3 of 7 June 2024 The 1805 Dispatches #24.03 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 recruited an Honorary Clerk: Jude Wilson, who retired from RN and RNR Communications and subsequently became a solicitor, with an interest in the charity itself and its objectives. The complications of charity work and the legal implications behind doing our work correctly will ensure that Jude gets no time to be bored with her new appointment. Welcome aboard and good luck, Jude! RECRUITMENT OF A COMMITTEE OF MEMBERS TO DETERMINE CLUB POLICY ON MARKETING, FUNDRAISING AND ADVERTISING As a CIO, the Club must demonstrate to the Charity Commissioners that its members are contributing to the Club’s charitable projects, and are not simply enjoying the benefits of being a member. This means that fundraising must be even more seriously addressed than hitherto. We therefore invite members with experience of marketing, fundraising, and/or advertising (and some spare time, as well as the wish to actively help!) to put their names forward for possible inclusion in a voluntary committee with the power to reorganise such Club activities. This invitation is open to all members, because under our new Constitution, members and Chairs of such committees do not have to be Trustees of the Club. 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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