2 of 6 April 2024 The 1805 Dispatches #24.02 IMPORTANT JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS Founded in 1990, The 1805 Club is an international charitable organisation that commemorates and educates about the history and heritage of the age of sail, during the Georgian era (1714-1837), and the influence this period has played on the maritime world up through the present day. It is registered to the Charity Commission for England and Wales as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO), number 1201272. The Club’s activities encompass: events, publications, projects, research and education about naval history and the lessons to be learnt from it in today’s world. The Club owns a number of valuable databases relating to ships, mariners and monuments of the era and has ambitions to create a single, authoritative virtual museum to house and display its numerous and growing collection of online exhibits – articles; talks; original digital material, including its databases. Through the museum, people across the globe will be able to explore and learn about the topic, and academics will be provided with valuable source material. There will be commercial benefits too, which will support further maintenance of the Club’s resources and provide funding for new projects and research. RECRUITMENT OF CLERK TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE 1805 CLUB Following the Club’s recent transition to a CIO and in the context of its plans for development, the trustees have decided to recruit a Clerk with an interest in the charity itself and its objectives; experience and knowledge of charity law and regulation, and an under-standing of committee work. The Clerk’s duties will include: 1. advising the trustees about the Club's constitution and charity rules and regulations; 2. assisting the Chairman in drawing up the agenda and papers for trustee meetings; 3. preparing minutes and maintaining the minutes register; 4. maintaining the formal registers of trustees and trustees' interests; 5. liaising with other trustees and officers, in particular the Membership Secretary and the Treasurer; 6. organising the order of business for the AGM; 7. filing required documentation to the Charity Commission for England and Wales; 8. keeping a register of the Club’s main contracts and formal correspondence. The Club’s trustees usually meet every two months via Zoom. The post will be of great interest to the right person. The budget contains provision for an annual honorarium of £500. For further information please contact the Treasurer via email – treasurer@1805club.org RECRUITMENT OF A COMMITTEE OF MEMBERS TO DETERMINE CLUB POLICY ON MARKETING, FUNDRAISINGANDADVERTISING As has been mentioned elsewhere, the Club has to demonstrate that the members are contributing to the Club’s charitable projects, and not simply enjoying the benefits of being a member. This means that fundraising has to be more seriously addressed than perhaps it has been hitherto. To this end, we intend to identify members with experience of marketing, fundraising and/or advertising and appoint those suitable, and with some spare time, to a committee with the power to reorganise such Club activities. 1. Marketing refers to publicity for raising membership and for promoting events. 2. Fundraising refers to encouraging donations and finding new income streams. 3. Advertising is double-edged, and refers to both advertising of the Club to the outside world and whether or not the Club’s publications should accept advertising from outside bodies. 4. There is also the matter of how to organise the giving of advice to members, or others, seeking the Club’s expertise in selling their artefacts, such as heirlooms. For further information please contact Kathy Brown via email – kathy.1805club@gmail.com The 1805 Club is a club, the clue is in the name. But what all of us must remember is that the Club is a charity, originally created to find memorials to past naval personnel of the long Georgian period and to try our best to ensure that they be properly remembered. To further this end we also encourage and support research into naval history and find ways to improve its education. None of this is cheap if it is to be done well, and ‘done well’ is the only way to do things. In common with all other charities, we can only fully carry out our promises if we can raise enough funds to do so. In future publications you will see a reminder that there are ways to make a donation, whenever you might find a bit of surplus cash, together with ways to purchase merchandise and secondhand books that have been kindly donated to the Club for the very purpose of fundraising. Give at our website: http://1805club.org/ or use these links: http://bit.ly/1805ClubFlagshipFund or http://thetrafalgarway.org/
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