The EASA usually holds Spring and Summer conferences and an Autumn Meeting (incorporating the AGM) every year. In addition, ‘EASA Electronic Evenings’ seminars, regional meetings and training days are held.
Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Postponed EASA AGM & Autumn Meeting 2024
NEW DATE – THURSDAY, 16th JANUARY 2025
St Mellitus College, 24, Collingham Road, Kensington, London. SW5 0LXThe postponed AGM and Autumn Meeting 2024 will now take place at St Mellitus College in St Jude’s Church on Thursday, 16th January 2025. Refreshments will be served during Registration between 09.30 a.m. for 10.00 a.m. This early start is in order to allow for the slightly extended AGM business and as many speakers as possible in the morning, while also allowing time for the Awards Ceremony, our Open Forum and further speakers in the afternoon.
The Autumn Meeting will continue our President’s theme for the year, “Is there Holiness in Beauty – does Image matter?” As previously billed, our two principal speakers will be Fr. Luke Miller, who will talk about Sir Ninian Comper and his relevance today, and Nigel Copsey, a stonemason and foremost proponent of hot lime mortars, who will speak about lime rich mortars and surface treatments on churches. Both speakers will, I think, raise important issues which should give us all a great deal to consider.
Making your booking:
1) Rolled Over Bookings:
If you have received confirmation that your booking for the postponed November meeting has been rolled over to this meeting, then you do not need to re-book.
If you have not had confirmation then please let me know what you want to do with your previous booking.
However, you will still need to visit the website using the link below to download my Colleague’s Letter to you, the Revised Programme and the Officer Nomination Form.
2) New Bookings:
If you have not yet booked, then please visit the ‘Meetings & Events’ page on the EASA website, via the link below, to obtain my Colleague’s Letter, the Revised Programme and the Booking and Officer Nomination Forms, for your action. Please copy, fill in and then email the Booking Form to make your booking.
All bookings must be received no later than Wednesday, 8 January 2025.
However, if you can send them in before the Christmas break, then that would be of great help.
Election of Officers and General Committee Members:
Can you also review your involvement in EASA and how you could assist in the work of the Association by offering to take up one of the Honorary Officers’ posts (President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary) as listed on the Nomination Form, or as a General Committee member. Please note that it is also possible for the General Committee to co-opt you for an initial twelve-month trial to dip your toes in the water as it were! Just fill in the Nomination Form and email it to Graeme Renton by Wednesday, 1st January 2025.
Please note that there will be a subsequent mailing to you, which will bring the actual conference papers, via the EASA website. So please check the website nearer the date to see if they have arrived.
Notice to Members of Motions to Amend the Rules of the Association:
This year’s AGM will address a number of issues, which reflect the changing circumstances of a digital world (GDPR Regulations) and our membership profile. A number of rule changes are to be put forward by the General Committee for consideration by the membership to reflect on these matters before votes are called for. Further details will be published within the meeting papers that will be the subject of a second mailing at present being prepared by Graeme Renton, who will be retiring as Hon. Secretary at this meeting.
Andrew Wood
EASA Immediate Past President and Hon. Meetings Secretary.
Past Meetings and Events
- EASA Regional Visit – St. John the Baptist, DronfieldThe Grade I listed Church of St. John the Baptist, Dronfield is currently undertaking a project of conservation and repair of the Chancel windows, to safeguard the medieval glass and affect a project of stone conservation repairs to the tracery. EASA are happy to announce that booking is now open for a visit to view… Read more: EASA Regional Visit – St. John the Baptist, Dronfield
- EASA Spring Conference 2024, King’s Lynn – Booking OpenEASA are delighted to announce that booking is open for the Spring Conference in King’s Lynn. The conference will run from Sunday, 19th May 2024 to Tuesday, 21st May 2024, with options for early bird tickets on the Sunday. Documentation relating to the conference is available to download via the links below. This includes a… Read more: EASA Spring Conference 2024, King’s Lynn – Booking Open
- Quinquennial Inspection Training Days 2024 – FULLY BOOKEDEASA are pleased to announce that we will be holding the following quinquennial inspection training days on: Tuesday, 9th April 2024 at St James’ Church, Meltham Mills, Huddersfield. Yorkshire. Tuesday, 23rd April 2024 at St Paul’s Church, Wokingham. Berkshire. Attached are several files with the relevant documents in them. There is one file with a… Read more: Quinquennial Inspection Training Days 2024 – FULLY BOOKED
- EASA Conference 2024: Kings Lynn: “Is there Holiness in Beauty – does Image matter?”As you will already be aware, due to circumstances beyond our control, EASA had to take the difficult decision to postpone our plans for a Spring Conference in Kings Lynn at the start of March this year. Not to be beaten we are now working up the final plans to run this conference from: Sunday,… Read more: EASA Conference 2024: Kings Lynn: “Is there Holiness in Beauty – does Image matter?”
- 2023 AGM and Autumn MeetingWe are returning to St Mellitus College in St Jude’s Church at 24, Collingham Road, Kensington, London. SW5 0LX for this year’s AGM and Autumn Meeting on Thursday, 2 November 2023 at 09.30 a.m.. This year the theme running through our speakers’ talks will major on the issue of the availability of grant aid for church repair and conservation work.… Read more: 2023 AGM and Autumn Meeting
- Hold the date: 2023 Autumn Meeting and AGMThe AGM will be held at St Mellitus College, 24 Collingham Rd, London SW5 0LX, this year on Thursday, 2 November 2023. Full details and booking information will be emailed out shortly.
- EASA Summer Conference 2023Friday, 30 June to Saturday, 1 July 2023 Theme: “Foundation Stones” Booking Deadline: Monday, 29 May 2023 We plan to start with a visit to the Hartham Park Stone Quarry at Corsham, where Bath Stone is quarried underground. We shall see the Bath Abbey Footprints Project during a visit to the Abbey and hear in… Read more: EASA Summer Conference 2023
- EASA Electronic Evenings: Solar Photo-voltaic Arrays at two Cathedrals: October 2021Wednesday 6th October 2021 5:00PM “Further thoughts on the design and installation of these installations on sensitive sites” EASA will be holding a further virtual evening meeting at 5.00 p.m. on Wednesday 6 October 2021 developing our thoughts on Net Zero Carbon matters, with a seminar on “Solar photo-voltaic arrays at two cathedrals”. This is the third of our… Read more: EASA Electronic Evenings: Solar Photo-voltaic Arrays at two Cathedrals: October 2021
- EASA Electronic Evenings: Bats in Churches: September 2021Thursday 23rd September 2021 5:00PM Bats found in churches are a common issue when building conservation and repairwork is proposed. Help and support is often found through support from Natural England and other such ecological bodies, amongst whom is the “Bats in Churches Project”. To develop our knowledge further we will be running a seminar on the subject,… Read more: EASA Electronic Evenings: Bats in Churches: September 2021