Giving from Outside the UK

in

Why Should you Help?

Avebury, Wiltshire The CBA is reliant on voluntary income from individuals, members and supporting organisations to continue our valuable work for the archaeology of the UK.

The CBA and our hundreds of volunteers, are engaged in many projects to safeguard our unique and wonderful archaeology for present and future generations to enjoy and love. We are working on behalf of everyone who has been moved by our most famous archaeological landmarks to protect and share those that are less well known. We aim to improve the status and protection of the UK’s archaeology whilst encouraging, promoting and providing opportunities for everyone to learn from our shared legacy. This includes providing information across the globe to enable everyone with an interest the UK’s archaeology, to feel attached to it and to learn from what it has to tell us. Knowledge is empowering and what better way to empower people to love and care for archaeology than to help them learn from it!

This all costs money and we need your help to support this work and help us to do more!

We are a modestly sized organisation with only 27 employees and an income and expenditure of around £1 million a year.

The majority of our expenditure, 97%, goes directly on our charitable activities, only a tiny 1% is spent on vital Governance and the remaining 2% on generating income. Visit the CBA’s Charity Commission page page for further information on this. Every employee at the CBA strives to keep costs low and we involve volunteers wherever possible to carry out our activities.

In the past 65 years we have achieved some magnificent steps forward for archaeology in the UK, for example:

  • The CBA realised the value of aerial photographs to archaeology and negotiated with the RAF to make their huge library of aerial photographs available to archaeologists.
  • The CBA set up the first Industrial Archaeology Congress in the world in 1959.
  • The CBA introduced the concept of historic urban areas and a list of historic towns originally identified by CBA is still cited.
  • The CBA campaigned for the sympathetic preservation of the Albert Docks in Liverpool in the 1960s as a place of great importance both in the UK and abroad for its links not only to the slave industry, but it was a centre of emigration of UK nationals to the United States of America.

(Visit the CBA History pages to learn more about our role in shaping the way British archaeology is cared for and appreciated by many.)

To ensure that we can continue to innovate and keep archaeology on the agenda and achieve even more, we must seek continual support from individuals and organisations as passionate about archaeology as we are. We need your help!

The valuable support of members, subscribers and supporters is incredibly important for the CBA and we would like to say a very heartfelt thank you to you all!