2024 April Newsletter - click to download to see details of our latest news including MEET US FOR A COFFEE and our member's events/talks.
Well I have officially been doing this job for a year. March saw us hold my first AGM and thanks to everyone who came along and supported the whole committee by attending. As AGMs go it went well and we even gained two new committee members and no resignations! The rest of the day was filled with an exceptional show from our members, The Fitzhugh Library team and their Hannah Hauxwell exhibition.
The Fitzhugh Library Middleton-in-Teesdale
The public attendance exceeded our expectation and we were heartened to find many of the visitors had found out about it from our new Facebook presence.
Reviving Facebook for the Forum had been one of our key tasks for 2023 and has certainly made many more folks aware of the Forum. Hopefully it will bring new members and refresh ideas for the future. We have plans for this year to maintain the drive for modernising whilst retaining the best of our past, you would expect no less from folks interested in history. We all need to have a dig around our area and see what we uncover whether just old files from work our groups have done or seeking to explore somewhere new in our landscape. Our countryside is at risk from the housing developers and the Carbon offsetting tree planters changing arable farming land into new short-lived forests. Can we trust them to put our history before their profits?
Be vigilant and preserve our past.
MEET US FOR A COFFEE
You may remember, a few years ago we organised regional coffee meetings to give our member groups the opportunity to meet face-to-face with Forum committee members so that they could tell us what they wanted from the Forum and we could ask how we were doing on a number of our initiatives. These were so successful, we are reinstating the exercise once again.
We have organised meetings at four venues across the County—north, south, central and west and of course, you are welcome to attend any of them, and don’t forget, we buy the coffee!!
We are very interested in meeting our groups and hearing what you have to say. Our committee members will be at the following venues on the dates/times indicated:
Your contributions at these meetings will inform our priorities over the next few months.
A voluntary association of local history societies and groups, heritage organisations and individuals interested in sharing and promoting the history and heritage of County Durham.
Online talks will begin again in September.
17th Sep - The Woman in Question - Tony Nicholson - talks will begin at 7.00pm with login available from 6.40pm. We will send a link for the Zoom meeting to a representative of every group and each individual CDFHH member. It is then up to you to resend that link to all your group members. Click to view our 2024 programme, also other events.
Donnison School Heritage Centre in Sunderland - 2024 Programme of events.
Bowes Museum have announced a major Cornish/Lowry exhibition from July 2024 - for more details click link Cornish/Lowry exhibition
Auckland Project Group Visits For details of group visits click here.
As Zoom has provided the Forum with a very effective way of keeping in touch with our members, we have decided to make our annual Zoom subscription available for Forum members to host their own Zoom meetings or talks. In order to bring this about, we have devised a free booking system, for details go to Book Zoom Group Meeting