{"id":26671,"date":"2020-06-16T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T15:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=26671"},"modified":"2020-06-15T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T11:17:10","slug":"ihbcs-latest-membership-matters-update-issued-pivoting-in-a-pandemic-building-conservation-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=26671","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s latest \u2018Membership Matters\u2019 update issued: \u2018Pivoting in a pandemic – Building conservation advocacy\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Signed-up IHBC members will have received the current issue of the newly named \u2018IHBC Membership Matters\u2019<\/em> \u2013 previously our Member Eletter<\/em> – offering updates on recent IHBC trustee meetings while providing more context on our NewsBlog<\/a> service updates.<\/h3>\n

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The IHBC writes:<\/p>\n

Pivoting in a pandemic \u2013 Building conservation advocacy with new APPG, VP, Schools and more<\/em><\/p>\n

This newly named \u2018IHBC Membership Matters\u2019<\/em> offers updates to members on recent meetings of – and reports to \u2013 IHBC trustees, as well as providing a little more context to our NewsBlog service updates.<\/p>\n

This issue covers the three trustee meetings over the period from February 2020 \u2013 when \u2018pandemics\u2019 and COVID-19 were still far from our radar \u2013 to June.\u00a0 Now our Brighton School is postponed until 2021; we’ve pivoted to an alternative format and platform for a 2020 Virtual School<\/a>; and trustees are addressing genuine concerns across members and the wider sector over the IHBC\u2019s capacity to maintain our current legacy of accessible support to the full diversity of our membership and their networks.<\/p>\n

Yet not all has been about threats and pivots.\u00a0\u00a0 While our AGM has had to be postponed \u2013 a precautionary stay, to December 3 \u2013 the planned resolutions will remain: on our Corporate Plan for 2020-25, (\u2018CP25<\/a>\u2019), updated as far as reasonable, and our new constitution, starting with \u2018Articles of Association\u2019, in line with the \u2018Proposal for future Governance\u2026<\/a>\u2019 as approved at our 2019 AGM<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Similarly our ongoing efforts to establish a new All Party Parliamentary Group<\/a> (APPG) for advocacy in the political terrain is securing a solid list of founding members, even if the formal establishment has been delayed due to the need for an in-person meeting in Westminster.<\/p>\n

We have also made a more substantial \u2013 and for many, long overdue \u2013 pivot towards digital support, even encompassing the planned priority CPD \u2018Local Delivery Pilots\u2019 to be offered to our Branches.\u00a0 And though we have dispensed with the 2020 School issue of Context<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> to manage outgoings, our publications are continuing as normal otherwise: two issues of Context<\/em> have been issued since the last Membership Matters<\/em>, one is in hand, and our Yearbook<\/em><\/a> is imminent, with introductions from our future APPG Chair as well as Griff Rhys Jones, no less!<\/p>\n

So, while bleakness maybe pervasive just now, it is not inevitable.\u00a0 The reality too is that some changes arising from the pandemic have positive impacts for conservation: our international networks have received an invaluable shot in the arm with the Virtual School, while we welcomed both a new IHBC Vice President and a Memorandum of Understanding<\/a>.\u00a0 In many ways, if our immediate plans have been hampered, our trajectory is at once more substantial and sustainable than ever before\u2026.<\/p>\n

Download the June issue and earlier issues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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