--- In [email protected], "Richard Fairhurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or there's the other other option which is pretty much what I said at the AGM: volunteer > involvement on a very large scale. > > The National Trust gets 3.1 million volunteer hours every year (I said 2.3 million yesterday: > someone with more up-to-date figures has since corrected me!). Even at minimum wage, > i.e. assuming largely unskilled volunteers, that works out at £18m equivalent. >
I would support that Richard - and, by the way, you did well yesterday in such august company. I was most impressed with a presentation made at the NCA meeting in Moira last Sunday by Ed Moss, BW's new volunteer coordinator. I think BW have recognised the point you make but they have a long way to go to get beyond the barrier they are creating for themselves with the current fixation on H&S. I am sure the subject of volunteers will come up at our strategy meeting on Saturday if only because we have a presentation from Brian Kingshott, Chair of the Lichfield and Hatherton Canal Restoration Trust and they, of course, are a prime example of how to get the best use of volunteers. Cheers Will
