From May 17th 2025 09:00 until Mar 31st 2025 16:00

At Birmingham Conference and Events Centre (BCEC), Hill Street, Birmingham B5 4EW
Local Group Birmingham IA

Contact: maggie.butler@iasupport.org

We’re delighted to announce that this year’s Birmingham IA’s Information Day will be held on 17th May 2025.

Following last year’s successful event at a first class venue, we are pleased to offer another premier setting, the Birmingham Conference and Events Centre (the BCEC), near to New Street Station https://thebcec.co.uk/.

The Suppliers’ Exhibition will open at 9:00am and Presentations will start at 10:00am. We have a fantastic line-up of expert health professional speakers, complimentary beverages and refreshments during breaks, and a high-quality hot and cold buffet lunch at the Holiday Inn Lobby restaurant, which is located on the same site as the BCEC.

This year, to help enable us to do this, we are requesting a £10.00 payment, per delegate, to support the charity and cover lunch costs.

 

Here is the Birmingham IA’s Annual Information & Business Meeting Programme in full:

9:00am – 10:00am

Product Supply Exhibition in the Imagine Room Coffee and Tea in the Rookeries Room foyer

10:00am – 10:05am

Rookeries Room: Chairman’s Welcome & Housekeeping

10:05am – 10:15am

Fittleworth, Event Main Sponsor

10:15am – 10:45am

Guest speaker Sophie Turigel, BSc Applied and Human Biology PG Dip Dietetics, MSc Transdisciplinary Practice Diet and Nutrition for Ostomists

10:45am – 11:30am

Guest speaker Samantha (Wilkinson) Lee, BSc (Hons) MSc, GMBPsS Working with a Disability / Chronic Illness

11:30am – 12:00pm

Coffee Break and Product Exhibition

12:00pm – 12:30pm

Guest speaker Scott Clifford, Peer and Professional Support for ostomists and internal pouch patients

12:30pm – 1:00pm

Guest speaker Uchu Meade, MPharm, MRPharmS, PgDip CPP, PG Cert NM, IPresc. Consultant Pharmacist, Intestinal Rehabilitation Medicine Matters

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Hot and cold buffet lunch in the Holiday Inn Lobby Restaurant & Product Exhibition.

2:00pm – 2:10pm

Raffle

2:10pm – 3:00pm

Guest speaker Melissa Cunha, President of Birmingham IA PhD, FRCS Consultant Colorectal Surgeon Queen Elizabeth Hospital:

The importance of Hydration for ostomists and internal pouch patients, followed by Q and A

3:00pm – 3:45pm

Birmingham IA AGM and Business Meeting

3:45pm – 4:00pm

Tea & coffee – close of meeting

 

Click this link:   A4-IA-Bham-Flyer-25.pdf   to download Birmingham IA’s Annual Information Day 2025 flyer.

Please let Maggie Butler know, as soon as possible, if you’d like to come, but by 24th April at the latest!

We hope that you will be able to join us for what promises to be a great day!