Next Meeting

Our next and first meeting of the 26-27 academic year of the Regional Committee will be online on Thursday 1st October 4.30-6pm

Teams meeting invite and paperwork will emailed to senior branch reps nearer the date by the Regional Office. Exact dates for the rest of the year will be decided on October 1st but will be within the below

  • 15 days from 23 January     – Congress Motions / LESE TUC Nominations
  • 15 days from 16 April    – AGM
  • One post Congress TBC

Look forward to seeing you there

Meeting Dates for 25-26

Our remaining Regional Committee meeting dates for 25-26 are below , all meetings are online on a  Thursday 4.30-6pm

Teams meeting invite and paperwork will emailed to senior branch reps nearer the date by the Regional Office.

  • 29th January
  • 16th April
  • Post Congress meeting TBC

Look forward to seeing you there

Meeting Dates announced for 24-25

Hi all

Our regional Committee meeting dates for 24 -25 are below , all meetings are online on a  Thursday 4.30-6pm

Teams meeting invite and paperwork will emailed to senior branch reps nearer the date by the Regional Office.

  • 26th September
  • 6th Feb
  • 24th April AGM * depending on response from delegates this may become a F2F + social on Sat 26th potentially in Norwich

Don’t forget we will also have our usual stall at Burston Strike School day on Sunday Sept 1st – see here for more details – https://burstonstrikeschool.wordpress.com/2024-rally/

Look forward to seeing you there

This year at Burston – Supporting UEA & Remembering Steve Boyce

This year at Burston Strike School Rally the UCU Regional Committee stall had a theme of Defend UEA with Mark Walmsley the Branch Chair / President joining us on the stall as well as being invited to speak on the main stage to update the crowd on the UEA dispute.

We also remembered our dear comrade Steve Boyce who passed away earlier this year who was a regular at Burston – see the separate Tribute To Steve page – https://ehcr.web.ucu.org.uk/steve-boyce-rest-in-power/

Supporting the HE Strike Rally

Great afternoon with our Uni colleagues at the national strike Rally & March in London . Fantastic turn out. Great to meet some comrades from across the region including members from @openuniversity @UCUEHCRegion @AngliaRuskinUCU @UEA_UCU @CranfieldUcu @oubucu @CambridgeUCU and many more Solidarity from all in FE across the Region

EHCR Clusters / Contact

Dear all

One the main objectives of the Eastern & Home Counties Regional Committee is to promote and foster solidarity between branches across sectors. To that aim we have produced a contact list with a difference that we are referring to as Regional Cluster Contacts. We have attempted in conjunction with the Regional Office to group institutions geographically and put them in a numbered cluster. The aim is very simple; that institutions within clusters (if they haven’t done so already) contact each other preferably meeting on a semi-regular basis so that they can exchange information, ideas, friendship and when necessary, offer practical support & solidarity.

This is not meant to be too formal an approach or be an increase to your workload but just to be a resource to assist local branches to reach out and make contact. The list will be updated at the beginning of every academic year and stored in 2 places for convenience which will be the Regional Office website and the Regional Committee’s website. (all contact info on the list is already in the public domain btw for those concerned about GDPR)

We do hope you find this resource useful and look forward to seeing you at our next Regional Committee meeting.

Reg Cttee BRANCH clusters with rep contact details

Regional Committe Meeting Cancelled

 

Dear all

To avoid any confusion, this is just to confirm that the Regional Committee meeting due to take place on Saturday 18th is cancelled due to Covid-19 crisis.. At this time rather than duplicate we would encourage all branches to log-on to the Regional Office briefings via Zoom so you can directly share experience and get advice from other branches and the Regional Team.  

Next one is Wednesday 29th 2-4pm – contact the office easternadmin@ucu.org.uk if you are not receiving notice of these or need support on using Zoom etc.

There is also lots of advice via the UCU website https://www.ucu.org.uk/covid19

Hopefully it won’t be too long until we are sharing some of Nadia’s great cake and meeting with you in person.

Take care & stay safe

Eastern & Home Counties Regional Committee Exec.