CRES Steering Group- April 2010

How does CRES run? Every six months we hold a Steering Group meeting somewhere in the UK (currently Warmington, nr. Banbury or Haddenham, Bucks). This time five of us met at John Neal’s farm at Warmington (we had two apologies) on April 19th 2010. The meeting takes a good four hours to cover what is always a fairly packed agenda. On the agenda we have fairly standard items like student progress, student admissions, publicity, a review of previous course meetings, planning the next meetings and so on. We look at what our parent bodies CRuC and JRI are doing, and check our finances (OK, we were pleased to hear!). This time we were also progressing the new modules that we hope to have out for the autumn. It was a particularly pleasant day at John’s farm, and we were able to have lunch outside. The meetings are chaired very effectively by John Neal, and we et through a lot of work, but there is a lot of fun as well. The picture shows four of the group l. to. r. : Dr. John Lockwood; Mrs Lizzie Rushton; Revd Dr. John Reader;  and Mr. John Neal. Dr. Martin Hodson was taking the photo!