Local societies

[Beardstroker]

I'm a member of my home county's society which is one the older and better one's in Britain, although as I no longer live there, the only reason I stil belong to it is for the annual journal, which occasionally contains sites I've worked on as a yoof:face-thinks:

The only other one I've had anything to do with was a district based one in the same county, which was set up by former volunteers at my then workplace, as we were finding more diffiult to accomodate them on site's due to insurance reasons.

It worked quite well for a few years as we ran various research projects for them, but, as with a lot of things, the committee running it changed, we had less time to run their projects and there was a bit of friction with various members who seemed to find it difficult to understand that our priority was not to find projects for them to run, despite it being patiently explained to them over and over again.

I occasonally wonder exactly what the future of a lot of these societies is going to be. It does seem that the majority of their members tend to be middle class and retired with a strong resistance to change, and in a lot of cases, not terribly appealing to younger members.