RCN Library and Information Service |
| 12.15 pm | Living with polio and Post-Polio Syndrome |
Kripen Dhrona - Chief Executive British Polio Fellowship |
| 12.45 pm | Lunch and Networking | |
| 1.30 pm | Focus on Learning Disability Nursing | Tracy Pouard - Clinical Specialist Nurse - Sirona Adult Learning Disability Health Service |
| 3.30 pm | Branch AGM: voting for committee members and refreshments |
Andrew Christaki - Senior RCN Officer |
| 4.30 pm | Close |
Andrea Bennett – Branch Chair |
Branch executive committee roles up for election
The following branch executive committee seats are up for election: chair, secretary and treasurer. The terms of office for all of these positions is 1 January 2026 until 31 December 2026.You can read a description of what the roles involve here in this role descriptor document or this less formal, slightly more accessible poster. If you want to strengthen your position please consider taking on a role or display the poster on your work noticeboard if you can to alert others of the opportunities awaiting them if they get involved with their union at grassroots level.
If you are interested in taking on a branch executive committee role, please submit an expression of interest form by at least a week before the meeting, preferably earlier.
It is vital that you complete a written expression of interest to the regional office because only if nobody has put themselves forward in writing before the AGM can they do so verbally at the AGM itself.
RCN governance rules state that those who have expressed their interest in advance in writing must take precedence over those who express their interest verbally on the day.
Book a place
To book your place online use the button above, or your can contact the RCN Events Registration team on 02920546460 or email them at eventsreg@rcn.org.uk - please quote event number 5468 to help them locate the event efficiently on the system.
Spread the word
Please help spread the word about this event among your friends and colleagues by telling them or putting this poster up wherever you can at work. The more people involved in your branch, the stronger you will be.
If you have any questions you can contact your local branchsecretary:
Fiona King
fiona.king@reps.rcn.org.uk
Conference Rooms
South Bristol Community Hospital
Hengrove Promenade
Bristol
BS14 0DE
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Page last updated - 03/09/2025
