NOTICES
NOTICES MEETINGS 2021 BSBI Annual General Meeting
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nside this issue of BSBI News you should find a flyer with an invitation to attend the 2021 BSBI Annual General Meeting (AGM). It will be held at 7.15 pm on Friday 19 November 2021. The AGM will be preceded by talks from 6.00 pm. The talks and AGM will be held electronically because of ongoing uncertainties of the Covid-19 pandemic and I am sure that you will accept this exceptional decision based upon health and safety risk. There will be one link to join the meeting on Friday 19 November and this will be made available after you register to attend. Details will be posted on the BSBI website: www.bsbi.org/annual-generalmeeting. You may join the meeting when you wish, but only BSBI members are eligible to vote in the AGM. Any member interested in becoming a Trustee may find more information on the BSBI website.
Steve Gater
BSBI Company Secretary
BSBI Annual Exhibition Meeting 2021
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his year’s Annual Exhibition Meeting will be held on Saturday 20 November and it will once again be a virtual event, hosted via Zoom and a dedicated AEM micro-site. Find out more in the flyer (inside this issue of BSBI News) which sets out the draft programme for the day. We have some great talks lined up for you, including several botanical authors and a session where speakers from organisations such as the National Trust, Natural England and the Forestry Commission are invited to tell us how BSBI data and interpretation are being used to help address biodiversity loss and climate change. We’ll also have a panel discussion and virtual exhibits – it should be a great day! You’ll need to register for the event and you can do this, and book exhibitor space, via the BSBI website: www.bsbi.org/annual-exhibition-meeting.
Louise Marsh
BSBI Communications Officer louise.marsh@bsbi.org
Scottish Botanists’ Conference 2021
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his year’s Scottish Botanists’ Conference will take place on Saturday 6 November and will be online only. The draft programme includes talks on two of Scotland’s most important and iconic National
Nature Reserves. Ian Sargent, NatureScot Nature Reserves Manager will talk about Beinn Eighe, the UK’s first National Nature Reserve, currently celebrating its 70th anniversary; and Sarah Watts, Conservation Manager at Corrour, will tell us about 40 years of rare plant monitoring on Ben Lawers. There will also be a variety of short talks, a selection of virtual exhibitions and posters, the Scottish AGM and the photographic competition. For fuller details see the flyer inside this issue of BSBI News. You’ll need to register for the event and you can do this, and book exhibitor space, via the BSBI website: www.bsbi.org/scottish-annual-meeting.
Jim McIntosh
BSBI Scotland Officer
Field Meetings Update
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t was with great excitement that the field meetings programme restarted in May, when a group of beginners met at Trumpington Meadows. A full account of the meeting will appear in the 2022 Yearbook, as will accounts of the others that managed to go ahead as Covid lockdowns relaxed. By the time you read this, the main meetings programme will be over, but local meetings may well still be taking place. Do take part in one if you can, as they always produce records of interest as well as introducing people to their local flora. Hopefully those meetings that weren’t able to take place this year will happen in 2022 and your country field meetings secretary would welcome offers of meetings for the future. Meetings can be half day to week long events and cover anything from an elementary introduction for beginners to detailed workshops on a single genus. Do get in touch if you would like help in organising a meeting or have a look through the guidance for leaders on the BSBI meetings web page. We plan to arrange a few virtual meetings over the winter period. These will be held by Zoom and details will be advertised in the BSBI eNewsletter and on the BSBI web pages. We would like to encourage members who don’t currently make use of electronic communication systems to consider trying them out – you are missing out on receiving a lot of interesting information!
Jonathan Shanklin
Hon. Field Meetings Secretary fieldmeetings@bsbi.org
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