{"id":43775,"date":"2025-08-19T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43775"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:59:42","slug":"ihbc-looks-back-at-context-183-as-183-examines-wellbeing-and-heritage-the-directors-cut-spotlights-our-volunteers-starting-with-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=43775","title":{"rendered":"IHBC looks back at Context 183: As 183 examines \u2018Wellbeing and Heritage\u2019, the Director\u2019s Cut spotlights our volunteers, starting with \u2018Support\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our Spring issue of IHBC\u2019s members\u2019 journal, Context<\/em><\/a> \u2013 No. 183<\/a> <\/strong> examined \u2018Wellbeing and Heritage\u2019, with the IHBC \u2018Director\u2019s Cut\u2019 exploring \u2018our initiatives and support to help our busy volunteering members\u2019, as he looks ahead to celebrating volunteers in No.184<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

IHBC\u2019s Director writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2018local delivery\u2019 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2018IHBC Branch Committee Bulletin, from the IHBC\u2019s Director\u2019. This service is devised to help leads in branch committees keep abreast of the huge breadth of matters of interest as they evolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2013 indeed, expanded by it. That, of course, will be the subject of a future column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See the full text in <\/em>Context<\/em> 183<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Context<\/em> 183\u2019s themed articles include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n