Welcome to Liz Larvor, new Trustee and Secretary
I’ve been a member at EARM since 2016 now, I’ve always had
an interest in helping the organisation in any way that I can. From
photography, to getting my hands filthy on the odd occasion in the resto shed.
In more recent years I’ve assisted the board of trustees with administrative
tasks and acting as N7 trustee liaison as part of the restoration project.
Using my background in audit risk management I’ve challenged the way we do
things and I’d like to think that I’ve bought about some changes
At the May trustees meeting I was co-opted in as trustee to take over from Mike Stanbury as Museum Secretary, along with taking on some of the marketing responsibilities from Mark Cornell. I look forward to seeing where the museum goes in the future.
As Liz takes on new responsibilities, the long service given by Mike Stanbury must be recorded. To record Board decisions at meetings is the prime responsibility of a secretary, these must now number in the hundreds over decades in the past. At times it may be pleasurable to record a year of good progress, but at other times more challenging replies have been composed for AGMs and other bodies needing annual reports. Less welcome would-be official notifications to the museum of a legal kind from authorities, as Secretary these have received and responded to.
Mike looking back is particularly pleased to receive acknowledgement from the former Railway Inspectorate, on the quality of his response when an Exemption to railway safety case working was being progressed, these apply to smaller preserved railways. Mike has served the museum admirably and his retirement from these responsibilities goes with thanks, as it truly well deserved, from the museum membership.
