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2023 BLMA AGM & Conference Programme

Friday 3rd November

19:00
Vespers
Venue TBC

19:30
Evening Meal and Fellowship (Additional charge)
Venue: The Florist Restaurant

Saturday 4th November

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Registration

09:00 - 09:50
AGM of BLMA
All members welcome

10:00 - 10:20
Opening Prayers / Welcome & Introductions
Hamilton Grantham - BLMA Chair
Paula Mitchell - BLMA Vice Chair

10:20 - 10:30
100 years of answering the call of Our Lady
Denise McLaughlan - Liverpool Diocese

10:30 - 10:50
Tea / Coffee

10:50- 11:50
2023 Pilgrimage Feedback and themes from the Pilgrimage Forms
Jude Raper -
David Knight -


11:50 - 12:10
BLMA: Working Together
TBC -

12:10 -13:10
Lunch

13:10 - 13:40
*Building and maintaining sustainable Pilgrimage Clinical Teams:
The role of Allied Health Professional, Pharmacists, trainees and retired*
Scott Johnston - St Andrew's & Edinburgh Diocese / BLMA Council
Kathryn Hewitt -

13:40 - 14:40
Humanitarian Work & Pilgrimage
Professor Tony Redmond

14:40 - 15:00
Tea/Coffee

15:00 - 16:00
Answering the call of Our Lady as a Clinical Team
Barbara Davies -

16:00 - 16:30
Kindness & Compassion in Clinical Practice
Monica Bald - St Andrew's & Edinburgh / BLMA Council

17:00
VIGIL MASS
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

19:30
Conference Dinner
Novotel Hotel Liverpool Paddington Village

Sunday 6th November

08:45 - 09:15
BLMA Council Meeting
BLMA Council Members Only

09:15 - 09:30
Tea/Coffee

09:30
Morning Prayers

09:40 - 10:50
Workshop: Mindfullness, Prayer & the still small voice
Steve Noone -
Liz Lord -

10:50 - 11:10
Tea/Coffee

11:10 -11:30
Panel Discussion
TBC

11:30 - 12:15
Open discussion and messages to bring to the Director's Conference
Hamilton Grantham - BLMA Chair
Paula Mitchell - BLMA Vice Chair
Kim O'Connor -

12:15 - 12:30
Discussion & Closing Prayer
(Conference Close 12:30)