Author: Doug Rocks-Macqueen

FAME, with funding from Historic England, will be running a series of webinars throughout the year. These webinars will be focusing on the business and project management aspects of archaeology. They are open to anyone but some have limited spaces.

Accessibility – transcripts and captions will be made available for the presentation aspect of the webinars. Made possible with Historic England funding.

UPDATE – if you can not attend on the date and time we have added a second set of tickets where you can sign up to receive a link to the recorded presentation(s).

Here are some details and links to register for the first six webinars, more will be added in the future:

Webinar 1: Working with COVID restrictions in Archaeology. A review of the Social Distancing for Archaeology (SoDA) Toolkit – a free and open toolkit to help archaeologists enact social distancing.

Date: 12pm, 30^th September

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122231741429

Who is this for: Everyone.

 

Webinar 2: Collateral Warranties. A webinar on collateral warranties, emphasising that collateral warranties are new contracts with third parties. Participants will be informed about the measures available to mitigate risk and the fundamental importance of limiting liability in such agreements.

Date: 3pm, 7^th October

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122234511715

Who is this for: Everyone.

 

Webinar 3: Physical Archives. A webinar on planning for handling the physical archive aspect of projects.

Date: 12pm, 21^st October

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122236844693

Who is this for: This is for project designers e.g. project managers, project planners, grant writers, and holders of budgets. But open to anyone. Especially, if you are interested in one day creating and running your own projects.

 

Webinar 4: Archaeology, access and digital data: a workshop for managers. The workshop brings together teams working on two HE-funded projects: Dig Digital, creating guidance for everyday archaeological data management and training workshops designed to support the rollout of the new OASIS to help create a self-sustaining support community. With new tools, resources and training already accessible and others on the way, now is a great time to get to grips with what you and your project teams need to know about digital data management.

Date: 2-4pm, 22^nd  October

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122238108473

Who is this for: Limited 20. This workshop is aimed at those managing operations, budgets, projects or teams dealing with digital data management. The workshop is endorsed by CIfA and will outlined relevant learning outcomes to support two hours of CPD.

 

Webinar 5: Managing Risk in Archaeology. The basics of how to manage financial risks in archaeology. Client won’t pay, project has fallen through, etc. – the what, why, how, etc. of managing those risks.

Register:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122241647057

Date: 10:30am, 28^th October

Who is this for: Everyone.

 

Webinar 6: Duty of Care When Providing Services. A webinar considering the important distinction between the ‘duty of care’ required in providing (a) services or (b) goods.  Goods fall under a ‘fit for purpose’ requirement of the Sale of Goods Act. Whereas provision of services falls under a requirement for ‘reasonable skill and care’ under the Supply of Goods and Services Act. These standards are fundamentally different and the webinar will explain why and how consultants giving advice or providing designs should make sure that their contract  gets this right.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/122242124485

Date: 12pm, 4^th November

Who is this for: Everyone.

Webinar 7: Upskill your heritage workforce in England. Apprenticeships – They’re not just for school leavers! This webinar will take a look at the new suite of apprenticeships that have been designed specifically for working in the historic environment and will discuss how these can be utilised as a cost effective way for employers to up-skill their existing staff and diversify their workforce. We will discuss what a modern apprenticeship in England is, what it costs and how some are already being used in practice.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/upskill-your-heritage-workforce-in-england-tickets-125487369099

Date: 12pm, 11^th November

Who is this for: Everyone.

Webinar 8: Seeing Red – menstrual health and hygiene in the heritage workplace. This webinar will share best practice for handling menstrual health and hygiene on sites, equip staff with the confidence to talk about periods to site management, and for site management to deal appropriately with menstruation on sites.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seeing-red-menstrual-health-and-hygiene-in-the-heritage-workplace-tickets-125490845497

Date: 12pm, 18^th November

Who is this for: Everyone.

