the Trust’s 34th AGM

On Tuesday (26th January), the Trust’s 34th AGM (Annual General Meeting) was held in the meeting-room here at Roman Circus House. It was attended by a large number of members of the Trust’s Council of Management and Trust director Philip. The meeting was chaired by Nick Wickenden (the head of Chelmsford Museum Services), who is chairman of the Council of Management, and he was assisted by company secretary John Mallinson (of the Colchester Archaeological Group). Trust senior archaeologist Howard Brooks took the minutes. The Council of Management convenes for a quarterly meeting, three times a year, and the AGM is the grand annual meeting and the first of the year. At the AGM this week, Philip presented a report on the work of the Trust during the previous year and discussed the year ahead, including our continuing plans for the Roman circus centre. In February 2015, the Trust celebrated its 50th anniversary – we survived that, and we’re flourishing!

From our ‘Who we are’ page on this web-site: ‘… We are the Colchester Archaeological Trust, a registered charity (no 283354) founded in 1965 to research into and promote the archaeology of Colchester. We are also a limited company (no 1578133) whose registered offices are at Roman Circus House … The Trust is made up of about 20 Trustees. Some are members in their own right, others are representatives of archaeological and other bodies. The management of the Trust is delegated to the Council of Management which is elected from the Trustees. Currently the chairman of the Council of Management is Nick Wickenden MA FSA AMA and the company secretary is John Mallinson. The Trust employs a full-time professional unit, available to provide developers and others with a full range of archaeological services required by local authorities for planning applications or planning consents …’.

*** The AGM of the Friends of the Trust will be held here at Roman Circus House on Saturday 6th February, followed by an afternoon of illustrated talks about the Trust’s archaeological discoveries in 2015 at Lion Walk Congregational Church in Colchester town centre: for more details, please go to the calendar on the home page of this web-site and click on the event date.

The image is our logo. This is, by sheer coincidence, a design of a Roman racing-chariot with four horses and charioteer. We adopted it as our logo many years before we discovered the site of the Roman circus in Colchester.

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