The Hampshire Family Historian | Volume 50 No.2 | Sept 2023

HGS News

Finally, it was time to say ‘goodbye’ to Chris Pavey – HGS’s ‘Jill of all Trades’! – and her husband Geoff. Chris was officially our Vice Chair and Research Manager during her last few years with us. However, somehow over the years, she also ‘morphed’ into being the Office Manager and our Sales Manager after the Research Office moved from Cosham to Winchester. This was clearly not supposed to happen but it didn’t change largely because Chris, being physically in the new HGS Office, carried out all those functions cheerfully and perfectly well! Her successor will not carry such a burden in the future but, in grateful thanks and acknowledgement of all that Chris has done for HGS over the years, strongly supported by her husband Geoff (the HGS Official Photographer for Conference Day!) she was presented with two large ornamental shrubs / trees for her garden, together with her gifts and a bouquet of flowers.. Now that the 2023 AGM is behind us and, having now recovered from the turmoil we found ourselves in just a few months earlier - which you were all made fully aware of at the

time - we now have a full complement of Officers and Trustees again. Consequently, we are all looking forward very much to working together to ensure the future successful operations of our Society. Along with our Vice Chair and Secretary, plus another Trustee John Bowman and our IT / Web Co-ordinator Richard Backhouse, I have been putting together a new “HGS Organisation Chart”. This Chart sets out all the Roles and Responsibilities that HGS has to carry out on a regular basis and, much to my relief, we found we could now put names in all the boxes! Having named individuals, who will be responsible for one particular Role each within the Organisation, will be a great help in avoiding the pressure put on previous individuals in the past - however unintentional it was - who then took on other people’s responsibilities to such an extent that it began to damage their own mental and physical health. We cannot allow that to happen again and we will do our utmost to ensure it doesn’t. Tony Sinclair Chairman

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