FUTURE DIRECTION OF THE SOCIETY
Professor Mick Aston, a new member of the SANHS Board of
Trustees, has recently put together his first thoughts on the Society’s future
in what he calls ‘a very rough document’.
His paper (attached at Annex) was considered by the Board in July and
subsequently ‘brainstormed’ with Mick by a small group of Trustees and
Committee chairs led by the Hon Treasurer.
The list of bullet points below summarises many of the ideas
which came from that brainstorm. In
discussion of this paper on 15 September, Advisory Council members are invited
to add their own comments and ideas on the future direction of the Society. The outcome of this meeting will then be used
to help draw up a long awaited Strategic Plan for the Society, containing clear
objectives against which performance can be measured.
Encouraging
membership
- Be clear on what membership offers
- Young Archaeologists Club (SANHS Branch)
- Young SANHS
- Extra mural courses
- Incomers and U3A
- Target working professionals, eg teachers
- Provide a mix of regular publications
- £10 membership without Proceedings
- Partnerships and co-operation with like minded groups to mutual advantage
- Combine Arch, LH, HB and NH into one ‘Field Studies’ committee
- Active role for subject committees in delivering SANHS objectives
- Less complex central structure
- Better coverage of eg W.Somerset
- Links to all parts of county through regional or area representatives
- Associated Society networks
- Provide central, informed hub for groups across the county
- Impact of digitisation
- ‘U-Tube’ lectures
- E-newsletters and publications
- Social events
- Multi disciplinary approach
- Meetings of Committee chairs to programme events of shared interest
- Workshops with practical training and instruction
- Hands on field projects
- Annual introductions to all collections with tours of SHC and museum items
- ‘SANHS Trails’ related to items in the collections with Booklets/Web guides
- Wyndham Hall
- Fundraising and HLF applications to support major projects
- Complement not compete with Heritage Services
- Reality check on availability of resources, project leaders and volunteers
- Simple structure of governance
Hon Secretary
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