About AOCM

Welcome to AOCM’s website. We hope you find it useful. If you don’t - or if there are things we can add… don’t suffer in silence, let us know …..  you can send an email using our contact form.
 AOCM’s primary role is to inform and educate members on issues of concern and interest. AOCM is not a Union, but AOCM […]

AOCM Conferences - 2009 to 2010

Conferences for College and Course representatives for the forthcoming year are as follows:
Saturday 17th October 2009 - Cranmer Hall, Durham
Saturday 16th January 2010 - Trinity, Bristol
Saturday 17th April 2010 - Oxford, precise venue tba 
If your training institution has a rep, please feed your comments and ideas to them. We’re particularly interested to hear about the impact […]

AOCM Elections - to be by EBallot for the first time… form attached

Arrangements for Nominations and Elections for Officers’ Posts

Posts to be elected:              Chair, Secretary and Treasurer – each to serve for one year from Lent 2010 to Lent 2011.
 Nominations received to date:    Chair     Dominic Jones – St John’s, Nottingham, 
                                                                       Bruce Clifford – Trinity, Bristol
                                                        Secretary – None
                                                        Treasurer – None
 
Timetable:                              Nominations – to be notified to Catherine Shelley, AOCM secretary
by email […]

AOCM Member Sites

We are launching a new initiative, enabling each training institution represented by AOCM to have their own website. The vision is to enable any prospective ordinand or church member to find out a little about each course or college directly from those with first-hand experience.
Each site will contain personal testimony from students commenting on the […]

Conference Report November 1998

News from the AOCM Conference at Oak Hill Theological College, 7-8 November 1998

Conference Report, February 1999

News from an Excellent Conference at Trinity.

Latest updates… 8th November 2009

New information has been added to existing sections as follows:
News of title posts…
Dyslexia screening and support - under Disability
Getting engaged - and divorce - under Changes of Circumstances
Addresses for new courses are also posted….
 

Lindisfarne Training Partnership

New course - started on 1st September 2009 - under Director Cathy Rowlings
Contact: Lindisfarne Training Partnership, c/o Church House, St John’s Terrace, North Shields, NE29 6HS
Tel: 0191 270 4144
Email: enquiries@lindisfarnetp.org

Minutes of meeting of 16th January 2010 now available

Minutes of the AOCM Conference held at Trinity College, Bristol
on Saturday 16th January 2010
 
1)      Introductions: from George Kovours, Principal of Trinity College during morning prayers, led by Bruce Clifford (Trinity).
 
2)      Attendance: Rob Parker McGee (Chair), Patrick Eggleston (Treasurer), Catherine Shelley (Secretary), Bruce Clifford (Trinity), Celia Cook (ERMC), Nick Munday (Cuddesdon), Fiona Gibson […]

Money Matters 2009

MONEY MATTERS - Dr Mark Hodge (Ministry Division Grants) –                 Tel: 020 7898 1396 Email: mark.hodge@c-of-e.org.uk & Catherine Shelley, AOCM Secretary
AOCM covers finances from pre-selection to curacy and takes up issues of funding and resources on behalf of ordinands set against wider changes in student finance. Readers are from a diversity of financial positions. Some […]