Each year I start this introduction along the lines of "It's been another challenging year for the Society" or "I am amazed at the diversity of the organisation" or even "what an interesting year it has been". For 2007 I could use any of those phrases. At the start of 2007, if asked I would have said that I expected it to be a reasonably quiet year. There was the World Radio Conference to prepare for, but apart from that there was no IARU conference and no major issues on the horizon. It was a year for taking stock. Funny how things never turn out quite as you expect them to! So what did happen during 2007? At the start of the year the Board-sponsored 'Pathfinder'review was still ongoing and was looking at all aspects of RSGB operation, not just to make the Society more cost effective but also looking at how we could better serve the membership and the amateur radio community as a whole. At the same time this review was ongoing we commissioned an independent consultancy to advise on ways in which we could improve the marketing of the RSGB and the work that we do. Both these groups have submitted their findings and, over the course of the next year or so, you will see the Society take a more proactivee approach in the way in which we communicate to our members, as well as changes in the day-to-day administration.
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