Meeting on
Thursday, 16 August 2012 at 2.00 pm In the Research Room
At Somerset Heritage Centre
AGENDA
1. Priorities and Action Plans including Associated Society rules – Trustee Board, July 2012, Paper 11.2 2. Report on M & M events: Dunster, Taunton
3. Forthcoming M & M events
4. Projects in progress (not covered in item 1):
Membership & Associated Societies
- Subscription payment/membership status
- Marking membership application forms
- Membership secretary
- Guidance on running meetings
- Overall forward programme
- Meeting programme card format
- Leaflet distribution
- SANHS News run-on – use of
- Powerpoint presentation
- FAQs
- Programme information feed
6. Appealing to younger people sub-committee
7. Next meeting
Summary of M&MWG meeting 16/08/12
ReplyDeleteThe meeting was attended by 7 members and 4 sent their apologies. Through the efforts of the Group’s Members and the Publications Committee the Society successfully raised its public profile and interested prospective members by having stands at the Dunster Fair and Taunton Flower Show. It was represented by Brian and Moira Gittos at the Church Monument’s Society symposium in Cardiff; at the Dillington House open day there will be a SANHS stand again offering visitors amusing activities and Mary Siraut will give a talk. Marilyn Crothers continues to plan a workshop event for October. Following the July Finance and General Purposes Committee more work is being done on the treatment for Gift Aid purposes of payments to charities and the relationship between the marketing programme presented to the Trustees and the 2013 budget for the Society. This will assist the Group’s decisions at its next meeting. “Recommend a Friend” was launched by email and on the website on 1st August (http://www.sanhs.org/Recommend%20a%20Friend.htm) and the scheme has already generated interest from prospective members. Details have also been sent with the autumn Newsletter mailing. The pilot scheme to contact people moving into the county is running and its operation is being monitored. A plan is being developed to make the Society’s contacts with prospective members more personal; the roles surrounding a membership secretary are to receive more attention from the committee. The feeds of information to the chairman for publicity purposes and to Bill Kelly for inclusion in the web News Bulletins and elsewhere are still quite weak however an associated societies section on the SANHS website is up and running and will be introduced to delegates at the associated societies’ annual meeting in October. Bill Kelly is seeking more members to assist with the running of the Society’s website. The committee is seeking to set up initiatives to increase the involvement of younger people with the Society. Bill Kelly is using his contacts with Richard Huish College (a schools member of SANHS) to pilot some possibilities. The next meeting is due on 27 September at SHC.