4th August 2008, 09:16 AM
The issue of the two events is really not that important though, as this has been shown to have good reason and be well organised.
My question has been, and will remain, is there any point having both a national organisation and a Scottish one? (see previous reference to ven diagrams etc) It would be like having no EH but a 'British Heritage' but then still having Cadw, HS any any others. Overly beureacratic and arguably tokenistic.
Why could the same things not be achieved with one organisation - just have the events at different times of year, or if people really preferred separate organisations.
Another issue is the regional groups - I assume that as there is a CSA there is no regional group for Scotland within the CBA. (There may be a separate list of regional groups in Scotland, I don't know). However, the regional group organisation seemed to be entirely random, especially in the north and north-west of England. The north-west group is extremely active and produces lots of extremely good publications. The north group is seemingly non-existant and doesn't even manage to produce a newsletter. Although some genius did think of making the north group cover both the north-east and Cumbria, despite the fact that there is a not inconsiderable distance between the two, which doesn't help with committee meetings I would imagine.
This too smacks of an organisation that is far from national in its coverage, and also means that it is, and I hate to use the expression, a bit of a post-code lottery. If you join the north-west group you get extra newsletters and publications, if you join the north, nothing (although that may have changed recently). Hardly seems very fair when the membership is the same.
What's the situation with membership of the CSA?
My question has been, and will remain, is there any point having both a national organisation and a Scottish one? (see previous reference to ven diagrams etc) It would be like having no EH but a 'British Heritage' but then still having Cadw, HS any any others. Overly beureacratic and arguably tokenistic.
Why could the same things not be achieved with one organisation - just have the events at different times of year, or if people really preferred separate organisations.
Another issue is the regional groups - I assume that as there is a CSA there is no regional group for Scotland within the CBA. (There may be a separate list of regional groups in Scotland, I don't know). However, the regional group organisation seemed to be entirely random, especially in the north and north-west of England. The north-west group is extremely active and produces lots of extremely good publications. The north group is seemingly non-existant and doesn't even manage to produce a newsletter. Although some genius did think of making the north group cover both the north-east and Cumbria, despite the fact that there is a not inconsiderable distance between the two, which doesn't help with committee meetings I would imagine.
This too smacks of an organisation that is far from national in its coverage, and also means that it is, and I hate to use the expression, a bit of a post-code lottery. If you join the north-west group you get extra newsletters and publications, if you join the north, nothing (although that may have changed recently). Hardly seems very fair when the membership is the same.
What's the situation with membership of the CSA?