{"id":9169,"date":"2014-12-12T16:50:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9169"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:50:31","slug":"ihbc-welcomes-ihbc-ihbc-plus-experimental-evolution-encouraging-new-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9169","title":{"rendered":"IHBC welcomes\u2026 \u2018IHBC+\u2019 (\u2018IHBC plus\u2019): experimental evolution encouraging new volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Following almost unanimous agreement at the IHBC\u2019s most recent Council meeting, starting in January 2015 the Institute will explore alternative governance structures aimed at helping volunteers get more involved under a programme entitled \u2018IHBC+\u2019 (pronounced IHBC plus), which includes<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an expanded advisory Council \u2013 \u2018Council+\u2019(Council plus) \u2013 which will almost double the current size of our Council by including more Branch nominees and other co-optees, and<\/li>\n<li>a more focussed and more regular gathering of trustees \u2013 our current Council, coming together in person or online \u2013 to focus on trustees\u2019 core duties to monitor resources and deliver on our plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IHBC President Trefor Thorpe said: \u2018The precise arrangements for the future governance of the Institute will be tested under this plan for IHBC+, a plan that we are very consciously describing as \u2018experimental evolution\u2019.\u00a0 This testing will allow us to explore alternative support and management processes without the need to change our constitution.\u00a0 That way we will know just what we want to do when we are ready to do it. This is a careful plan that, like all good conservation projects, recognises the importance both of precautionary principles and reversibility!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The key element of the plan is the expansion of Council to include a much more broadly-based body of representation and opinion.\u00a0 Hopefully this will be capable of responding to the full range of aims and objectives we have seen in our recent member surveys, whilst also reducing the scale of time commitment.\u00a0 This should encourage more of you to participate in the important work of strengthening our organisation and keeping it at the forefront of the field in which we operate.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018And it is not the first time we have approached challenging structural changes in this way.\u00a0 In 2005 we introduced the institute\u2019s 5 new management committees \u2013 those covering all our activities from finance to outreach \u2013 but we test-ran the new structures before undertaking constitutional consolidation in 2007.\u00a0 That way we made sure we did that job just the once, effectively and at the lowest cost.\u00a0 I\u2019m delighted to say that we\u2019re able to build on the success of those Committees and strategies in the plans we\u2019re following here, but clearly on a much more ambitious scale!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>IHBC Chair Mike Brown said: \u2018We\u2019ve been grappling with constitutional structures for more than 5 years now and I\u2019m delighted that we now have a plan, supported by our Council, that allows us to move forward.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The new arrangements recognise in the first instance the feedback we\u2019re getting from our members through our surveys, where we have heard of their ambitions for our institute, and their interest in getting more involved.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But they also recognise the substantial new pressures on our existing management and governance, pressures that have been generated by our success: increased membership, business expansion and ever-new ambitions.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But as the IHBC looks to an even more ambitious future, so too we need a better handle on our own operations, and the IHBC+ programme will help us explore how best to do that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018With the principle of experimental evolution now agreed, we can get down to the details.\u00a0 It will take a little time to filter out of course, so for now, think about how you might get more involved in our work and register your interest with the local Branch.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">For more information<\/span>:<br \/>\nInterim details of the new arrangements agreed at the IHBC\u2019s Council are available from your Branch representative (see the IHBC\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihbc.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> or our Yearbook for contact details).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following almost unanimous agreement at the IHBC\u2019s most recent Council meeting, starting in January 2015 the Institute will explore alternative governance structures aimed at helping volunteers get more involved under a programme entitled \u2018IHBC+\u2019 (pronounced IHBC plus), which includes: an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9169\">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-9169","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\/9169","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=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}