{"id":16010,"date":"2017-07-03T16:13:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16010"},"modified":"2017-07-03T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:13:14","slug":"ihbc-congratulates-nw-branch-on-hosting-manchesters-spectacular-2017-annual-school-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16010","title":{"rendered":"IHBC congratulates NW Branch on hosting Manchester\u2019s spectacular 2017 Annual School, and more\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AS2017_FNJuly2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16014\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/AS2017_FNJuly2017.jpg\" alt=\"Annual Dinner 2017 F Newton July 2017\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>On behalf of IHBC members and colleagues, Chair James Caird thanked the institute\u2019s North West Branch, its School committee and volunteers, for an excellent 2017 Annual School in Manchester, on 22-24 June, saying also that he looks forward to another CPD triumph at our next School in Belfast in June 2018!<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p>James Caird said: \u2018I am delighted to be able to thank and congratulate our North West Branch for hosting and leading on such a terrific Annual School. \u00a0The Day School had an excellent and challenging theme while the speakers were consistently of the highest quality.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018To add to that excellence, the venues \u2013 including Manchester\u2019s un-rivalled Town Hall, as well as the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) venue \u2013 enriched the whole learning experience with their special relevance to the School\u2019s theme.\u00a0 The Thursday and Saturday tours also offered unique and invaluable opportunities to interrogate our School theme of infrastructure even further.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>IHBC National Office lead on the management of the event, Operations Director Fiona Newton, said: \u2018We all knew the \u2018Infrastructure\u2019 theme was going to be challenging, but our busy North West Branch was more than up to the task, not least as it benefits from direct access to some of the UK\u2019s most significant historic \u2013 and future &#8211; infrastructure.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The speakers and tour leaders were universally applauded as well, altogether confirming MOSI and the Manchester regions as perfect venues, subjects and leads for such a topical conference.\u00a0 Well done to the North West!\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/manchester2017.ihbc.org.uk\/programme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find out more<\/a> about the School, and download the programme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of IHBC members and colleagues, Chair James Caird thanked the institute\u2019s North West Branch, its School committee and volunteers, for an excellent 2017 Annual School in Manchester, on 22-24 June, saying also that he looks forward to another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16010\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16015,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions\/16015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}