Will you help your Society? Join the Committee
Give your Society a future by lending a hand as a Committee Member
If you’d like to do more for your Society, why not think about joining the Committee of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society? As at November 2024 we have only seven people on the Committee and to make things work well we need a full complement of 12. And by joining, you will bring to the Committee fresh thinking, different skills and new energy to make your Society better than ever.
To become one of our Committee members, you first need to be an RTFHS member – and then there are a variety of things you could help us with. Here are a couple of ideas:
Be an Events Co-ordinator – and help us find and book venues for our Society Days, liaise with potential speakers/performers and local media and check everyone involved knows what they need to do or bring on the day.
Be a Project Co-ordinator – and help to plan and organise things like typing up parish register finds to add to our website and double-checking indexes.
How and where does the Committee work?
The RTFHS Committee meets three times a year, generally in February, July and November. We hold the February and November meetings by Zoom and the July one in person in Hook, Hampshire.
The meetings run from about 10.30am until 3.30pm with lunch in the middle. You’ll find them friendly and sociable get-togethers. Travel expenses are paid and lunch is provided too.
You’ll also need to be willing to attend the Annual General Meeting – which is held by Zoom – and also to lend a hand at our Society Days. These are held once a year as a “live” event at a location in the UK.
Sounds like something you could do?
For more information or to volunteer to join the RTFHS Committee, please contact the RTFHS Secretary: enquiries[at]rtfhs.org.uk
We are grateful to Robert Clemens for use of his tug of war photograph via Flickr Creative Commons.
This page last updated: 30 November 2024.
