Alison Morewood

Jan Stringer

Marian Foster

Mandy Irvine

Marnie Dean

Lynne Marland

Rosie Plunkett

Denise Bevon (minute taker)

Pat Hunter

1.

Welcome

Alison welcomed everyone and passed on apologies.

Actions from last meeting . Denise has now set up a meeting with Jeannette Jackson. She has agreed to be interviewed about her career as part of the ‘Spotlight on…feature’ on the CAR website.

Alison has sent a draft case study template to Jan to circulate to members. Completed.
Receipt format sent to Jan letterhead with logo completed and Jan to share with members.

Jan to share receipt format with members. Completed.

2.

Marian Foster Treasurer reported on the finances. Year end £5,613.78.

The bulk of the expenses have gone on web hosting and support for the website. Stationery over the year and £150 for training.
Rosie Plunkett and Lynne Marland’s presence at the Kegworth Conference on behalf of CAR. They both reported back on the content of the conference saying it was a very informative event, they met many interesting people from around the world working in varying fields of Reflexology. There were 17 very interesting speakers.
A float of £20 is held by Marian.
Action: Rosie will be publishing information on the website about the conference. She has kindly offered to give half an hour to any member who would like to hear more about this event.

3.

Alison responded, on behalf of CAR, to the CNHC regarding their invitation to be a member of their consultation group and commended the dedicated efforts of their team with the Core Curriculum draft review. Alison raised the subject of some of their wording. They refer to ‘stimulating and sedating effects of treatment’. In her letter Alison spoke of the amazing work of the late Clive O’Hara, the founder of CCR and CAR where ‘STIMULATION’ is a Reflexology swear word. The effect upon the part of the body to which the reflex point or area corresponds is not one of stimulation, it is NORMALISATION. Alison has had no response to her correspondence which she and all present at the AGM consider to be disrespectful by not replying and lack of consideration with this contribution from CAR.

Action . Correspond with CNHC and publish the content of Alison’s response on our website, to clarify & highlight CAR’s fundamental disagreement with CNHC’ current wording(as explained above), now published in the newly edited Core Curriculum for Reflexology in the UK.

4.

Training

Alison Morewood has been invited to continue training at The Christie by Sarah Wilkins Senior Comp. Therapist & Courses Coordinator.
Future Courses : CCR Hand Reflexology weekend 1s t /2 nd December 2018 which is being held at the Christie. To attend this course bookings can be made on The Christie website.