On Saturday 9 November 2024, colleagues and friends of Agnes Flues were joined by her partner Manuel Peña Prieto at Wollaton Hall parkrun to celebrate her life and social justice, within UCU and beyond.
Photo credit Chris Tregnza https://tregenza.com/ucu-uon-parkrun-for-agnes/
Agnes was a regular runner, and Wollaton was her local parkrun. We were honoured that Manuel could join us and see our show of love and respect for Agnes.
Manuel leading the way with a UCU flag in hand – Photo credit Chris Tregnza https://tregenza.com/ucu-uon-parkrun-for-agnes/
Agnes was a tireless activist taking a number of roles on the UoN UCU branch committee, as well as having been elected to UCU’s National Executive Committee. In memory of all that she did, UoN UCU hope to gather in future years at Wollaton Hall parkrun on the nearest Saturday to her birthday. We therefore invited runners and their supporters to contribute to branch fundraising, which remains open.
A post-run collection – Manuel Peña Prieto photo credit
Participants and supporters wore UCU colours (pink and purple) and we also had a number of handheld UCU flags that caught the attention of fellow parkrun participants (642 finishers). The results are available on the Wollaton Hall parkrun website.
On 24th October UCU UoN President Lopa Leach represented UCU UoN at the signing of a new joint recognition agreement between the University of Nottingham, represented by Vice Chancellor Shearer West, and all three campus unions, with Vicki Morris representing UNISON and Declan Brady representing Unite.
