Trust AGM 2024

The Trust’s 82nd Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 6 June, 7-9 pm in Elvet Riverside ER140, New Elvet.

The meeting is also available via Zoom and you can request a Zoom link by emailing

AGENDA

  1. Welcome and apologies for absence
  2. Minutes of the 81st Annual General Meeting
  3. Matter arising from the Minutes
  4. Report of the Trustees and the Presentation of Accounts for the period ended 7 April 2024
  5. Appointment of the Honorary Officers of the Trust
  6. Appointment of Trustees
  7. Secretary’s Report
  8. Chairman’s remarks.
  9. Any other business

TALK

Our speaker at the AGM this year will be Professor Robin Coningham, UNESCO’s 2014 Chair on Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham. Robin will speak at 8 pm and his title will be:
What Will The UK’S Ratification of UNESCO’S 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Mean For The City and County of Durham

Details of talk

Trust AGM and lecture

What Will the UK’s Ratification of Unesco’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Mean for the City and County of Durham?

Professor Robin Coningham, UNESCO’s 2014 Chair on Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham

City of Durham Trust AGM and Lecture Thursday 6th June 2024
AGM 7pm
Lecture 8pm
Elvet Riverside, Room ER140

Twenty-one years after its launch, the UK Government will ratify the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on 7th June 2024, with the intention of protecting “the crafts, practices, and traditions which are recognised as being key part of national life and providing a sense of identity to communities across the UK” (gov.uk23/12/23).

While the results of the recent public consultation designed to inform UK’s approach to creating a new register for traditions valued by communities up and down the country are awaited, this presentation will discuss the 2003 Convention, and consider what it might mean for the city and county of Durham.

As well as holding UNESCO’s 2014 Chair on Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, Professor Robin Coningham is also the Chair of Early Medieval Archaeology and is Associate Director (World Heritage) in Durham’s Institute of Mediaeval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) and Co-Director of Durham’s MA International Cultural Heritage Management programme in the Department of Archaeology.

Further details about the AGM will be announced in an additional post.

Trust AGM 2023

This year the AGM of the City of Durham Trust will be held on Tuesday 31 October, 7-9 pm in Elvet Riverside ER140, New Elvet.

It is planned to make the meeting available via Zoom. To request a link please email .

Our speaker will be Professor Karen O’Brien, Vice Chancellor of Durham University, who will speak at 8pm about the relationship between the City and the University. Her talk is entitled “The Built Life of a University in its City: Durham University Now and in the Future”.

Detailed agenda, accounts and minutes of the last AGM can be found in the Annual Review.

Agenda

  1. Welcome and apologies for absence
  2. Minutes of the 80th Annual General Meeting (Saturday 1 October 2022)
  3. Matters Arising from the Minutes
  4. Report of the Trustees and Presentation of Accounts of the Trust for the period ended 7 April 2023
  5. Appointment of Trustees
  6. Appointment of the Honorary Officers of the Trust
  7. Honorary Secretary’s Report
  8. Chairman’s Remarks
  9. Any other business which might be brought forward by members

Contact the Chair before the meeting at g if you have items of any other business or interest in applying to be a trustee.

Trust AGM 2022 – Minutes

The 80th Annual General Meeting of the City of Durham Trust was held in the Assembly Rooms Theatre, North Bailey, on Saturday 1 October 2022 commencing at 14.00.

The minutes of the AGM have now been approved by the Trustees and are attached below.

Trust AGM: 1st October 2022

The 80th Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 1 October at 2.00 pm, in the Assembly Rooms Theatre 40 North Bailey. To attend the meeting via Zoom instead, please request a link by emailing .

Interested in becoming a Trustee and engaging with us on the future of the City? Contact our chairman in advance of the meeting on .

At the start of the meeting the Trust’s Architectural Award for 2021/2022 will be presented to Maya Polenz, “Head of Property” at Durham Cathedral, in recognition of the Cathedral’s superb new glazed lobbies.

Agenda

After the formal agenda John Pendlebury, Professor of Urban Conservation at Newcastle University, will present a talk about Thomas Sharp, the town planner and author of Cathedral City – A Plan for Durham.

There will be a reception in Durham Museum after the AGM lecture. This offers a chance to view the exhibition, “How Historic Durham Survived the 20th Century”.