CIfA, working with FAME and funded by Historic England will be undertaking a project to develop and implement strategic improvements in the practice of archaeological field evaluation in England by

• working with stakeholders to develop and document a shared understanding of current evaluation practice, constraints and goals in the context of the NPPF
• determining which factors are most important in selecting appropriate and proportionate strategies for archaeological field evaluation in England, with a particular focus on sampling (trial trenching)
• identifying case studies from a representative range of chronologies, geologies and locations in England, with simple comparisons drawn between what was forecast at evaluation and what was found during subsequent archaeological investigation

The main focus of the project will be on sampling (trial trenching) in advance of minerals extraction, house-building and infrastructure development, where the need for validation and greater consensus on effective and proportionate evaluation strategies is particularly urgent. Recommendations for a second stage of work (EVALS2) to strengthen the evidence base to support ongoing sector confidence in future advice and continual improvement in archaeological evaluation practice will be made. Building on the research available, this second stage (not currently funded) is also envisaged to include additional, in-depth modelling of alternative evaluation strategies where required.

Currently there is a call for expression of interest to delivery part of this project (deadline September 30th)

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The project will be managed by a Project Executive Board comprising CIfA, FAME and Historic England, advised by a Project Advisory Group which will include representatives from the minerals, housing and infrastructure sectors and from the Association of Local Government Archaeologists (ALGAO). Joining them on the Project Advisory Group will be a researcher at the University of Brighton undertaking a four-year doctoral research project into evaluation methodologies through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology(SEAHA), in collaboration with Historic England and Trent & Peak Archaeology. The Project Advisory Group will meet around six times during the course of the projects which will also be guided by four wider stakeholder consultation workshops. All meetings are scheduled to take place via online video conferencing. For more information about this project, please contact kate.geary@archaeologists.net

The 2020 FAME was meant to take place in June of this year but was postponed because of COVID. However, the situation has not improved enough for us to have our AGM in York with the current social distancing rules in place and according to statues it needs to occur this month. As such, we will be having a digital AGM. Please see the details below

FAME 2020 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

 Monday 28^th September 2020, 3.00pm

Online via Zoom

Agenda

1. Apologies

2. Register of approved voting members and declaration of quorum

3. Minutes of the 2019 AGM

4. Report from the Chair

5. Treasurer’s report

6. Chief Executive’s report

7. Election of members of the Board of Directors

The following Directors have resigned:
• Gill Hey (Oxford Archaeology)

The following have retired by rotation and have been nominated for re-election
• Tim Malim (SLR Consulting)
• Chris Brayne (Wessex Archaeology)
• Joanna Caruth (Cotswold Archaeology)

The following has been appointed by resolution of the other Directors during the year prior to this AGM, and has been nominated for election
• Tim Neighbour (CFA Archaeology)

8. Special Resolution
The members of the Company who at the date of this resolution are entitled to attend and vote at general meetings of the Company, hereby resolve upon the following resolution:
THAT the existing articles of association be modified to accommodate
a) General minor changes throughout the Articles – different document histories had led to minor changes, FAME Revised Articles 031219 presented have lost apostrophes etc and formatting has been made consistent.
b) Articles also currently state that Directors cannot nominate replacements to attend Board meetings in their place. By precedent, we have been doing this for some time. Amendment to Article 27 will allow a replacement to attend, while the Director remains responsible for decisions taken on their behalf.
Article 27

A director may not appoint an alternate director or anyone other nominated individual to act on his or her behalf at meetings of the directors.
as specified in the attached
FAME Articles of Association 031219

9. Ordinary Resolution
The members of the Company who at the date of this resolution are entitled to attend and vote at general meetings of the Company, hereby resolve upon the following resolution:
THAT the existing Rules be modified to accommodate changes regarding
a) specifying that membership is ratified by the Board.
b) solo operator membership
c) the numbers of members of the Board

Membership
Membership of the Company shall be conferred upon all such eligible organizations who have indicated in writing their desire to join, subject to ratification approval by the Board. Eligibility is defined by the following criteria: organizations that are a business with two or more registered employees, legally constituted and registered with the appropriate national tax authorities, with written contracts for staff, pension arrangements, health and safety policies and procedures, and issues pay advice slips at regular intervals.
…
The Board may offer “Affiliated Membership” to those individuals or organisations who do not fully meet membership criteria, subject to ratification at the next Annual General Meeting. Affiliated Members receive Company papers, but are not entitled to vote.

Management Board
There shall be a Management Board with a minimum of eight members and a maximum of twelve members, including a Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary and Treasurer, elected by the Annual General Meeting. At the end of each year, one third of the members of the Board (up to four) shall retire in rotation and will be eligible for re-election for the ensuing year. The Board shall have the power to co-opt to fill casual vacancies in its membership.
as specified in the attached
FAME Rules 031219

10. Items for information and discussion

11. AOB