Carol Spencer
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Author: Carol Spencer
Official ASLI email: centralanglia@asli.org.uk
Date of report: 2nd June 2008
Current membership of your Group:
17 Full members
9 Associate members
2 Students
2 Supporters
5 Corporate Supporters
Summary of recent events
ASLI AGM
Summary of recent significant contacts:
Meeting with PD secretary and Frances Elton regarding training/workshops in our region. It has now been arranged for the workshops to take place (subject to numbers) on 11th July in Norwich at SportsPark. This will be combined with a regional meeting
I regret to inform you that Gráinne Sheehan has stepped down as an ASLI rep for our region. The position remains vacant at the time of writing.
Meetings planned in the next 3 months:
Large NEC meeting at Birmingham on 14th June 2008
CEA regional meeting to be held at SportsPark on 11th July 2008, 9am – 10.30am
Dates for the ASLI Calendar:
11th July 2008, 9am – 10.30am – CEA regional meeting. To be held at SportsPark in Norwich
11th July 2008 11am-5pm - Workshops with Frances Elton at SportsPark, Norwich
Region : Central East Anglia
Carol Foster - Regional Chair
Events/Meetings planned in the next three months.
The CEA region has had no events or meetings since the last report.
We had provisionally pencilled in a linguistics training session with Frances Elton
coupled with a regional meeting for February. Unfortunately due to time restrictions in
getting things set up we did not achieve that. However the PD Chair and I will be
meeting with Frances on 31st March to discuss what training she can provide for us.
Hopefully from that meeting we will have a firm date for our training event/meeting.
Any other information
I regret to inform you that Lyn Chase has decided to step down as an ASLI rep for our
region. The position remains vacant at the time of writing.
CEA Quarterly Report September 07
Having assumed the position of Chair in May this year it has taken me a little while to get a handle on what my role, remit and responsibilities are but with support from my fellow CEA members I feel I am now getting up to speed.
We have been a largely inactive region recently and it’s important that we breathe new life into the old dog and take advantage of what ASLI has to offer us and utilise the funds available to us in a productive manner. This has been echoed in sentiment by the committed, motivated nucleus of CEA members.
With this in mind we have hosted our first regional training in a while on 14th September - an all day workshop on Mental Health Interpreting presented by Julie Watkins. A thoroughly informative, successful and well attended event. We hope to be able to build on this initial success with more training events in 2007/2008.
During the break times impromptu discussions ensued about what other training events members would like. As a result of these discussions I now have a number of avenues to pursue for further training events. Discussions were also had about how to re-establish regional meetings – a particular bug-bear of many a CEA chair of how to accommodate such a large geographical area. Some initials thoughts have been bandied about and we now need to discuss these further in order to accurately gauge the region’s views.
The most important aim that we as a region have is re-establishing CEA in terms of:
- Training events – training requested included deafblind interpreting, personal safety, intermediary training
- Regional meetings
- Establishing or re-establishing links with other regions – LSE region has offered to potentially co-host an event with us at some point - something we would be keen to do.
- Networking within the CEA region
I am looking forward to reporting back in the next quarterly report that we have succeeded in some if not all our aims in putting us back on the map!!
Carol Foster
CEA Chair.
The group meets quarterly in different parts of the region. Information about meetings can be obtained from the reps listed above or from the Regional Reps. The meetings provide training and an opportunity for networking. The region is discussing ways of holding local meetings more regularly.