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Part of FAME’s Health & Safety strategy is to assemble industry injury and accident data to allow organisations to benchmark their performance against the sector. We hope this data will provide a better picture of Health and Safety across our sector and may assist with the development of preventative measures and improved ways of working. […]

The first of the FAME webinar series ran today, ‘Working with COVID restrictions in Archaeology’. We are very grateful to L-P Archaeology for contributing to it. We also recorded aspects of it that you can view. We have excluded the house keeping from the video and have just put up the presentation. It is also […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A new publication supported by FAME / ALGAO members in Scotland has been published, Development-led Archaeology in Scotland and Covid-19. This publication has brought together contributors from across Scotland, involved in both the commercial and curatorial sides of development-led archaeology to show the sector’s resilience in the face of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

As Chair of FAME I am very pleased to present the results of the 2018-19 State of the Archaeological Market Survey. Since 2008 the data from this annual survey have provided the foundation for analysis of the marketplace and the health of archaeological commercial practice, and has been used to extrapolate the contribution that commercial […]

FAME is a member of the Heritage Alliance. Here is there most recent update on various hertiage issues, though mainly on COVID-19: Some particular points to note from today include: DCMS is pressing for clarity on when the heritage sector and visitor economy guidance will be released. Equally they are pressing for a clear view […]