2015 Committee Lunch

By admin, 30 March, 2022
Date of Meeting

    2015 Committee Lunch

    Date: Wednesday 4th week, Hilary 2015 (2015-02-11)

    Attendance


    Present: Duncan Shepherd (President), Aisha Simon (Vice-President (Administrative)), Richard May (Secretary), John Clark-Maxwell (Treasurer), Richard Ware (Lindsay), Thomas Posa (Dr. WHO), Amy Ford (Dr. WHO), Michael Wrathall (Foody), Ryan Diamond (Academic Affairs and Careers Officer), Alice Farrell (Access and Admissions Officer), Xavier Greenwood (Access and Admissions Officer), Emily Barradell (Affiliations Officer), Emily Webb (Charities and RAG Officer), Florence Hardy (Design & Maintenance Officer), Jack Wheatley (Design & Maintenance Officer), Molly Rogers (Student Disabilities Officer), Matthew Lynch (Entz Officer), Calum Jacobs (Environment & Ethics Officer), Daisy Pearson (Environment & Ethics Officer), Anne Williamson (Ethnic Minorities Officer), Cameron Kigonya (Ethnic Minorities Officer), Samuel Gibb (LGBTQ Officer), Alex McKenzie (Website & Computing Officer), Charlotte Suttle (Women's Officer), Kathryn Pritchard (Women's Officer)

    Absent with apologies: Gaetano Iannetta (Foody), Jess Poole (Academic Affairs and Careers Officer), Daisy Porter (Student Disabilities Officer), Benjamin Atueyi (Entz Officer), Colm Britchfield (John de Balliol), Indigo Wilde (LGBTQ Officer)

    Absent without explanation: James Kavanagh (Affiliations Officer), George Badger (Charities and RAG Officer), Oliver Johnson-Munday (John de Balliol)

    Agenda


    Matters Arising

    1. Voter Registration [Aisha Simon]

    Main Agenda

    1. Balliol Stash [Duncan Shepherd]
    2. Balliol Access Video [Alice Farrell]
    3. Pigeon Holes [Richard May]

    AOB

    Minutes


    Matters Arising

    1. We passed £15 for Aisha to host a tea encouraging people to register to vote.

    Main Agenda

    1. Duncan has suggested to College that they should produce their own stash - an official Balliol line. The Development Office are very interested in the idea, and wanted more information regarding the sorts of things people might be interested in. Duncan ran through a long list of possible items (including ties, jumpers, socks, scarves, cufflinks, placemats, pens, brooches and much more), and we briefly discussed which might be worth investigating further.
    2. Alice and Xavier Greenwood had a meeting with College in which Kate Kettle asked about the possibility of doing a Balliol Access video, centred on the idea of contrast (similar to the St Anne’s access video produced recently). Alice asked if people had any thoughts or feedback, and the Committee was supportive of the idea.
    3. Richard listed the various pigeon holes in the JCR Office, and requested that officers check them. It should perhaps be made clearer in future (possibly in handover packs) which positions have pigeon holes there.

    AOB

    • Freshers’ page: A pinned post of guidelines has been produced. Aisha felt that it was important we be careful about how we move forward with this – in that the primary reason for the issues may be a sense that they can’t converse freely in the bar or elsewhere. Molly said that she’d investigated potential motivations that might be behind this, and said that people felt to some degree that the JCR Committee were being offended on behalf of others - we should be clearer that this is not the case.

    The meeting ended.