FRIENDS OF CORSHAM AREA HERITAGE CENTRE LAUNCHED

09/03/2012

 
The future of the CADT’s combined Area Heritage & Information Centre is uncertain at this time – to say the least. In the past it has been maintained by the funding it has received from our local councils, where the prime interest has been in supporting tourism. In this respect, the traditional TIC function has taken centre stage.  

Things have changed.  It is now clear that the Corsham Area Heritage Centre must be developed into a visitor attraction in its own right if we are going to secure the level of grant-support to keep ourselves viable. Evidence of support from the local community is essential if the quest for such funding is to succeed. Hence the formation of a “Friends” group.

Work on this project began in late summer 2011. We now have 60+ signed-up members – a mixture of Individual and Corporates. A committee was appointed in February and its first meeting will take place in March 2012. We’re on our way!

We need more members. We will never have too many of them. Do you take pride in your local history and heritage and want to see it displayed to a wider audience? If you are interested then act now by completing the information form here. You’ll find yourself amongst true “friends of Corsham”.

 

FRIENDS OF THE CORSHAM AREA HERITAGE CENTRE LAUNCHED

08/04/2011

 
A Group has come together to form a support organisation for Corsham Area Heritage Centre, the facility that is co-located with the Corsham Information Centre at Arnold House in Corsham's High Street.  The Group will operate outside of the Corsham Area Development Trust and its Corsham Area Heritage & Information Centre.  It will have its own structure and constitution.

These elements have yet to be put in place.  Instead the emphasis has been on attacting the membership from which officers will be appointed and through whose efforts a range of member-benefits will be developed.  One of the key intentions is to be the source of funding beyond the local authority grants upon which the survival of the Heritage Centre remains to this day - and upon which reliance there must continue to be an expectation, however marginal that might be made to become.

To this end, a recruiting flyer / sign-up form has been devised.  Copies are being located at various sites in and around the Town.  The process is extremely simple.  Registration to be a member requires only the completion of the form, the writing of a cheque to value £20 to cover the first year's membership, and the handing-in of the form and cheque to the CAH&IC at its office in Arnold House, 31 High Street.

The flyer / sign-up form is additiuonally available as a .pdf here, alongside the "Expression of Interest" form which has been there for some weeks.  (This new sign-up form is the natural 'next step' in the process of establishing the Friends.  We thank all of you who have responded to the Expression of Interest invitation.)  The sign-up form can be printed off quite readily.