NAMfest 2024

Following the success of last year's event, we’d love you to join us again for NAMfest 2024. This year, we will be celebrating ten years of the nurses and midwives fellowship at CMF. As always, our celebration will include worship, fellowship, and food. But, instead of hearing from just one speaker, there will be a chance to hear stories from a range of Christians working in the nursing and midwifery professions. Let's rejoice in the past, thanking God for all he has done over the last decade, as well as praying for the present, and looking forward to the future.

2024 is a double celebration year, as we will also be giving thanks to God for the 75th anniversary of CMF. So please join us and, if you can, stay on for the CMF National Conference from 19-21 April. 

Cost for NAMfest and Ciah:

£70 for full NAMfest (£50 for students)

£35 for Friday day only includes lunch

Programme timings:

Registration and access to rooms from 15:30 on Thursday 18 April, with the first session starting at 17:00. 

For day delegates, we start at 9:15 on Friday 19 April.

NAMfest finishes at 17:00 on Friday 19 April.

Workshop choices:

Please choose your top three preferences of workshops and we will accommodate for two in the afternoon of Friday 19th April.

1. Encourager Communities 

We look forward to welcoming you to the ‘Encourager Community’ workshop, where together we will:

DISCOVER more of God’s heart of encouragement for the people around us,

CONSIDER why encouragement is so important today’s world, 

DEVELOP skills to become better at both giving and receiving encouragement.

The workshop will last an hour, be interactive, and include discussion on:

• Jesus’s example as an encourager 
• Why and how we can be intentional encouragers 
• Developing encourager skills to add to your personal and professional toolkit.

Come along, enjoy stimulating discussion, and share ideas to build our encourager communities.

Lead by Jane Colling, who is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner working in a Rapid Response/Virtual Ward team in North Lancashire. She is a CMF Peer Support Coordinator, an active member of CMF Morecambe Bay, and has a passion for developing cultures of kindness, hope, and encouragement amongst colleagues, patients, and the wider community, hence her involvement with developing ‘encouraging communities’.

2. How to flourish at work with whole life faith

We aim in this workshop to look at and better understand the workplace challenges we face as Christians. We will look at everyday, real-life examples of the issues that confront us. We will read the Bible with health workers’ eyes, using a tool called ‘The 6M's’, role play, and shared questions.

This is a practical workshop, and we hope that we will all be better able to flourish at work by learning with and from each other.

Sue Holcombe is a retired Advanced Nurse Practitioner but continues to be National Nurse lead for Association of Breast Surgery. She also leads on Whole Life Faith with CMF as well as being part of CMF's Pastoral team.

Dr Laura Anderson works part time as GP in the Scottish Borders and as a GP advisor for the Scottish Ambulance Service. She has been on the SE Scotland CMF Catalyst Team for over two years, first as prayer catalyst, and now as co-lead.

Relaxation options:

3. Walk

This will be for 45mins max. Get some fresh air and make some new friends whilst exploring the green Staffordshire countryside. Bring waterproof walking shoes, as it can be muddy!

4. Painting Stones

In 1 Samuel 7:12 it says that Samuel ‘...took a stone and set it up...he named it Ebenezer, saying ‘Thus far the LORD has helped us’. During the main sessions we will be building a tower of stones to honour how God has helped us as individuals and as a fellowship over the last ten years. In this session there will be an opportunity to express your creativity in painting stones with acrylic paints that you can take away with you at the end. Please bring an apron, or other clothes in which to paint. Some paints and brushes will be provided, but feel free to bring your own materials too.

5. Board and card games

A wonderful way to relax and get to know one another. There will a variety of games to choose from, but if you have a favourite, why not bring it along and teach it to us?

We want to meet you in person to be encouraged and equipped in our faith in Jesus as Allied Health Professionals!

We will be alongside the Nurses and Midwives for the Thursday evening and the majority of Friday, but with a two-part session just for Christians in Allied Health (CiAH).

PT Lesley Dawson and Dr Andy Charley (experts from PRIME) will be taking us through the principles of ‘Whole Person Care’ in an interactive and informative way. Part A (11.00-12.30) will focus on teaching and Part B (14:00-15:00) will be workshop-based – it’s sure to be a blessing!

We are not just bodies, we know that, but how can we; professionally, biblically, lovingly, and respectfully acknowledge and support the spiritual needs of our patients and colleagues?

We are praying that those who attend will be built up in their faith and strengthened in their work for the glory of God! There is something brilliant about coming together in person and offering up this time set aside to see how God wants to use it. We can't wait!

Please specify your TOP THREE options when booking the workshop choices (you will only do one) where we will re-join the nurses and midwives programme at 15:30-16:30.

More details on our CiAH webpage and other events and ways to join us this year

Bookings closes on 4 April 2024.

How to book

1. Log in 

If you are already a CMF student member, please login in with your existing login details to obtain the reduced rate for members. 

If you need a reminder of your username or if you have forgotten your password, please use the links on the right-hand side of this page to request a reminder of your username or to reset your password. If you have problems logging in, please email admin@cmf.org.uk for assistance. 

If you have not used this website before, please create a user account before logging in.

2. Choose your registration option 

3. Enter delegate information

Once you have selected your registration option, please answer the questions on the form. Providing answers to the questions, helps us deliver a better conference experience. You will also need to tell us your seminar choices. Remember to click on 'save responses' to save your answers at each stage.

4. Checkout / Payment

When you have registered, click on the 'add to cart' button at the bottom of the page to checkout with your credit or debit card details.

5. Cancellation policy 

If you cancel your booking before March 13, 2024, payment will be returned with the deduction of a £20 administration fee. However, no refunds will be paid for cancellations after March 13, 2024, unless in exceptional circumstances.

6. Important information

The information we gather via this form will be used to process your registration. We will share relevant information you provide with the conference venue to enable them to fulfil your accommodation requirements and any special dietary needs.

We will use your email address and mobile number to send you additional relevant information before and during the conference.