Core Values, Constitution & Strategy

Constitution

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Strategy

The GESGB will be relevant, useful and beneficial to members at every stage of their careers within the Energy Industries

The GESGB is a member led organisation.

With the membership at the heart of our management and outputs, we aim to maintain and build the membership. The GESGB Executive and Operations team aim to protect the financial heath and long term sustainability of the society, ensuring that the benefits can be enjoyed by those in the relevant industries for years to come.

This Strategy focuses on three overarching areas:

  • Increasing the membership of the organisation
  • Achieving the Charitable objects
  • Maintaining a robust organisation

This Strategy will inform the direction and the decisions of the different departments and activities that make up the GESGB. It will ensure the GESGB community develops alongside the wider energy industry, with the needs of our members at the forefront of our decision making process.

Community

Our members are our community and we use this ‘ethos’ to inform all our decision-making.  The changes we have made with regard to rolling membership, the member database, increased engagement with the regional groups etc. have all been to increase the strength and engagement of the GESGB and the geoscience community.  

  • There is still much work to do, gender diversity needs further research as the gender split is 23% women and 77% men and we would be interested how this would be played out across the other Societies.
  • Opportunities to continue and build on the partnerships between GESGB and other Societies that lead to an increase in benefits to our members.
  • The Council have the capacity to influence and inform the GESGB’s activities and the membership communications.

Technical Excellence

Technical Excellence informs all the elements of education that the Society provides for the membership.  We are not an academic Society like the Geological Society of London, we are here for the people who work, have worked, or want to work in the subsurface energy industries and arguably the technical content for this group will be the very best as there is tangible investment in knowledge within this industry.  The technical content is not just for work for the members but also for leisure as we offer field trips and events with highly knowledgeable leaders who encourage discussion and enjoy passionate exchange on the given topic.

  • The GESGB office team look to the Council to make decisions based on the technical value of topics, presentations and courses.
  • New initiatives developed as part of the partnership agreements and making use of our training space. Visiting lecturers from other Societies and debates around issues and theories.

Charity

The GESGB is a charity and it eschews profits for the benefits of the membership.  focus is on grassroots activity, through schools, and the building of a population that has at least a basic understanding of geology. 

The disappearance of geology as a subject from the national curriculum is a big concern for the GESGB and its members, so the little funding available has been going to the Earth Science Teachers Association to train teachers how to teach Geology at A Level and to engage and inspire both geologists and geologists working within schools with resources, tools and a network. The GESGB would like to be instrumental in ensuring the public can join in the big debates about energy and climate with at least a basic level of understanding.