{"id":7437,"date":"2014-04-04T19:10:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2014-04-04T19:11:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:11:40","slug":"ihbc-member-survey-273-respondees-1-award-and-infinite-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7437","title":{"rendered":"IHBC member survey: 273 respondees, 1 award and infinite possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The IHBC\u2019s Council, through IHBC President Trefor Thorpe, has thanked the many members who contributed to the recent \u2018member and user\u2019 survey, highlighting the positive messages it carries as well as the nature of the work to be done by the IHBC to make sure we offer a proper home for the\u00a0full spectrum of skills that deliver conservation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>IHBC President Trefor Thorpe said: \u2018When I reported to our Council on the survey yesterday we were all most impressed at the scale of the response.\u00a0 Even more valuable was the wide interest in the IHBC extending our corporate reach much more widely, beyond Branches, historic disciplines, and even historic boundaries.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Overall, as anyone reading will see, there has been an enthusiastic endorsement of where we are in our evolution.\u00a0 But, as Council, we are charged with looking to our future, not resting on our laurels, so we\u2019re going to come back to members over the coming months with suggestions that will try to address the challenges raised here.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Council should receive some firm recommendations at its next sitting in September, hopefully following some more discussion around our AGM and School in Edinburgh in June.\u00a0 So if you can come to that too, and join in those discussions, all the better!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In the interim, do take a look through the report and see if there\u2019s any further thoughts that spring to mind as I\u2019m always happy to hear new ideas, alternative approaches and indeed any suggestions about how we can all do our job better.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can also announce that the \u00a350 award for doing the\u00a0survey will go to Dr James Campbell, architect, architectural historian and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and\u00a0evidently the sort of multi-skilled practitioner\u00a0that will underpin the IHBC&#8217;s future.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Download the report <a href=\"http:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/resources\/IHBC%20%27Members%20and%20users%27%20survey%20report%20040414.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IHBC\u2019s Council, through IHBC President Trefor Thorpe, has thanked the many members who contributed to the recent \u2018member and user\u2019 survey, highlighting the positive messages it carries as well as the nature of the work to be done by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=7437\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437","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=7437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7441,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions\/7441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}