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Part I: Your NCSC Activities

We have been looking into supporting students in UK - see below

We have our first UK sports chiro symposium for many many years. It'll be in September. We are finalising speakers over coming days and then would love if FICS can help promote.

I met Christine Foss in Oxford and had a nice meal with her and Mika before the FICS lower limb seminar. Looks like it went well.

Does your NCSC have student members?
No. BUT we were recently given the green light by the Royal College of Chiropractors to look into offering student membership to the Sports Faculty for the first time. We had a meeting with Bronwyn (Chair of FICS student commission) to discuss how FICS are supporting UK students via the FICS student clubs. We concluded that FICS are going a great job and there is no need for us to get involved for the time being. We're happy that FICS continue to support our UK students. I reported this back to Bron and Trish via email recently.

We are looking into getting some of our own committee members on the speaker list for these UK student groups. That way we can introduce the merits of RCC Sports Faculty membership once they graduate. (It might be nice for FICS to proactively suggest this to other NCSCs. So individual NCSCs have an input into the speaker list for their students?)

I mentioned to Trish and Bron how I understand some universities pay their FICS student club membership fee. But I also hear there may have been a situation recently where one university would not pay, and it was up to the students to find the cash themselves. It seems a shame that a proactive group of students are under pressure to find FICS fees themselves. Can FICS invest in the student groups (ie not charge them) in the knowledge that they will get return on their investment when the student graduates a year or two later and becomes a fee paying member of FICS?

In the future, we may look to open discussions with FICS about how we can co-manage the mentorship programme within the UK. However, this is not in the immediate future. We have mentioned this to Trish and Bron.

Overall, we see that FICS are doing a great job supporting UK students so thank you to the Student Commission and those involved.

Part II: Areas where FICS and your NCSC could collaborate

We have put the below info out to UK chiros but it's the same time as the Commonwealth Games so many volunteers are busy. Feel free to advertise within FICS. Please get in touch with chiropractor Iain (iaincrombie@hotmail.co.uk) who can put you in touch with organiser directly

Event:
European Touch Rugby Championships, Nottingham UK. Chiros have worked this event in 2019 and it was a great opportunity to work in a new sport and be part of an MDT. Tuesday, August 2nd (opening ceremonies and some matches) through to finals on Saturday the 6th. All meals and accommodation is covered where needed + kit and equipment provided. They can do a rota so that you are not covering entire week.

Our symposium in September. We will be in touch once finalised. Thanks