16th March 2011, 02:00 PM
The CBA is one of a number of bodies who have 'genuine links with actual people'...I couldn't say they are the ONLY body.....and I doubt they have more members than EH or the National Trusts. Infact they claim 6000 'general' members and 600 affiliated bodies compared to 3.7 million NT members and 600,000 EH members.
I suspect one of the problems with the CBA is that they actually lack very much contact with the 'real' public, largely because they have concentrated on their perceived raison d'etre for all these years and left EH and the National Trust and the IfA to get on with theirs. In fact until not many years ago it was impossible to join the CBA as a member of the public, you could only 'join' through affiliating an exsiting body.
I suspect one of the problems with the CBA is that they actually lack very much contact with the 'real' public, largely because they have concentrated on their perceived raison d'etre for all these years and left EH and the National Trust and the IfA to get on with theirs. In fact until not many years ago it was impossible to join the CBA as a member of the public, you could only 'join' through affiliating an exsiting body.
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