General Information
CONFERENCE PARK
All accommodation is here and
room key allocation
is at the Rootes Social Building.
Check-In is at any time after 3.00 pm. on Saturday.
Your name badge must be collected from the
URC Reception Desk in this area and must be worn at all times.
Rooms must be vacated by 09.30am on the day of departure.
On Tuesday morning luggage may not be left
in your room after 9.30am, but may be left at the Left Luggage in the Rootes
Social Building until you are ready to depart.
THE ROOTES SOCIAL BUILDING
The building is open 7.00am to 11.00pm. It is
locked overnight, but security is on duty at all times in case of emergency
dial 22222 from any internal telephone.
ARTS CENTRE
THE URC INFORMATION DESK is situated
in the Foyer. They will deal with your queries, replace missing papers and
provide you with local information. They will act as the primary source for
giving and receiving messages. Tel: 02476 523732
Please contact the Stewards if you require
email facilities, headphones for the hearing system or assistance with
mobility needs
THE URC GENERAL OFFICE is situated in the National Grid Room upstairs
in the Arts Centre. Enquiries relating to the business sessions or for the
platform party should be made here. If you have stamps for the CWM Stamp
Bureau, they should be brought here.
Telephone - 02476
572983/4
Fax
- 02476 572985
Email -
general.assembly@urc.org.uk
"REFORM" AND THE PRESS OFFICE are in the Butterworth Hall Band
Room:
Telephone - 02476 523885
Email -
reform@urc.org.uk
BOOKSTALL AND DISPLAYS will be found in the Arts Centre Gallery. The
bookstall will be open:
Saturday 1.30pm - 8.00pm
Sunday 8.30am - 8.30pm
Monday 8.30am - 7.00pm
Tuesday 8.30am - 10.30am
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AND SITTING-OUT AREA are available in the Arts Centre
Foyer FAIRTRADE and organic products are available in the Gallery.
ECUMENICAL AND OVERSEAS GUESTS have the use of the Arts Centre Studio
throughout Assembly.
BUTTERWORTH HALL
All plenary sessions of Assembly will take place here. A Sennheiser infa-red
hearing system is in operation and headphones may be obtained from the URC
Information Desk in the Arts Centre foyer before each session and must be
returned at the end of the day so that they can be charged overnight.
Drinking water is available at various points.
A QUIET ROOM has been set aside in the Butterworth Hall Dressing
Room for URC use throughout the Assembly. Please feel free to use it. There
is also a Chaplaincy Centre available on the site, which you are welcome to
use at any time (a Roman Catholic Mass is held there at 12.30pm each day).
ROOTES BUILDING
BAR FACILITIES. A licensed bar and sitting-out area is available here
each day during normal opening hours 12 noon to 11 pm. A bar will also be
open in the Arts Centre from the close of the evening Assembly session until
11 pm.
SPECIAL INTEREST MEETINGS will be signposted within this building.
GENERAL FACILITIES ON CAMPUS
FACILITIES at the University include a bookshop, pharmacy, cinema,
hairdresser, newsagent, Post Office, supermarket and a launderette.
A GIFT SHOP (SOZO) is located in the heart of The Arts Centre, selling a
diverse Range of gifts from the functional to the decorative. SOZO is open
from 11.00am - 6.30pm, Monday - Friday.
There are Natwest, HSBC and Barclays BANKS on campus with cash
dispensers. These can be found in the mall area around Rootes Social
Building. There are also Link and Lloyds cash dispensers. You are advised to
bring some cash for drinks and other sundry items as individual room
accounts cannot be set up.
SPORTS FACILITIES are available to delegates free of charge. These
include indoor heated swimming pool, squash courts, well equipped gymnasium
and outside tennis courts. Squash and tennis courts can be booked at the
Sports Centre Reception (Ext 23011).
The general opening times are:
Monday to Friday 7.15am -
9.30pm
Saturday 7.15am - 9.30pm
Sunday 8.00am - 7.30pm
EMERGENCY SERVICES AND FIRE PROCEDURES
For help in an emergency dial 22222 from any internal telephone and your
call will be directed appropriately. Visitors are asked to familiarise
themselves with the University's fire procedures which are displayed in each
bedroom.
On discovering a fire in other buildings:
Raise the alarm by breaking the glass in the nearest Break Glass Point.
On hearing the continuous ringing of fire bells: Stop what you are doing
Leave by the nearest Fire Exit
Walk calmly, do not run
Do not stop to collect personal belongings
Make your way to the nearest evacuation point,
standing well clear of the building.
Do not re-enter the building until told to do so by the Fire Service or
University Security Staff.
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
First Aid is available through the URC Information Desk (Tel: 02476
523732). The University Health Centre is open Monday to Friday, 9.00am -
1.00pm and 2.00pm - 5.00pm. Visitors in need of emergency assistance outside
these hours should contact Security on internal extension 22222.
REPORTING INCIDENTS
In the unlikely event of an accident or other incident occurring on
'University premises, please report immediately to Rootes Reception (Ext.
22280) who
will then take appropriate action. Please dial 22222 from an internal
phone, or 024 7652 2222 externally to be in direct contact with our 24 hour
security staff.
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