What are your views and experiences of your local Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body (AWERB)? It should be a valuable resource to help optimise the benefits of scientific research, identify associated ethical issues, minimise harms to animals, and prepare project licence applications so that they are ‘Home Office ready’. It should also provide you with the opportunities to improve animal welfare alongside your science, help to develop and shape your establishment’s Culture of Care, and get to know your animal technologists, Named Veterinary Surgeon and other named persons better, facilitating good communications. However, if the AWERB is not structured well, is not very inclusive of scientific and other staff in its approach to its tasks, or is poor at communicating, it may be seen negatively as a source of stress rather than as the source of useful information and advice that is intended. It is in everyone’s interests for AWERBs to function well, yet there have been few opportunities to gather personal and project licence holders’ views on how the AWERB affects them – either positively or negatively – and to feed this back to AWERBs more widely. Neither have there been many forums where the benefits of a well run, thoughtfully organised AWERB can be set out for scientists who are not closely engaged with the process. This interactive lunchtime workshop will cover both aspects. The aims are: – to provide the opportunity for you to set out what you have always wanted to tell your AWERB (anonymously if you wish!) which can then be fed into AWERB guidance notes; – to review the benefits the AWERB should deliver and why it is important to be more engaged; and – to discuss ideas and action points to help participants become more involved with their AWERBs. Why not join us and have your say? You can bring your lunch with you, and drop in for as long or as short a time as you like over the lunch break.