Community Committee agenda March 2025

Last updated on 4 Sep 2025

Date

Monday 10 March 2025

Time

10am to 1pm (3 hours)

Attendees

Co-Chairs:

Andrew George (AG) and Jan Speechley

Community Committee Members:

Alisha Aman (AA), Anne-Laure Donskoy (A-LD), Eleni Chambers (EC), Louise Vale (LV), Margaret Cheng (MC), Sandra Duggan (SD), Stephanie Ellis (SE),

HRA Staff:

Becky Purvis (BP), ​Ben Solley (BS), Kat Evans (KE) Louise Braley (LB), Rachel Hebb (RH), Teagan Allen (TA) Tamsin Destrube (TD), Steve Tebbutt (TB), Matt Balding (MB)

HRA Guest Presenters:

Matt Balding (MB) joining at 11:00 am (Paper 2a – 2024-25 Q3 Finance Report), Steve Tebbutt (ST) joining at 11:30 am (Paper 3 – Vexatious complaints policy and Paper 5 – Working with vulnerable people (safeguarding) policy)

Apologies:

Eve Hart (EH), Jonathan Fennelly-Barnwell (JF-B), Paul Mills (PM), Christine Vial (CV), Sarah-Jayne Ambler (S-JA), Simon Kolstoe (SK)

Agenda

Item 1

Welcome and apologies

For approval: Paper B - 08 November meeting minutes

Verbal updates:

  • ​Achievements: 20 November HRA Board and Seminar
  • ​Update on payments to HRA Community
  • Update on handling of high profile research studies
  • ​Plans for recruitment to Community Committee in 2025, including request for members to join recruitment working group
  • ​See Paper C - For information - Community Committee member recruitment paper
  • ​Upcoming changes to Committee co-chairs

Item led by: Andrew George (AG)

Time: 10:00am to 10:20am

Duration: 20 minutes

Item 2

Description: Update on progress developing the next HRA strategy and opportunity to comment on emerging content

For review and advice: Paper 1a and paper 1b – HRA Strategy – supporting slides

Item led by: Becky Purvis

Time: 10:20am to 10:50am

Duration: 30 minutes

Break

Time: 10:50am to 11:00am

Duration: 10 minutes

Item 3

Description: Optional session HRA Board strategic supporting papers

For review and advice: Paper 2a – 2024-25 Q3 Finance Report

Item led by: Matt Balding

Time: 11:00am to 11:20am

Duration: 20 minutes

Break

Time: 10:20am to 11:30am

Duration: 10 minutes

Item 4

Description: Optional session – Vexatious complaints policy

For review and advice: Paper 3 – Vexatious complaints policy

Item led by: Stephen Tebbutt

Time: 11:30am to 11:50am

Duration: 20 minutes

Break

Time: 10:50am to 12:00pm

Duration: 10 minutes

Item 5

Description: Community Committee effectiveness survey report 2024

For review and advice: Paper 4 - Community Committee effectiveness survey report 2024

Item led by: Teagan Allen

Time: 12:00pm to 12:30pm

Duration: 30 minutes

Item 6

Description: Working with vulnerable people (safeguarding) policy

​For review and advice: Paper 5 – Working with vulnerable people (safeguarding) policy

Item led by: Stephen Tebbutt

Time: 12:30pm – 12:55pm

Duration: 25 minutes

Item 7

Description: Any other business (AOB) including any reflections on the effectiveness of this meeting

Item led by: All

Time: 12:55pm to 13:00pm

Duration: 5 minutes

Next meeting: Friday 12 May 2025 10am to 1pm (3 hours)

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