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Many thanks to our readers who completed the survey we conducted late last year. A number of frequently asked questions arose some of which we will attempt to address here.

CNM is frequently asked about it's charitable status. We have looked in to this but feel that the administrative costs would outweigh any possible advantage. We will however keep this under review from time to time, but until our membership base and budget grows it may not be cost effective... "catch 22"!

Many people have enquired about local groups. We presently have active groups in London, Bristol and Birmingham. While we would dearly love to help groups form elsewhere we believe the best strategy is first to put on an "away day" or half day event which may then become the means to kick start a local group. CNM has 120+ members spread across England & Wales with most of these clustered in the major conurbations. If you would like to have a CNM sponsored event in your locality then why not give us a call? [But bear in mind that it can take nine months from planning to execution!]

We would like to develop our internet services more. The idea of setting up a chat-room received universal approval but no-one said that they would/could access it! So we will put this on ice for now. But there may be scope to develop "special interest groups" which communicate by e-mail. We note that we have a number of academics on our books and wonder if it would be useful to facilitate contact between them via CNM. What do you think?

On the whole "CNM News" gets a thumbs-up from our readers. Some have suggested expanding or making it more frequent. We presently publish it three times per year. As things stand we probably do not receive enough material to enlarge the paper. We would consider making CNM News a quarterly publication if we could be confident of having sufficient articles. So please... write, write, write!

This June CNM will be holding it's second AGM and some of the existing committee will be retiring and others will take their place. Thanks to the support of it's members CNM has survived a tricky birth and now the next committee will have the responsibility of seeing that CNM moves from surviving to thriving. It will be an opportunity to review our mistakes and learn what works and what doesn't. We are keen that all our members feel involved in this process, especially if they are unable to attend the AGM. Please write or e-mail us with your views and ideas.

CNM is sometimes asked about it's relationship with other Christian healthcare organisations. CNM is affiliated to UCCF as one of it's "professional groups". Within this forum we meet annually with Christian Medical Fellowship, Christian Dental Fellowship and the Christian Therapists Network.

Although we are not formally affiliated to the Nurses Christian Fellowship International we have a cordial relationship with them. We also coordinate our activities with NCF Scotland.