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Dear all, Below is an update on the email I sent last week introducing the RAS200 project to celebrate the Royal Astronomical Society's bicentenary by bringing astronomy and geophysics to sectors that would not normally be exposed to them. The BGA is encouraging geophysicists to get involved with this project (much geophysics has the advantage that it can be done in the daytime!). You don't have to be a member of the RAS to get involved. The main thing is to get a non-geophysical organisation involved that can pass your geophysics on to its members/clients/customers. Please contact Sheila Kanani for details or see the RAS website page at http://www.ras.org.uk/200 Regards, Sheila Peacock, list co-owner, RAS Council member. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RAS200 town hall meeting dates Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:08:35 +0000 From: Sheila Kanani <[log in to unmask]> To: Sheila Kanani <[log in to unmask]> *** Please note you are receiving this email as a Fellow of the RAS. It is sent on behalf of the RAS200 Steering Group. Please send all queries to Sheila Kanani [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> *** Dear Fellow, *RAS 200: Sky and Earth* As you will probably know by now, the Royal Astronomical Society is running a major outreach and engagement programme, RAS 200: Sky and Earth, to commemorate the Society’s 200th anniversary in 2020. In addition to this letter, you can find details at www.ras.org.uk/200 <http://www.ras.org.uk/200> With a budget of £1 million, RAS 200 is overseen by a Steering Group of past and present Council members and staff who have collective experience in education, public engagement, local and national government and of course astronomy, space science and geophysics. Its aim is to fund around 10 projects to engage the wider public with the sciences we support, with our key goal being to work with groups that until now have been ‘hard to reach’. To that end, we approached a diverse range of organisations where we have had little or no involvement in the past, but that are well placed to work with the wider community and who would be potential project partners or leads. The next stage of the project will take place throughout the coming months, with regional ‘Town Hall’ meetings taking place at a number of locations around the UK. These will bring together potential national partners and / or their local representatives with more local groups, who are likely to provide the volunteer effort needed to make funded projects a success. At the present time the *confirmed* meetings are as follows: Location Date Venue Time Bristol 16th October at Bristol Evening Northumberland 21st October Bothal Middle School, Ashington Evening Winchester 22nd Oct Winchester Science Centre Afternoon/evening Bradford 27th October Town hall Afternoon/evening Leicester 6th Nov National Space Centre Evening London 11th November National Autistic Society Daytime Edinburgh 13th Nov Our Dynamic Earth Afternoon/evening Cheshire 23rd Nov Jodrell Bank Afternoon Aberystwyth 29th Nov tbc Morning/afternoon Armagh Nov tbc Ulster Museum or InvestNI tbc We also expect to have meetings in Reading, Glasgow and South Wales. We have had interest to hold some internationally as well; Galway, India and other locations! If there is a meeting local to you please do volunteer to help run the meeting. If you cannot help to run the meeting, please attend the meeting that is closest to you to help initiate networking and find new collaborators. If you wish to be notified of a specific meeting, please get in touch. */This will be the final email to the whole fellowship. Further, more detailed, invitations will be sent out to local fellows for local meetings, in due course./* RAS 200 is one of the most ambitious projects the RAS has undertaken. We very much welcome your support for and involvement in this exciting programme. Yours sincerely, Sheila Kanani RAS 200 Steering Group Dr Sheila Kanani Education, Outreach and Diversity Officer Royal Astronomical Society www.ras.org.uk <http://www.ras.org.uk> Tel: (+44) (0)207 734 4582 x207