News

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Changes for the Group

The RSPB is changing its emphasis and the way it works. Conservation to help all of nature, but particularly birds, is still its overriding goal, but the means of funding and publicising this is changing. Membership recruitment and spreading the word about conservation are now the main priorities for us to tackle locally. Increasingly recruitment events and collections days are being organised at Regional level, so our Group is moving to support these rather than organise events ourselves.
We will still organise collections at supermarkets, but we will attend fewer local shows and no longer sell RSPB sales goods and bric-a-brac at them, restricting ourselves to information and themed money-raising activities.
We will maintain our yearly programme of illustrated lectures as these are our Group's linchpin and the raffle and sale of birdfood will continue to be a part of these evenings.
Field trips will be reduced in number until we find someone to take over from Peter Stoppard in organising the yearly programme of weekend days out and mid-week local walks.
Our committment to school visits and talks to other groups will continue with Norman at the helm.
A programme and three newsletters will still produced each year, this web-site will be maintained and the monthly e-mail will still appear.