BIOS Reporter – Volume 39, No.3 – July 2015

Following the advertisement in the April edition of the Reporter, and the plea for members to come forward and help with the day to day operations of running BIOS and the services we provide to the public, we are grateful to the three members who contacted us in connection with the post of Coordinator for the Historic Organs Listing Committee. I am sure that members will be pleased to read in the Secretary’s notes of the last Council meeting that follow-up discussions are now taking place with one of those three, with a real hope that we have found a volunteer with exactly the right experience and background to undertake this important work. However, we have still had no enquiries about the Publicity post. There must surely be a member out there somewhere who has the aptitude and skills to continue designing and placing the eye-catching advertisements that Melanie Plumley has produced for us in recent years, and that appear in such prestigious publications as Organists’ Review and Choir & Organ? This is not a cosmetic exercise, it is a vital way of informing the public about BIOS and attracting them to want to become members…