A huge thank you to all members who attended our ARCFEST in Runcorn on 10th December, either in-person or online.

181 people attended in total with thirty-nine members attending in person and forty-six representatives of member organisations participating online. We are grateful to member representatives for not only attending this special ARCFEST, but our previous ARCFEST events around the region, forums, bespoke consultations and contributing to wards our online padlets, which were all designed to capture and consider feedback for the draft outline bid for ARC 2, from across the collaboration. We have already received all online comments and survey results from the December ARCFEST in Runcorn. The initial draft outline document can be read here. Videos from the event are on our YouTube channel.

Our next step is to start the actual writing of the formal bid while considering the feedback presented via the channels above. This will continue over the Christmas period and into the New Year as we remain on target to submit the bid to the NIHR by the deadline of 29th January 2025.
We will be in touch with further information on the progress of the bid writing in the January Member Script and via other channels.