{"id":2277,"date":"2011-01-14T18:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2011-01-14T18:07:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:07:01","slug":"campaign-against-end-of-riba-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"Campaign against end of RIBA Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fury over the scrapping of the RIBA Trust looks set to force Portland Place to hold a special general meeting for the first time in more than a decade.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nFollowing the unceremonious abolition of the trust at the end of last month \u2013 a move masterminded by RIBA chief executive Harry Rich and narrowly voted through by council \u2013 former trustee Roger Zogolovitch has launched a petition to get the action overturned.<\/p>\n<p>He told BD that he hoped to secure the 280 signatures from chartered members needed to trigger the special general meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The last time such a meeting was triggered in this way was in 1997 when traditionalists rebelled against the modernising agenda of then RIBA director-general Alex Reid.<\/p>\n<p>Zogolovitch, who believes Rich\u2019s plans were bounced through without proper discussion or consultation, said he hoped to use the RIBA\u2019s own democratic structure to mount a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>He has registered the name for a new campaign website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tm-trustmatters.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">www.tm-trustmatters.co.uk<\/a>, and email address,<a href=\"mailto:support@tm-trustmatters.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\"> support@tm-trustmatters.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, there is no RIBA Trust,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to collect signatures, which will give people time to air the issues about the future of the trust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motion put to the meeting would seek its re-instatement\u2026 my belief is that this needs to be overturned by people who were on the trust board along with past presidents and those who understand the intellection value of the [RIBA Trust] collections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BD Online: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/5011361.article?origin=BDbreakingnews http:\/\/www.bdonline.co.uk\/5011361.article?origin=BDbreakingnews \" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fury over the scrapping of the RIBA Trust looks set to force Portland Place to hold a special general meeting for the first time in more than a decade. Following the unceremonious abolition of the trust at the end of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=2277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}