RCN West Kent and Medway Branch AGM Event
04 Sep 2025, 09:30 - 15:15
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Branch AGM event open to all West Kent and Medway members.
Come along to this AGM event to elect your new team and to contribute to plans for 2026.
You'll also enjoy a free light lunch and benefit from 2 hours of CPD.
Agenda:
- 9:30am - Registration and networking
- 9:50am - Welcome and opening remarks - Pontiana Bruno, Branch Chair
- 10:00am – ‘Staff wellbeing and menopause' session - Heidi Jackson, Wellbeing Co-ordinator at Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- 11:10am – Break – tea, coffee, snacks
- 11:20am – ‘Workplace organising’ session - Max Dewhurst, RCN South East Organiser
- 12:30pm - Lunch
- 1:10pm – Branch meeting: apologies/congratulations/sympathies; reading, amends and actions/matters from last AGM minutes
- 1.25pm – 2025 reports from Treasurer, Secretary and Chair
- 1.35pm – Election of officers
- 2.30pm – Feedback/questions
- 2.45pm – CPD certificates
- 3.00pm – Closing remarks
- 3.15pm – Ends
What is an AGM?
Your Branch AGM is the perfect time to review the year and plan activities for the coming year. It is an opportunity to welcome new members and decide on a committee structure. Any member of a branch can stand for one of the governance roles and if a role is contested an election may be held.
Governance roles
Each Branch must have a chair, treasurer and secretary. What these roles involve is set out here.
Taking on one of these roles is a brilliant opportunity to gain some personal development and you will be supported by the RCN when you start. If you are interested in one of these roles, please let the croydon.office@rcn.org.uk know before the AGM.
Representatives
If you are an accredited rep, the AGM is the time when the branch will decide to retain your accreditation, or in some rare cases, disaccredit you. For this reason, it is important you make every effort to attend.
The RCN is proud of the diversity of the UK’s nursing workforce and our membership. It is important to us that nominations are encouraged from under-represented groups in our governance structures including those who identify as women, members from the Global Majority, LGBTQ+ community and those with a disability, as well as from members working in any sector, whether employed by the NHS, independent health and social care employers, or the third sector.
Book your place using the button above.
Croydon office
croydon.office@rcn.org.uk
Bat and Ball Centre
Crampton's Road
Sevenoaks
TN14 5DN
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