Revision of the Committee Structure

EVERY FOUR YEARS THE COUNCIL MEETS TO REVIEW THE WORK OF THE KAS COMMITTEES AT A SPECIAL MEETING.

This year the meeting in January created one new committee and changed the remit of the Membership Committee to be replaced as the Communications Committee. The Communications Committee has a broader brief, to coordinate membership matters, websites, social networking, newsletters, public relations, publicity and any other appropriate subjects, including branding. One of the first tasks will be to review the Society website and create some new front pages. The website has been very successful, but all those involved, both Officers and volunteers, agree that it is time to redesign it and exploit more fully the potential of the Internet.

It was also agreed by Council that a new committee should be established to focus on Community History and Archaeology, the largest growth area in British archaeology over the last decade. This Community Committee will meet in late summer to begin the work of encouraging more participation in ‘doing history and archaeology’. President Ian Coulson has stressed the importance of encouraging participation at all levels and the Committee will look at how this can best be done across the county.

The Council is also very supportive of a new strategy to develop expert groups of members. The intention is to offer training in specialist areas such as surveying and finds work so that members can contribute to projects in the county. This initiative is in its early stages but the work by the Hon. Curator in Sittingbourne and Folkestone has shown that trained volunteers can make an enormous contribution to archaeology on site and in post excavation work.