27th August 2012, 01:01 PM
As a client I would need a strong incentive to allow untrained volunteers or staff on a project I was paying for. I would not assume they were cheaper but would worry they would cost me more in the long run. If however it was built into the project design that there would be a volunteer or staff training element and that this was funded by external sources I could tap into then perhaps as a client I would consider it. At the moment there is no incentive for the client or the commercial unit they employ to invest in training or public facing archaeology.