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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Amgueddfa Body"">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Cindy Howells <Cindy.Howells@museumwales.ac.uk>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 17, 2023 4:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Cindy Howells <Cindy.Howells@museumwales.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> GCG notice of Winter Seminar and 50th AGM - Don't forget to register.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear GCG members and friends,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C82613">Just a quick reminder to register
<u>asap</u></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> for our forthcoming
<b>ONLINE </b>seminar on <b><span style="background:white">Building bridges between collectors and museums’
</span></b></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.geocurator.org/events">Events - The Geological Curators Group (geocurator.org)</a>.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Please check on our events page (nearer the time) for updates and timings.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> We now have over a dozen excellent speakers lined up during the day, and will finish with a discussion session where we hope that we can make a little
progress towards improving communications between museums and collectors, and ideally finding out what museums still need to do. We hope to hear from many of you during this session - with
<u>positive </u>ideas. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="elementtoproof" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">If anyone has any questions or discussion points they would like to raise in advance, then please send these on to me (<u><a href="mailto:membership@geocurator.org">membership@geocurator.org</a></u>)
and we can use those as a basis for how we proceed. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The GCG AGM will be held in the afternoon (and is free to attend) on the 28<sup>th</sup> November. All are welcome to attend; however, please note that only paid up GCG members can vote.
The GCG committee currently has four vacancies; Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator, Communications Coordinator, Web Coordinator Assistant, and an open position as an Ordinary Member. The role descriptions can be found
<b><a href="https://www.geocurator.org/committee/146-getting-involved-with-gcg" title="https://www.geocurator.org/committee/146-getting-involved-with-gcg">here</a></b>. If you would like to join our merry band of volunteers, please get in touch.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">With very best wishes,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Cindy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">(on behalf of the GCG committee)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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