{"id":43489,"date":"2025-11-14T16:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=43489"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:50:12","slug":"could-your-skills-and-experience-help-to-shape-the-rsgbs-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2025\/11\/14\/could-your-skills-and-experience-help-to-shape-the-rsgbs-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"RSGB Election 2026: Nominations now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society&#8217;s year starts and ends at the AGM, and we are seeking proactive and enthusiastic members with the right skills who would like to become a <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Director of the Society<\/strong><\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/regions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Regional Representative<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are vacancies for two Nominated Directors, two Elected Directors and three Regional Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Nominated Directors are selected by the Society&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/nomcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nominations Committee<\/strong><\/a> and then RSGB members vote to endorse them as part of the AGM voting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The closing date for these vacancies is 5 December 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in either the Elected Director or Regional Representative roles, you can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/rsgb-2026-elections\/election-information-for-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>candidate packs and application forms<\/strong><\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/rsgb.org\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rsgb.org\/elections<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The application deadline for the elected roles is 31 January 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to find out more about any of these vacancies, please email the RSGB Company Secretary Stephen Purser, GW4SHF at <strong>company.secretary@rsgb.org.uk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society&#8217;s year starts and ends at the AGM, and we are seeking proactive and enthusiastic members with the right skills who would like to become a Director of the Society or a Regional Representative. There are vacancies for two Nominated Directors, two Elected Directors and three Regional Representatives. Nominated Directors are selected by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43489"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43588,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43489\/revisions\/43588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}