The National Co-ordinator's role is to support Catholic Chaplains in Higher Education and to support the network of HE Catholic Chaplains.

A Handbook for Catholic Chaplains in HE is available electronically from me.

The committee plan the conference and also discuss issues of concern that come to their notice.

Please do contact me if you have concerns to raise,

Roberta

A reminder that our annual conference is at Loyola Hall, Liverpool from 18 to 20 June. We have a good programme including Fr John Udris on spiritual guidance and a Head of Student services on dealing with sudden death. As always, the most valuable part of the conference is the opportunity to share experience, both with formal sessions and in all the informal conversation that goes on. I do hope many chaplains will be able to join us.

We had 4 very good regional meetings last term and the SW chaplains meet in Bristol on May 2nd.

I hope the rest of the academic year goes well.

Some Catholic chaplains take groups to Taize, sometimes as part of an ecumenical chaplaincy group. It can be a life-changing experience for young people to go there, but for many students there is not a chaplaincy group going. Two of our ecumenical colleagues, Andrew Goodman (Bedfordshire, Luton campus) and Ruth Maxey(Keele) have set up a group which groups or individual students can join to plan to visit Taize in the weeks beginning 16th and 23rd June. I'll bring some flyers to the regional meetings for information go to http://groupspaces.com/taize/item/172826 or download a brochure bit.ly/taizebrochure2012