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Chipping Campden - taking the project further
Location: Gloucestershire
Jill Wilson is Chairman of Campden & District Historical and Archaeological Society (CADHAS), which she joined in 1985.
We’ve been advised that some of the things we want to do are eligible for a second LHI project, and we’re about to make a second application to the LHI to enable us to continue and expand on what we’ve been doing.
We needed more equipment, like a tall ladder so that we can reach the top shelves, and a digital projector - we’ve been borrowing one up to now, and it would be so useful to have one of our own.
We hadn’t realised with the first grant that we could ask for help with training volunteers to do things like handling documents, using computers for things like scanning photographs, interview techniques - how to get people to talk comfortably into a microphone. We’re pretty sure we have two Romano-British sites nearby, so it would be useful to have some training in field walking - and what to do with what we find.
We would really benefit from some training. Some of it we do in house - newcomers “shadow” experienced members for a while until they get the hang of it and can do it themselves. But it would be better to have a half day school and really work on it.
Almost everything we are doing, we could do better with a little bit of help. One of the delights of the LHI scheme is that if you want advice, you can ask. But they don’t push it at you, which is really nice. You don’t feel you have someone breathing down your neck thinking “I could tell you how to do that better”.
Last year, we decided to review what we had done as a Society in our first twenty years, and where we would like to see ourselves in a few years’ time. So we held a Planning Day with the President, two Vice Presidents, all the Committee, and a fair number of ordinary members and the LHI helped us considerably by providing us with a neutral Chairman for that meeting. It might have been much more difficult for some of the more recent and junior members to have spoken up if one of our “top brass” had been in the chair.
It is quite astonishing how much you can pick up from the various things we’ve been enabled to do as a result of the LHI. I went to a fantastic day they held in Bristol in 2003, where we saw other societies giving presentations and that gave us a wonderful lot of ideas for things that we could copy - that’s one of the reasons why we’re doing so much more in our second application.
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