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Monthly Online Living Room
Leti Hawthorn will be hosting an informal monthly meeting for chaplains, starting in 2025. The first six dates are 4th February, 5th March, 1st April, 7th May, 3rd June and 2nd July. For more information, or to sign up, please email secretary@ahpcc.org.uk.
Vacancies
Myton Hospice, in Warwickshire, are currently recruiting for a chaplain / spiritual care practitioner. You can find more information, along with a link to apply, on our current vacancies page.
2025 Membership Renewal Letter from The Treasurer
You can now join or renew your membership for 2025 by downloading the membership forms, available here.
Dear AHPCC member
We have reached that time of year when we ask for your annual membership subscriptions. As we do so, we are aware of the context in which we find ourselves this year. Due to the recent vote on the private members bill regarding assisted dying, the hospice sector is receiving much needed attention regarding the financial pressures across the sector. Of course, this comes at a time when there are also national and local pressures on the public purse. Perhaps this has also impacted your personal situation. Like most organisations AHPCC is not immune to these pressures.
The impact on AHPCC is becoming apparent in the following ways:
1. Slow or late take up of membership.
2. Decisions individuals and hospices are making regarding covering of conference fees.
At present membership costs £45 annually and provides members with access to Regional groups and for those elected, representation of AHPPC internally and externally. As well as the website resources, reduced conference fees and peer support.
Option of monthly standing order payment
We would like to offer a monthly standing order (STO) option for paying membership fees, in the hope that this offers some assistance in the future.
This would involve more administration. So we propose a monthly fee of £4 to cover the annual fee and contribution of 0.25p toward the additional administration costs.
We would anticipate notifying you annually that your renewal is due, so that you can continue or stop your standing order should you choose this option.
You will need to set up the standing order yourself with your bank and our bank details can be found on the membership form.
In order to reduce administration and the number of times we contact you, we will send an annual renewal notice, then follow this up on a maximum of two occasions, one month apart, after which we will send you an email to let you know that your membership has lapsed.
In the event of lapsed membership
The membership year will still run from 1st January – 31st December. However, if your membership lapses, we will let our Regional reps know, so you are removed from the records in keeping with data protection legislation and you will no longer be able to access the group.
This will also impact your ability to remain on the Executive Committee, if that applies to you.
It will always be possible to renew your membership, should you wish to do so. However, we will require that you do this in a timely manner to respect the time and effort it takes to attend to all of this administration.
If you would like to come back to me, Sue or any member of the Executive committee on any of the above, we would be pleased to hear from you.
Warm wishes
Lucyann
AHPCC Treasurer
Religion & Media Briefing: Where next for the Assisted Dying Bill?
The AHPCC was invited to be represented on a discussion arranged by the Religion and Media Centre following on from the Assisted Dying Bill debate. Karen Murphy was able to take part in the discussion on behalf of hospice chaplains working ‘in the field’. Karen writes that while it felt that academic voices were the strongest in the conversation, it was good to take part and offer some insight from our work and the issues we face.
Briefing: Where next for the Assisted Dying Bill?
Chaplaincy Forum
The Chaplaincy Forum for Pastoral, Spiritual & Religious Care in Health met on 10 October 2024 and shared 5 points for information, which can be found on our UKBHC and other Organisations page.
‘Thought for the day’ from Tom Gordon
Tom Gordon was the president of the AHPCC for some years, and has published several books since retiring. He has also continued to produce a daily thought every day since March 2020.
You can find Tom’s thought for today, and for previous days, here
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AHPCC Membership
Is your AHPCC membership paid up and current? If you wish to join the AHPCC or renew your membership, you can download the Membership Form here. Membership is for the calendar year, but applications received after October 1 will cover the new year.
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