AGM, Dumfries and New Abbey weekend

26 Sep

AGM, Dumfries and New Abbey weekend

The 68th AGM of The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland will be held on Saturday 26 October at 2.00pm, in person at Shambellie House.

The business of the AGM will be followed by a tour of Shambellie House.

A number of other events have been planned over this weekend, starting with a walking tour of Dumfries town centre on Saturday morning and finishing with visits to three interesting properties in the vicinity of Biggar on Sunday.  For the latest details on the programme, please click here.  If you plan to come without a car, please email the National Office for help with car-sharing arrangements.

AGENDA

1. Apologies
2. Minutes of the 67th Annual General Meeting
vote:  “that the Minutes of the 67th AGM are approved”
3.   President’s remarks
4.   Chairman’s report
5.   Treasurer’s report on year ended 31 March 2024
6.   Elections
vote: “that the nominations to Council are approved”
7.   Ordinary resolution:
vote:  “that Messrs Henderson Loggie be re-appointed as Independent Examiners for the year to 31 March 2025”
8.   Any other competent business

 

Further details

5. Our Annual Report and Financial Statements were independently examined, approved by the Trustees, and signed on 30 September 2024.  Full copies can be downloaded, free of charge, from the Companies House website or obtained from the Treasurer at the National Office.

6. Elections:

Sam Gallacher and Rory Lamb are standing for election for the first time.

Martin Robertson, a former Chairman of the AHSS, is standing for election to the Council after a break of two years.

Sarah Kettles and Iain Wotherspoon have each served a first term of three years and are standing for re-election.

Sam Gallacher is Director of Scottish Historic Buildings Trust. Former Keeper of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.  For six years he worked for the National Trust for Scotland managing properties and projects across southern and western Scotland, including Broughton House in Kirkcudbright (resulting in a chapter published on E.A. Hornel’s interventions to the building made with architect John Keppie), and oversaw the final stages of the restoration of Alexander Thomson’s Holmwood House in Glasgow. He is passionate about countering threats to Scotland’s architectural heritage.

Rory Lamb is an architectural historian with a particular interest in British architecture in the long-eighteenth century. He was awarded his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 2024 for his research on the townhouses of Scots in Georgian London and presented this research as part of the AHSS Strathclyde Group’s last winter lecture series. Rory is currently a conservation officer with Fife Council, having worked for two years as an assistant heritage consultant with Alastair Coey Architects in Belfast, and having spent two periods volunteering with the Forth and Borders Cases Panel.

Martin Robertson is an Architectural Historian who worked for many years in the government historic buildings service as a Principal Inspector and then for English Heritage before becoming a consultant doing much work for Cadw and for local authorities and private owners in the West Country from his home in Bath. Now retired, he has lived in Scotland since 2006 where he has volunteered with various heritage charities including the AHSS, of which he was Chairman until October 2022, and the Dumfries & Galloway Archives Centre.

Sarah Kettles has been actively involved in Scotland’s heritage sector for over 20 years.  She holds an MSc in European Urban Conservation from the University of Dundee (2002).  Since then she has worked as a self-employed heritage consultant on a wide range of heritage projects across Scotland including commissions for HES on Conservation Area Regeneration Schemes and the Traditional Buildings Health Check scheme.  She is currently delivering the My Place Mentoring Scheme for the Scottish Civic Trust using her skills in community engagement, grant funding applications and project development, assisting groups in delivering their heritage projects.

Iain Wotherspoon was born and brought up in Ayrshire then moved to Glasgow to study at the University of Glasgow (MA (Hons) English and Drama).  After more than 40 years working as a professional actor, he is now semi-retired.  With a strong interest in local history and architecture, he is a past Treasurer of the Friends of Glasgow West and served on their Planning Applications Group.  He is a long-standing member, now convenor, of the AHSS Strathclyde Cases Panel and a past Strathclyde Group Chairman.

 

Registration
Please register your attendance at the AGM by emailing nationaloffice@ahss.org.uk

Questions
If you would like to ask a question at the AGM, please submit it in advance to  nationaloffice@ahss.org.uk by Monday 24 October.

 

 

 

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