Okay, so it looks as though the idea of a day course has finally sprung to life...
I’ll start looking at venue prices and then we can get a bit further into deciding the format: but off the top of my head I’m thinking:
10.00 Meet up, coffee, icebreaker
11.00 Talk
12.00 Break for lunch
12.45 Brickwall session
1.45 Coffee
2.00 Archive tour
3.30 Coffee, followed by free time in archive
If we go for a room at the archive, it would save time traipsing across the city centre and currently would cost £60/£80 if we use the room for a half day - if we need it for a full day then the cost would be £100/120: a speaker would cost possibly a max of £50.00. If we can count on 10 people, the max cost per person would be £17.00. We’d need to provide our own lunches, but there is a little coffee room.
Now, I can think of two speakers I could contact who could do us a talk on some aspect of local history – or would you prefer me to pontificate on something? And if the latter, can I have some ideas on what you would like me to talk about? I do teach Family History, but mainly at beginner/intermediate level.
Ideas please...
Cati
