The date for the next Deputy FDs meeting has been set for Friday 30th November, kindly hosted by the University of Cumbria (the Main Room of the Beehive Building - Ambleside Campus) - with the usual meal out the night before hopefully.
Agenda
09:45 Registration (Tea and Coffee)
10.00 Welcome and Introductions
10.15 Financial planning in a challenging environment (Kate McLaughlin-Flynn – Director of Finance and Resources at the University of Cumbria)
10:45 What have the Romans (Bots) ever done for us? (Chris Lucas - Head of Business Development at Blucap Ltd)
11:30 Break (Tea and Coffee)
11:45 Simitive update on: Academic Workload Planning; Costing; plus Benchmarking discussion (Alan Bates - Head of Strategic Product Development at Simitive)
12:30 THE Awards 2018 - Outstanding financial performance (Elizabeth Welch - University of Edinburgh)
13:15 Lunch
14.15 BUFDG Learning & Development Group update (Rachel McLone – BUFDG)
14:40 AOB (including ideas for future external speakers)
15:00 Round the table discussion
16.15 Finish
Arrival
The meeting will commence at 10.00am in The Beehive building. The meeting will be held in the main room in the building – building number 2. A campus map can be found at:
There is some pay and display parking on site it is quite limited. There is a large public pay and display car park over the road from the campus and the address is: 1-3 Rydal Rd, Ambleside LA22 9AN.
Evening meal arrangements:
Zeffirellis at:
7.30 for 8.00pm on 29th November
Suggested accommodation
There are no major hotel chains in the area but lots of very good B&B style accommodation. Some suggestions include:
The Gables:https://www.thegables-ambleside.co.uk/
Brathay Lodge:http://www.brathay-lodge.net/
Rooms at the Apple Pie:http://www.applepieambleside.co.uk/accommodation/rooms
Next meeting
Date and venue to be confirmed.
Tagged : Regional Meeting
Type : Meeting
Please contact info@bufdg.ac.uk for more information
