IHBCNEWS contact Alexandra. It would be helpful if Branches that could provide a venue for the Roadshows also get in touch with Alexandra. Members of the Committee will continue to submit articles to Context on relevant issues. IHBC Yearbook As reported in the last issue of Notes From Council, this is being progressed by the East Midlands Branch. Two publishers have been approached who believe this can be produced at no cost to the Institute, as advertising income will cover publication. The Branch has contacted likely candidates to produce articles for inclusion in the Yearbook, which should be published in the summer. Education The Education Secretary,John Preston, reported that his appea I to the Branches to nominate an education contact had been very successful. There are now eight nominees. Discussions continue on CPD requirements. The Committee has suggested a minimum of 50 hours of CPD, but some members of Council thought this may initially be too onerous. The Committee was asked to produce a detailed paper on CPD requirements for a further meeting and the findings may be reported to the next AGM. Membershipnotes On 21 January, the IHBC membership database included 1415 names. This figure included 970 Full Members, 213 Affiliate Members, 22 Associate Members, 9 Corporate Members and 201 former ACO members who are currently Affiliate Members. The breakdown of membership by branch at 31 October 1999 was 152 in East Anglia, 121 in East Midlands, 182 in London, 19 in Northern Ireland, 51 in North, 83 in North West, 8 in the Republic of Ireland, 98 in Scotland, 114 in South East, 123 in South, 196 in South West, 62 in Wales, 90 in West Midlands, 104 in Yorkshire and 12 Overseas. The following new Members were voted in at the Council Meeting on 9 December 1999 (Branch Letters in parentheses). Welcome to you all: Full Members Geoffrey Holland (YO) Anthony Blee (LO) T J Morris (WA) Charles Hippisley-Cox (WM) Howard Crossley (YO) Jonathan MacKechnie-Jarvis (SW) Aff"iliate Members Miss Caroline Ridgwell (SW) John I-loath (EA) Anne Dietz de Broise (SO) Associate Members St Blaise (SW) The following former ACO or IHBC members were either voted in as members of the 46 lnstitute or had their membership categories upgraded at the Council Meetings on 25 February and 15 April 1999: Full Members A J Albon-Crouch (SW) Paul A Scott (EA) I would remind all members again that only full Members of the new Institute may use the letters IHBC (and please notMIHBC, I0 HBC or MI0 HBC) after their name. Please note that former ACO Members who have not yet applied for membership of the Institute are still living a charmed existence. I have been just too busy to pester them. Surely you all know who you are? Rest assure that you will eventually be expected to apply officially for membership of the Institute. You were only transferred temporarily into the Institute as Affiliate or Associate Members and you must apply formally for membership of the Institute. For those who do not apply for membership of the Institute, T suspect that Council will finally resolve that your membership will have to be terminated. So why not apply for membership now rather than waiting for a letter from me? If you have lost the forms, please contact me and I will send you some more. r will be sending out subscription reminders to all members soon. Please remember that subscriptions are increasing on 1 April- £50 for Members/ Associates/ AffiliAiudproject David Baxter, Chair of the East Midlands Branch, reported that this was continuing to develop as a successful initiative. The main aim of the project was to create a centre for conservation excellence in Romania. An initial launch had taken place on 4 October 1999 and had been attended by Government Ministers from both Romania and Hungary. Recently, the Romanian contractors have been to England to be introduced to brick and lime technology and the brick kiln at Acton Scott had been fired again, producing some good quality bricks. There has been a great deal of media interest in the project. ates, £20 for Retired Members and £10 for the Concessionary Rate (students and those suffering hardship). I will be recommending, as usual, that you pay by banker's order if you don't already do so, and the letter will include a new form of banker's order which will also enable those who already pay by this method to upgrade their banker"s order instructions. l am hoping that this process will help to eliminate many of the payment problems created where subscriptions are currently being paid by members' banks into out-of-date ACO bank accounts in Chelmsford (NatWest) and Witney (Lloyds). Tracking of subscriptions is very difficult when members' banks are still paying into old ACO accounts (the NatWest ACO account received 106 payments this year and the Lloyds ACO account received 196 payments 1). If you find that your subscriptions have been paid to either of these old accounts, don't worry that we may have missed it. We track and record payments received in all ACO and !HBC accounts. For your information, the proper account to pay subscriptions into is the Institute of Historic Building Conservation account 0074660 at Lloyds l3ank, Witney (30-99-78). It really is worth checking this out, as some of the payments being made into these old accounts are being paid in addition to a proper payment into the II-IBC subscription account. As I continually remind members, many of their banks continue to make a mess of the instructions given The entire October trip was covered by Romanian and Hungarian television and, since returning, the team has been approached by the BBC which is now making a programme. A summary of what has been achieved has been published in three languages and the team has been asked to give a presentation to a conference at St. James Palace in April. Andfinal~ Congratulations to Malcolm Airs who has made it into the latest edition of 'Who's Who·. Despite his many other accomplishments, he will be listed as the Chair of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. David Davidson to them on banker's order forms. Please check your bank accounts. If you don't ask for a 1:efund, Carole Fry and I will assume that all overpayments of subscriptions are donations to the Institute. Notwithstanding the above comments, arranging to pay your subscription by banker's order hopefully reduces the problem of you forgetting to pay your annual subscription and then getting struck off for non payment. I must stress, however, that it is still your responsibility to check that your bank has indeed paid your subscription. Be warned - a form from your bank listing sums that should be paid by banker's order is not an adequate record. You actually need to see the payment recorded on the appropriate bank statement. Several members have been given assurances by their banks that banker's orders have been set up only to find, on further investigation, that the bank has still not actually paid their subscriptions. You have been warnedr As we move into the new millennium, Council has decided that the Institute should undertake a membership drive. The theme is 2000 for 2000. As you can see above, the membership currently stands at just over 1400 members. We therefore only need less than half the current members to enrol one extra member to reach our target. So why not see if you can all surprise me and everybody enrol one extra member. We might even raise the memberContext65 March 2000
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