News
FBA 2010 course programme
Please visit the FBA website for a full list of courses and booking form
Cave Life Leaflet
A new guide to cave life in Britain has been written by Lee Knight (Hypogean Crustacea Recording Scheme) and produced by the FBA and is available to download as a PDF. If you would like any further information about recording cave life please contact Lee (lee.knight@talk21.com).
Launch of the Freshwater Recorders and Schemes Funding Programme
The purpose of the programme is to provide some financial support for freshwater recorders towards costs such as travel expenses, the purchase of sampling equipment, and the production of promotional materials such as newsletters. If you would like to find out more about the programme go to Funding Programme
Workshop (7 November 2006)
On 7th November 2006 a workshop was held to find out the priorities of support for freshwater recorders and schemes. The day was very well received and we even managed to fit in some sampling in Lake Windermere.
A number of priorities were identified:
Driving priority: get people recording
This requires various support:
- Promotion, awareness raising
- Introductory materials (& coursesĪ)
- Training in volunteer support (management)
- Tools to make recording easy:
- How to guides
- Easy online & offline submission & feedback
- Web presence
- Publishing
Fostering a recorders’ community to
- Share knowledge
- Provide mutual support
- Provide a common voice (e.g. publicity campaigns, funding)
Funding
- Small grants for travel expenses, etc.
- Information for groups of schemes to go for larger funding.
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| Attendees of the workshop |