Member Meeting Report
4 February 2015
Held at Energus, Workington, Cumbria
PRESENTATIONS – download presentations from meeting date Event Diary entry on BECBC website
• Nuclear Salary Survey and Retaining Staff – Emma-Jayne Gooch, NuExec Consulting
• Sellafield Update – Stuart Wilson, Sellafield
• Technical Innovation: R&D Tax Relief – Jeanette Brown and Kathryn Brown, Dodd & Co
Accountants
• Sellafield Supply Chain – The Big Picture: do we care? – John Wilson, Baines Wilson
• Member Presentation: Gen2 – Mike Smith
• Fit for Nuclear Funding Opportunities - Stuart Harrison, NAMRC
• SME Update
NEW MEMBERS (since 1 December 2014):
- Curtins Consulting Ltd
- Demtech Nucaear Services Ltd
- Entilent Media
- Kier Infrastructure & Overseas Ltd
- Mayflower Engineering Ltd
- Nuclear AMRC (University of Sheffield)
- Oaktree Accountancy
- Outperform UK Ltd
- Parsons Brinckerhoff Ltd
- PCDA Consulting Limited
- Symetri
- Stephenson Halliday Ltd
Thomas Graham & Sons Ltd
- Thomas Graham & Sons Ltd
BECBC SECTOR GROUPS – see BECBC website Events page
- Business Support Group: 4 Feb 2015 at Oily’s, near Workington
- Construction, Manufacturing and Nuclear New Build: 10 February 2015 at UClan, Samuel
Lindow Building, Westlakes Science andTechnology Park, Whitehaven
- Socio Economic: 20 February 2015 venue tbc
BECBC BOARD NEWS – Contact Hazel at: [email protected]
• SPECIAL RESOLUTION RESULT: FOR the changes to the Articles of Association 2015
• Member Fees – now OVERDUE (membership certificates will be issued on payment in 2015)
• n-eboc15 – Sponsorship Packages now available - for further information please contact Hazel
• BECBC Member Meeting Banner Slots
Register interest with Hazel to display your banner at a future BECBC Member Meetings
• Visit the revamped BECBC website at: www.becbusinesscluster.co.uk for all the latest
events, news, vacancies and opportunities
• Design and Build UK Magazine
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• BECBC Board Election
No new nominations received, so just Sean Balmer will stand for re-election.
• Dates for your diary:
Next Member Meeting : Wed 4 Mar 2015
2015 Member Meetings: 25 Mar (AGM) 6 May 3 Jun 1 Jul 5 Aug 2 Sept 7 Oct 4 Nov 2 Dec
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BECBC Member Meeting Report for 4 February 2015
ATTENDEES for Member Meeting (146 present)
Board and Management Committee: Sean Balmer (Lily & Co) - BECBC Chair, Alison Johnston (Dodd & Co),
David Henderson (Shepley Engineers), Emma-Jayne Gooch (NuExec Consulting), Ivan Baldwin (Nuvia), Liz
Bowe (PacTEC and SEB Management), Tim Ashworth (Nukem), Tom Scaife (Baines Wilson), Hazel Duhy
(BECBC Admin Manager).
