The Chairman welcomed everyone to the meeting.

To note any Apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were received from Councillor Kellaway and Gary Homewood.

To agree the minutes of the last meeting.

The minutes of the last meeting on 14 March 2016 were unanimously agreed.

The Members went through the matters arising as follows:

Looking for representatives for all vacancies.

Karen Butler offered to contact Melody Erasmus, who was supposed to be a Member of SACRE but has never attended any meetings.

ACTION: Karen Butler to contact Free Church.

Action: to read and accept the project plan and implement any actions required

Karen Butler attended the meeting.

It was good to meet colleagues of other SACREs and discuss many points. Further work needs to be done and more places of worship need to be visited.

It was great to see that all SACREs were committed to the funding.

Karen Butler discussed the aims, terms of reference and principles from page 21 of the Hub minutes.

A conference has been organised on Wednesday 28 September 2016, 6.00pm – 9.00pm in the Holiday Inn, Winnersh Triangle. The cost would be £35.00 per head and each SACRE could fund four people. This conference would bring teachers together with new SACRE members. It was a holistic approach with teacher input.

Jan Lever offered to put bid in for £4000 to Westhill Award Application and also prepare an action plan together for next year.

The Members unanimously agreed that we could commit to four places for the conference.

The Chairman was delighted that there was a high level of commitment from everyone.

Karen Butler went through the key points from the action plan.

A half day training course for SACRE Members would be useful to disseminate information in faith communities. Anne Andrews would run the training for the host communities.

Liz Jenkins requested that the training should include the different needs of secondary schools in terms of visits to places of worship and not focus solely on the needs of primary colleagues.

Activity to read and discuss the recommendations from the latest reports.

To frame a response to NASACRE.

See attached Barbara Meany’s note of meeting and activity that took place at the conference and was repeated at the meeting.

ACTION: Anne Andrews to collate all responses from the activity and then circulate to Members for approval before sending to NASACRE.

To find out why the cost of that came out of this year’s budget and not from the money saved for the purpose.

Anne Andrews informed Members that thirteen schools had attended which was a great turnout and excellent feedback was given.

The Chairman updated Members on the response received from the WAM Get Involved team. They had suggested requesting assistance from Rotary or Lions. It would also be worth contacting Churches Together.

ACTION: The Chairman to contact Rotary and Lions groups.

Action: to plan next term’s training needs.

The training at the Mosque was very successful, very helpful and everybody who attended, thoroughly enjoyed.

It was noted that general messages to schools were not working well and that personal contact worked much better.

ACTION: Clive Haines to ask Elaine Norstrom to collect RE contact at each school.

ACTION: Clerk to add to next meeting Agenda.

An update note provided for Ofsted attached for information.

Members to note the next meeting date is 8 November 2016.

Members noted that the next meeting was on 8 November 2016.

AOB

Karen Butler informed Members of an excellent book by the Bible Society which was produced as a tribute for the Queens 90^th birthday.