Please don't ignore this debate ensure those with Mining Interests have
their say

The Future of British Caving

The following document will be of interest to some on Mining History who are
involved in mine exploration please ensure that the voice of Mine explorers
is included in the debate it is all too often overlooked through ignorance
rather than lack of interest

Mike
WWW.moorebooks.co.uk
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Subject: The Future of British Caving


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> THE FUTURE OF BRITISH CAVING
>
> The document with this portentous title that was produced following the
meeting in January was discussed at the NCA AGM in June. Little feedback had
been received from the membership about it but the AGM was in broad
agreement with the approach that had been taken in January and wished to
arrange for further work to be carried out.
>
> Some work, on the financial aspects of our various organisations has
already been carried out by Jon Roberts, the Treasurer of the CSCC and he
will continue with this. However, it was agreed that discussions need to be
held on how we tackle the other "function areas" that were listed at the
January meeting. These are:
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> 1 Policy and resources (central functions that should be self-evident).
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> 2 Meetings (including the organisation of the annual conference and the
Cavers' Fair).
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> 3 Publishing and Library (how information and news are disseminated to
cavers and what resources we can provide for archiving and library
functions).
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> 4 Administration, Insurance and Legal (what services do cavers want under
these headings and who should provide them).
>
> 5 Technical and Training (currently the roles of two of the NCA's
committees - the AGM had already agreed to take a long hard look at the
funding of the current training scheme).
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> 6 Conservation and Access (fundamental issues for all cavers: who should
provide information, at what level should policy be made, etc?).
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> To these were added two more:
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> 7 Cave Science and Research (how can we support these areas, what
relationships should be have with the academic institutions?).
>
> 8 International (how we relate to cavers and caving organisations in other
countries and to supra-national bodies).
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>
> It would be virtually impossible to set up and run meetings on all these
areas so it has been agreed that, in order to encourage as much debate and
input as we can that we should set up eight email discussion lists, one for
each of the above topics. Cavers who are interested in any (or all!) of
these eight topics may join in by simply logging on to the NCA web site and
following the links
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> THESE DISCUSSION LISTS ARE OPEN TO ALL WHO WISH TO JOIN THEM. IF YOU HAVE
SOMETHING TO SAY, NCA WANTS TO HEAR YOUR VOICE.
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>
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