28th September 2008, 09:24 PM
kevin, point taken. I've tried to edit the original post to make it more general, but the system won't let me.
I get your point that if a charity's remit is 'archaeology' then its totally appropriate for it to spend most of its funds on, essentially, itself. The thing is a lot of the archaeological charities are 'educational', but as diggers etc we don't get to see a lot of this in practice. Certainly most units don't seem to invest a lot of energy in 'educating' i.e. training, their staff!
It turns out that I have worked for one of these charities, without actually realising it! That says something, no?
I get your point that if a charity's remit is 'archaeology' then its totally appropriate for it to spend most of its funds on, essentially, itself. The thing is a lot of the archaeological charities are 'educational', but as diggers etc we don't get to see a lot of this in practice. Certainly most units don't seem to invest a lot of energy in 'educating' i.e. training, their staff!
It turns out that I have worked for one of these charities, without actually realising it! That says something, no?