Regional Women S Committee & Network

Regional Women’s Committee & Network

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1st September 2016

Dear Colleague

UNISON CYMRU/WALES REGIONAL WOMEN’S COMMITTEE MEETING

14 September 2016

Margam Castle Education Centre, Training Room,

Margam Country Park, Port Talbot

10.30am – 3.30pm

The next meeting of the Regional Women’s Committee will be held Wednesday, 14th September 2016 at:

Margam Country Park
Margam
Neath, Port Talbot
SA13 2TJ

If you are travelling by public transport and need transfer between Pyle and the venue, please contact Jane Gebbie, tel: 07508 643052. If you are using your own vehicle, free parking is available in the Orangery car park – limited disabled car parking spaces are available.

The meeting will start promptly at 10.30am and finish no later than 3.30pm. Please note that lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Confirmation of your attendance is required. To confirm your attendance and identify any access or other requirements,please contact Jenny Griffin on 029 20729414 or email: .

Please find enclosed an agenda, the minutes of the last meeting and a location map.

Yours sincerely

Jenny Griffin

Area Organiser

UNISON CYMRU/WALES

REGIONAL WOMEN’S COMMITTEE MEETING

Margam Castle Education Centre: Training Room, Margam Park

Wednesday, 1st September 2016

10.30am – 3.30pm

AGENDA

Welcome

Minutes of last meeting

Matters Arising

Correspondence

Action Plan -

Review of National Work Plan

Women’s Toolkit

International Women’s Day (March)

Elimination of Violence towards women

Refugee Crisis (supporting refugee women)

Newsletter

Development Weekend 2017

Motions

Constitution

WASPI

Merthyr Rising

Succession Planning:

National Women’s Constitution

RWC AGM 2016

Mentoring

Budget

Reports

Any Other Business

Venue of next meeting

Margam Country ParkMargam Neath Port Talbot SA13 2TJ Website: (01639) 881 635

POST CODE: SA13 2TJ (this gets you close to the Park entrance. Once you see our brown tourist signs follow them.)

By Car:

From the South-East and South-West: the M4 motorway runs directly to Margam from London and from Heathrow (the M25/M24 from Gatwick Airport); the M5/M4 from the West Country; and the M6/M5/M50/M4 from the Midlands and the North; the M4 from West Wales.

Exit at Junction 38

By Bus:

Stops at main road entrance, 5 minutes walk to reception area
From Bridgend & Pyle: First Cymru X1 or X4
From Neath: First Cymru 226 or 227 to Port Talbot Bus Station, then X1 or X4
From Port Talbot Bus & Train Stations: First Cymru X1 or X4
From Swansea: First Cymru X1

Bus information Traveline Cymru; 0871 200 22 33; text 84268

By Coach:

Theclosest coach station when arriving by coach is within the Port Talbot bus station. It is then easy to catch eitherthe First Cymru X1 or X4bus which will drop to at the main road entrance to the park. For further coach information

By Train:

Frequent Great Western links London Paddington, Reading, Swindon and Bristol Parkway (connections from north east England and Midlands) with Port Talbot. Arriva Trains Wales direct to Port Talbot from Cardiff, Newport, Hereford, Shrewsbury, Crewe and Manchester, with connections at Cardiff from south and west of England. For overseas visitors, there are good rail/air links from London Gatwick & Heathrow, Bristol and Cardiff International Airports.
Bus X1or X4from outside Port Talbot train station; taxis also available at station

Train information National Rail Enquiries: 08457 48 49 50