Minutes of the CUC Council meeting 25/4/06.

Present: Richard Smith (acting convenor), Emma Riseborough (council elected
rep),
Giles Parkinson (Fisher House rep), Gordon Lawrence, Will Carroll
(treasurer), Ruth Wallace (Fusion rep), Emma Hancox (secretary).

Apologies: Steven Cooper (CCMS), Simon Perry (senior treasurer).

   1) Opened in prayer.
   2) Minutes of last meeting approved.
   3) Matters arising.
         - Nomination and election of new convenor. Will Carroll is willing
           to be convenor if someone can take over as treasurer. Someone
           needs to be found. Electing the new convenor will have to wait
           until the next meeting as enough council members need to be
           present to vote.
         - Football in May week. Rounders will be held at Churchill College
           on Tuesday 20th June, 3pm organised by Chris Hack.
         - Punt race will be Friday 16th June, 1pm for lunch, 2pm start.
           Will Carroll will make posters.
         - No term card will be made this term due to exams, instead an
           email of all events will be sent. There will be a term card in
           the next two terms.
         - Formal Hall at Jesus College, Thursday 4th May.
         - Ecumenical bar quiz, Thursday 11th May, Fisher House library,
           bring own drinks, soft drinks will be provided. Rounds of ten
           questions will be prepared by different people; Gordon Lawrence-
           picture round and science round, Giles Parkinson- history round,
           Richard Smith- music round and Emma Riseborough- Bible round.
           CUC will take some of the money from the quiz; the rest will be
           donated to Jimmy's night shelter. Gordon will use the old
           template to make a new poster which we will distribute jointly.
         - Booking stall at the Freshers' Fair. Richard Smith needs to look
           at the CUSU website to see when stalls are being made available.
           This job may be delegated to someone else at a later date.
         - Methsoc Chapel walk, Monday 19th June all day. Can be advertised
           to the CUC list. Methsoc members are raising money for Wesley
           Church; CUC members can raise money for other causes if they
           wish.
         - Prayer service will be arranged for Michelmas term. The room in
           Portugal Place could be used for drop in prayer. Perhaps it
           would be better to arrange corporate prayer. This can be
           discussed at the next meeting.
         - Discussion groups won't happen this term but will continue in
           the next two terms. A change of focus is needed, perhaps looking
           at issues rather than denominations. We could organise debates
           between two people with different beliefs. As we will need two
           people for each discussion group, we could organise four groups
           over eight weeks. We could get Maggie Dawn (chaplain at
           Robinson) to speak. Will Carroll agreed to organise this over
           the summer holiday if he is given a list of contacts.


   4) AOB
         - Deans and Chaplains' meeting is 24th May, St Catherine's
           College. It would be good to go, so we can explain what CUC is
           and see how they can use us to build a link with students.
         - Orthodox society. Richard Smith will attempt to find out if they
           are still running, who they are and what they do. It would be
           good to ask if they want to be involved in the Unity service.
         - Fusion and Methsoc have not paid subs for 2005/6. Subs for
           Fusion will be dropped for last year as we had no Fusion rep.
         - CUC will advertise the Big Dress. Jenny Auton needs to be
           contacted to find out the final dates.
         - Next CUC meeting will be Saturday 13th May, 2pm in Clare
           College, room to be confirmed.

     5) Closed with the Grace.