decay, or destruction, to sheer ignor~ ance or apathy. What can be done to help him? Certainly, he needs the support ~~d encouragement of his 1 colleagues, and he should take advantage of courses and join the SPAB but there is nothing so effective as people helping themselves! For some time conservation officers in, for example, the South East or East Anglia, have met together to share their hard-won experience and to see more examples of work in areas: other than their own. Following a 1 meeting at the Civic Trust chaired by! Mrs .Jenkins in December 1979, conservation officers from all over the country have helped the Crafts Council to lay the foundations of a National Crafts Skills Register. , Their combined experience quite quic-[ kly helped to solve a problem first 1 identified in EARY 1975 far more economically than had been thought possible. The lesson was not lost on the conservation officers, who resolved in September 1981 to constitute a.~ AGsociation, with the minimum necessa::-y formality, to provide a framework within which all censer- I vation offict!:cs mig;.1.t have the oppor-! tu.."1ity to help each other. It was ' not intended to create a professional! Institute or a learned Society - they already exist. Nor was it expected that people should travel from' all over the country for frequent meetings, nor to seek to advise the local authority Associations - which is the prerogative of the Societies of chief officers. Rather, it is the, intention to allow conservation offi1 cers to meet their colleagues on a local, or regional, and voluntary basis; and by doing so they may en- , large their individual and collective 1 exoerience - that vital ingredient! ' This Newsletter is a first effort to tell you something o:f what is going on - and not only the good news! It is to allow you, individually or as local Conservation ForUr::J.s, to have a cha.."'lce to express your views and tell us what you've ma."'laged to do - or ask the difficult questions! We hope you won't mind a fairly basic sta."YJ.dard of production - we are all busy people, and we only ask a small subscription. We are not a glossy magazine -you can get that at Smiths! For those who have joined - welcome aboard! For those who would like to join -please do! We're all in the same business! CONTEXT IS YOUR NEWSLETTER...... . The newsletter is here to serve you.Contributions, news, views, queries and abuse ..•.. get them of~ your chest and into print {so long: as its not libelloustt).1/Je need • volunteers to help with mailings; to review publications; to find & collate news and to monitor the activities of other professional organisations and amenity bodies that are connected with our work. In contributing, all I ask is that. you follow the format described below to save your ~ard-pressed editor time and headaches. FORM.I\ T. .. as the first issue with regular columns covering specific topic areas.Quarterly in February,' May,August and November each year.: I DEADLINES ... for copy: three weeks: in advance.Publication will be in the last week of the month. TYPEF;.\CE... standard typewriter faces,single spaced in columns of, 85mm wide only. ILLUSTRATIONS ... so long as we use the current printing technique these must be 85mm wide finished line drawings 0.2mm line width. Photographs forthe present are too complicated. POST ... all information and copy to; either: the Editor at 26,Silver Crescent. London. W4. or Jenny Birkett at 13O,Bouverie Ave.s., Salisbury. I.Vi 1 ts. Thanks to all those who made CO:'\TEXT Voll.No1.Feb'83 possible especially the Chairman(he won't get so much space next issuet), Peter Richards and not le .. ast Jenny' Birkett for ideas anc.1 encouxa.912:,m,eni';
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