events for members

background – life before CBA London

SCOLACounty concernsMemorandum of Understanding –

cooperation not competition (signed 2012)

2008: CBA London exists for…

educationparticipationadvocacy

but…getting started isn’t

easy

events to the rescue

Challenge:how to encourage potential membership toknow we existwant to participatelearn more about what’s under Londonget concerned about potential threats

maybe we could…do something interesting

2009: we’ve got resources

trustees with contacts, good will and ideasMOLA, PCA, EH, SAL, TDP, UCL/IOA,

LA…plenty going ona few willing organisersI know, let’s put on our own show…

event no 1: visit to Syon Park excavations

July 2009

event no 2: visit to Syon Park excavations

July 2010

And no 3 – Strand on the Green foreshore with TDP

+ London Archaeological Forum

Nov 2010New format:mixed groupmini talksissuestwice yearlyshort + pub

…and away it goes…

July 2011 Greenwich day – foreshore, Tudor palace,

Roman temple, Anglo Saxon burial mounds – and a brewery

fun on the foreshore – City of London

Aug 2011

excavation in action – Scadbury manor house

Aug 2011ODAS

2012

Roman coin workshop

plus

difficult to access sites:Billingsgate Bath HouseandSpitalfields Charnel House – on Halloween… with pumpkins and spiders and HM Inspector of Ancient Monuments

2013 – everybody loves events

British Museum – new gallery siteMoL exhibition visit: Doctors, Dissection and

Resurrection menbehind the scenes at Knole, pre opening –

charge £10Thames Police Museum visitBankside Day – foreshore, Southwark

Cathedral, Winchester Palace, Thameslink discoveries, Bankside Theatres… and a pub

What works…

families – variety and activityhard to access sites attention to detailkeep in touch with participantsfree eventscultivate contacts

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