Members: Chris Clouter (AB Ports – Barrow), Mike Johnson (A J Johnson), David Fuller (AECOM), Les
Hanley (Age UK), Iain King (amec foster wheeler), Phil Monks and Andrew Lowther(Ansaldo NES),
Steve Rhodes (Arup), Richard Kemp (Assystem), S Choraffa (Balfour Beatty), Zoe Crossan, Alan and K
Rogers (BEC), Tony Martin (Bilfinger), Tracy Stainton and M Walby (Burnetts), Stephen Shepherd
(Camerton Consultants), Michael McLoughlin, M Bell and S Dawson (Cavendish Nuclear), J Winder
(Centrica), Tom Little (CN Group), Clare Graham (CueDoc), Andrew Bradley (Darchem Engineering), G
Jackson and K Herd (David Allen), Jeanette Brown and Kathryn Brown (Dodd & Co), Claire Dunn and
Tracey Little (EnergySolutions), Graham Latus (Enterprise Answers), Colin Nahor (ERIKS), P Staveley
(Fort Vale Nuclear), Martin Lewis (Forth Engineering), David Jones (Fusion Go), Mel Hanley and Mike
Smith (GenII), Stephen Kirkbride and David O’Donnell (Gibbons Accs), Taylor-Jane Fox (Graham Eng),
Susie and Jonathan Steven (Groundwater and Geothermal), Simon Nicholson (GSE Systems), Peter
Caunce (Hudson-Swan), Tony Wilson (Indelible Data), Nick Stone (IJS Consultants), John Grainger
(Invest in Cumbria), Ewan Turnbull, M Mills and Kerry Scott (James Walker), D Brown (John Graham
Eng), Derek Jenkinson (Jenkinson Partnership), D Boxall and M McHugh (K Home Int), Sharon Kennedy
and Ian Topping (KBC), Peter Adamson (Kier), Helen Walker (Knowles), Joanne Chambers (Lakeland
Capabilities), Nicky and John Barany (Learning Planet), Sue Fitzpatrick and James (Liberty Wear),
Eddie Blackmore (Livingstone Surface Treatment), Brian Harrison (Mace), Roy Allen (Mayflower
Engineering), Mel Mackay (Mercury Stone), Martin Howell (MHaD), Diana and Michael Lishman (Michael
Lishman Photographer), Margaret Barrow (mbi), Paul Stewart and Jim Partridge (Millom Network
Centre), Graeme McKenzie-Netherwood (MITIE), Richard Postlethwaite (Morson Projects), E Kerr and S
Dorgan (N G Bailey), Stuart Harrison and Dave Prescott (NAMRC), Stuart Burkes (NIS), Adrian DavisJohnston and Simon Walker (NNL), Vaughn Edelman (NUKEM), Chris Macleod (Oaktree Accountancy),
Nick Taylor and Vicorita Hornby (Outperform), Sian Beatty (Oxand), M Platt (Portakabin), Ian Park (Park
Gate), Yasmin McCourt (PTC), Brian Lightowler (Quality Guild), Ann Horton (RLB), Sara Lamb (RPS),
Graham McAvoy (Safety Critical), Stuart Wilson (Sellafield), Evan Wright (Silver Stream and BEC), Brian
Watson (Sir Robert McAlpine), Sally Seed (Stoneleigh Communications), Kevin Doherty (Symerics), A
McManus (Tenet Consultants), Phil Holden (Thomas Consulting), Garry Smith (Thomas Graham), Janet
Addison and Dianne Richardson (UClan), Dick Monaghan (Ultra Electronics), Andy Sullivan and John
Berry (Uni of Cumbria), A Knott (Uni of Manchester), Ray Bradbury (Vinci), Claire and Rebecca
(Westlakes Recruit), Richard Arnott and John Leggett(WYG) + others that did not sign-in
Visitors and Guests: Michael Walby (???), Bill Roberts, Jacob Smith (Tech 4 Office), Visky and Phil
Jefferson (Metalwork Solutions), Graeme Jamieson and Phil Makinson (Peterson), Brian Nicholson and
Steve Blunt (GAP Group), Luke Tattersall and Paul Bailey (Tatterasll Bailey), Janet Rix and Stephen Rix
(SOS/Outperform consortium), R Cooper (Cumbria Car Care), A Quine (FFP Media), Roy Hughes
(Scientific Arts), Emily Bond and Alan Houghton (Eden District Council), Claire Brennan, Hollie Hartley
and Mark Roketzky (Teem Recruitment), Mike West (Eco-tech Systems), Michael Bell (The HR Dept).
APOLOGIES
Board and Management Committee: Barry Watkinson (Morgan Sindall) - BECBC Vice-Chair.
Members and Guests: Jane Clingan (David Allen), Shaun Lees (Interserve), Andy Crowder (Morgan
Sindall), Alistair Laird (PTC), Liz Hearnden (NSAN), Tracey Errington (Market Sense), Kathryn Booth
(NuGen), Kurt Canfield (Safety Critical), Penny Lees (Total PR), Will McAllister (Will McAlister
Photography), Peter Gregory (Mirion Tech), Maxien Riley (EnergySolutions), John Porter (Porter Brown
Sols), Neil Wakeman (NW Struct Consultants), Sarah Purdham (Priam Uno), Chris Bluff (Tata Steel),
Peter Frost Penningtona dn Craig Lowery (Pennington Group).
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