Our venue will be the Printworks Kitchen and Bar at the Printworks campus of Leeds City College, located on Hunslet Road about a mile south of the city centre. Dinner is planned to start promptly at 6 pm.
The AGM summarizes Central Yorkshire's contribution to the work of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2024/5 and suggests arrangements for the next year. The Committee has sixteen members including the three Officers. Sadly, one Officer is bound to leave the Committee now that he (Chris Mason) has served two full terms as Treasurer. Five of our “Ordinary” members complete their first term of office and are eligible to stand for re-election if they so wish. Precedents makes us expect at least one vacant Committee position, so expressions of interest in standing for Ordinary membership and/or appointment as Treasurer will be very welcome. Richard Whewell will supply further details (and keep the Section Secretary informed) if you ask him when you book your place for the 20th March event. It is not essential that you attend the AGM in order to join the Committee, though any unfilled Committee places will be made available to eligible RSC Members during the AGM.
After dinner and our AGM we shall have the benefit of a talk entitled "How clean is your home? Understanding the sources and impacts of indoor air pollution" by Professor Jacqui Hamilton from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and the University of York. Exposure to poor air quality is the top environmental risk factor for early deaths globally, with some three million premature deaths each year. The air pollutant by far most damaging to health is particulate matter, as aerosols. Carbon-based material often dominates samples, from elemental carbon and diverse organic carbon molecules. These aerosols can arise from natural sources (plant emissions, forest fires, sea surface) and from global human activity (diesel exhaust, industry, cooking, biomass burning). While there has been a lot of focus in recent decades on outdoor air quality, the emissions and chemistry taking place in indoor environments have had much less attention. On average, people spend around 90% of their time indoors and the group's research also focuses on understanding poor indoor air quality and how it might affect human health.
An early booking would be very helpful, to give us a better idea of numbers and plan accordingly. Contact Richard Whewell to make your booking, and do so by Monday 10th March 2025. Please include details of any dietary or other special needs and tell me about any interest in Committee membership. Do you want to bring a guest? Would you like a car parking space? Would you like directions on how to get there? Between booking and attending you will still have menu choices with which to deal. We need a contribution of £10 per person towards the cost of the meal, and I’ll tell you how to pay your contribution while I’m dealing with the other details of your evening.
On behalf of the Committee, I look forward to us welcoming you at the Printworks in March!
Richard Whewell
rjwhewell@gmail.com
0113 2755604 (call guardian installed)
The AGM summarizes Central Yorkshire's contribution to the work of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2024/5 and suggests arrangements for the next year. The Committee has sixteen members including the three Officers. Sadly, one Officer is bound to leave the Committee now that he (Chris Mason) has served two full terms as Treasurer. Five of our “Ordinary” members complete their first term of office and are eligible to stand for re-election if they so wish. Precedents makes us expect at least one vacant Committee position, so expressions of interest in standing for Ordinary membership and/or appointment as Treasurer will be very welcome. Richard Whewell will supply further details (and keep the Section Secretary informed) if you ask him when you book your place for the 20th March event. It is not essential that you attend the AGM in order to join the Committee, though any unfilled Committee places will be made available to eligible RSC Members during the AGM.
After dinner and our AGM we shall have the benefit of a talk entitled "How clean is your home? Understanding the sources and impacts of indoor air pollution" by Professor Jacqui Hamilton from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) and the University of York. Exposure to poor air quality is the top environmental risk factor for early deaths globally, with some three million premature deaths each year. The air pollutant by far most damaging to health is particulate matter, as aerosols. Carbon-based material often dominates samples, from elemental carbon and diverse organic carbon molecules. These aerosols can arise from natural sources (plant emissions, forest fires, sea surface) and from global human activity (diesel exhaust, industry, cooking, biomass burning). While there has been a lot of focus in recent decades on outdoor air quality, the emissions and chemistry taking place in indoor environments have had much less attention. On average, people spend around 90% of their time indoors and the group's research also focuses on understanding poor indoor air quality and how it might affect human health.
An early booking would be very helpful, to give us a better idea of numbers and plan accordingly. Contact Richard Whewell to make your booking, and do so by Monday 10th March 2025. Please include details of any dietary or other special needs and tell me about any interest in Committee membership. Do you want to bring a guest? Would you like a car parking space? Would you like directions on how to get there? Between booking and attending you will still have menu choices with which to deal. We need a contribution of £10 per person towards the cost of the meal, and I’ll tell you how to pay your contribution while I’m dealing with the other details of your evening.
On behalf of the Committee, I look forward to us welcoming you at the Printworks in March!
Richard Whewell
rjwhewell@gmail.com
0113 2755604 (call guardian installed)
