Our Spring issue of IHBC’s members’ journal, Context – No. 183 examined ‘Wellbeing and Heritage’, with the IHBC ‘Director’s Cut’ exploring ‘our initiatives and support to help our busy volunteering members’, as he looks ahead to celebrating volunteers in No.184.
IHBC’s Director writes:
Readers will be familiar with my occasional updates on the opportunities, initiatives and support to help our busy volunteering members. They range from our open-access online COP26 CPD programme, which ran the full length of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, to our 25th anniversary celebratory funds for IHBC25 and the pandemic crisis funding uplift in branch funds. They also include what is now our CPD Branch Partnership. After many years as a pilot ‘local delivery’ service offering hard-to-access priority CPD, core- funded by the national body, this is now healthily up and running under the guidance of Angharad Hart.
This present column takes the opportunity to summarise and update on some more recent developments, the most important being the local capacity and support offered by our recently appointed Branch Liaison and Support Consultants. The brief summary below is adapted from our recently issued ‘IHBC Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC’s Director’. This service is devised to help leads in branch committees keep abreast of the huge breadth of matters of interest as they evolve.
As such, the Bulletin is an informal, personalised thread of our internal communication, cast to offer early notice on plans and opportunities and, among other things, serving as a spur to join more evolving discussions, including on our Council. It has developed from the service established when Jude Wheeler was our branch support officer, though now reflects the wider and more substantial network of branch support. …
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… Signing off in my role as director, I asked all to let us know what we can do to help, whether through their IHBC Branch Consultants or direct the National Office.
I hope this serves as a useful summary for the ways we are trying to help IHBC volunteers, branches and members as we continue our efforts, undiminished by our exploration of Charter – indeed, expanded by it. That, of course, will be the subject of a future column.
See the full text in Context 183
Context 183’s themed articles include:
- Wellbeing and heritage: making a difference, Linda Monckton and Desi Gradinarova
- The economics of heritage and wellbeing, Thomas Colwill and Adala Leeson
- Workplace wellbeing in the heritage sector, Angharad Hart
- Healing through heritage, Elaine Griffiths
- Broken pots, mending lives, Richard Osgood
- Bricks, mortar and emotions, Alexandra Dziegiel
- Heritage, ageing and wellbeing, Jessica Bowden
Other features and updates in Issue 183 include:
- Legal update: Alexandra Fairclough
- Obituary: Chris Topp
- Nairn’s Liverpool revisited, Ian Wray
- The destruction of the English country house, Graham Tite
Regulars features include
- Briefing
- Periodically
- The writer’s voice
- Notes from the chair
- Director’s cut
- New member profile
- Inter alia
- Vox pop
- Reviews
- Products and services
- Specialist suppliers index
See more Branch Bulletin background HERE
Access the online archive and see the issue online
Reading Context helps IHBC members develop their skills across all of the IHBC’s Areas of Competence, and so is a critical baseline in addressing priorities in Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
See more IHBC background and guidance on IHBC CPD and on how you might use past, current and future issues of Context
See the formal guidance paper on IHBC CPD (scheduled for update)
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