Post-Charter depression and how to avoid it
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 05/08/2015

Alastair McCapra, Chief Executive, CIPR

The number of royal charters granted to professional bodies and learned societies has never been higher – making those who don’t have one feel  ever more pressured.  Working towards achieving chartered status can take years of planning and preparation, and involve some nasty internal feuds.  Yet is quite common for organisations which have achieved chartered status to experience a ‘hangover’ and perhaps to wonder why they ever bothered becoming chartered in the first place.  The journey to chartership is often buoyed up with mirages, the passage leaves you feeling seasick, and the attractions of the new port are often disappointing. 

Alastair McCapra will talk about some of the issues faced by other organisations in obtaining their chartered status.  He will also suggest ways that these problems can be overcome to ensure that the newly-chartered professional body is able to deliver on the promise that chartership originally offered. 

Alastair is Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and was previously Chief Executive of the Landscape Institute and the Institute of Conservation.  He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a board member of Wikimedia UK, the charity that promotes the sharing of knowledge on Wikipedia and its sister projects.