PR Committee

ROLE OF THE PR COMMITTEE

Is a point of contact for the public, media and journalists

Directs the public to their local practitioners

Answers questions on BANT and the nutrition industry

Maintains contact with members and deal with general enquiries

Provides contact points for Group/Corporate health education provision, Work/Life Balance schemes

Provides access to lecturers of adult education courses

ROLE OF THE CHAIR OF THE PR COMMITTEE

Oversees and co-ordinates the projects/functions listed above

Holds position for the minimum of 1 year and maximum of 3 years

Keeps an up to date contact list and sends a copy to the administrator

Finds and trains a replacement before standing down

Arranges meetings 4 times per year

Arranges for minutes to be taken at each meeting

Holds a register for meeting attendance of committee members

Is the main point of contact for the committee

Presents a summary of the year's activities at the AGM

Sends a committee member to present an interim report at BANT council meetings

Updates and adds to the policies and documents that form the duties and goals of the committee

Monitors support provided by the committee members and reports to council at the end of September each year

Submits a register of attendance and hard copy of all the minutes of meetings that took place throughout the year to the administrator, at the end of September each year

COMMITTEE STRUCTURE

4 voluntary BANT Members

Chairman is selected from the committee members, approved by the BANT Council and reports to the Council on all matters regarding PR.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND RECORDS

The Committee meets quarterly with a quorum consisting of the Chair plus 2 committee members.

The Committee keeps written records of all discussions, meetings, and decisions. A summary of events is provided at the all council meetings and the AGM.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Jayne Nelson Dip ION NTCC CNHC Registered Company Sectretary and Chair of PR Committee Graduate of ION in 1999 Dyslexia teacher, Neurodevelopmental and Sound therapist with children with learning difficulties and dyslexia Contact for regional co-ordinators Maintains contact with press, advertising and exhibitors
Dan Davis Student at ION Student Representative 3rd Year Student at ION Qualified Phlebotomist Emergency first responder (Emergency first aider) PADI Rescue Diver Has run a fire prevention and engineering company for 11 years
Maria Griffith Dip ION Previously qualified in Anatomy, Physiology & Massage 1992 ITEC Qualified in Reflexology 1993 IFR Graduated from ION 1998 with Credit Part time practice in West and East Sussex Part time in house Nutrition advisor and committee member of Foresight Fellow of ION Author of Watch It! and Asprin & Haemorrhagic Disease of Newborn (HDN) Technical Editor Detox for Dummies DAN! practitioner specialising in Autism
Lara Just 3rd year student BSc (Hons) NT NHS Service Improvement Facilitator, Cancer Programme, Integrated Cancer Centre for South East London Previous NHS Business Analyst, Cancer Programme, Radiotherapy NLP Practitioner Certified Dietary Analyst and Educator Honours graduate in NT expected by end 2009 Part-time NT practice through college in Wokingham, CNELM (Centre for Nutrition Education and Lifestyle Management) Previous 8 year career in IT as senior research analyst for the semiconductor industry (forecast modelling, supply and demand analyses, market share analyses) Emergency first responder (Emergency first aider) Dip (Economics) from Heidelberg University, Germany German is her native language