Trusting trusty trustees, as The Archaeologist meets Context

Director's chair imageIHBC Director Sean O’Reilly salutes the IHBC’s trustees, not only for delivering their statutory obligations but because of the value they bring through their profound knowledge of conservation, in a ‘Director’s Cut’ for Context that has also been recast as the IHBC’s annual update in CIfA’s member publication The Archaeologist.

In his ‘Director’s Cut’ column in Context No.147, Sean O’Reilly talks about the importance of trustees to the IHBC and how their industry knowledge supports their oversight role. And how they help the IHBC deliver so much on limited resources.

For example, did you know that James Caird, our new National Chair, has held senior meetings with the Landscape Institute and the CIfA, among others? And that Vice Chair Kathy Davies was interviewed on local radio about the IHBC’s contributions to a locally-led community capacity-building initiative on the Isle of Man? Or that Education Secretary Bridget Turnbull represented the IHBC at events such as the launch of the new Heritage Trust Network?

Sean O’Reilly also summarises IHBC actions in delivering its constitutional objects, including:

Helping people

  • Launching two websites to support public understanding of, and access to, conservation practice and principles: ‘Caring for your Home’ and the ‘IHBC Conservation Wiki’
  • Presenting our suite of annual conservation-related awards. 

Helping conservation

  • The three days of the 2016 annual school on ‘People Power’
  • The reciprocal ‘one-year free taster membership’ with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists
  • Securing consultation by Historic England on a controversial paper on curtilage, alongside signs of revisions to its apprenticeship proposals
  • Successful and continuing regional conservation training and membership guidance for staff on the diocesan advisory committees. 

Helping conservation specialists

  • The IHBC AGM, which accompanies the annual school, including the election and associated briefing of new trustees
  • Consultation on a membership ‘Practice Standard’, jointly drafted with the Historic Towns and Villages Forum, Civic Voice and others.

Background on the IHBC-CIfA MOU

The Archaeologist

For the fee-free taster year of CIfA services for IHBC members see the CIfA website

Find out about the reciprocal arrangements for CIfA members

Read the full Context story

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