A downloadable copy of the Handbook for students coming to the AGWSD Summer School 2019 is now available on the WIP. Students will receive a printed copy of the Handbook in their Welcome Pack when they arrive at Askham Bryan. However, you are able to view and download it now by clicking this link:
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Newsletter April 2019
Please click the link below to access the April 2019 Association Newsletter
AGM 2019 and Survey of Members
The Draft Minutes of the 2019 AGM are now available to view from this link:
Survey Of All members, from all guilds is now live. This Survey can be completed online from this link: Survey
For those members who are unable to complete online the PDF version is available here: Survey_AGWSD_Development which can be printed and can then be returned either via Guild secretaries or by post to the AGWSD Secretary directly.
The findings of this survey will be used by the GPC to inform future planning. Please share the link with members. Thank you.
2020 National Exhibition
Our 2020 National Exhibition will be held from 5th – 20th September at Leigh Spinners Mill in Lancashire.
Information, timeline and entry criteria can be found on the WIP by clicking here.
Season’s Greetings!
Warmest Greeting to all Spinners, Weavers and Dyers…. in fact everyone who loves yarns and fibres.
Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and a Creative New Year
Summer School Brochure & Applications!
Summer School Brochure for 2019 is now ready!
It can be downloaded, along with the Booking form and the Bursary application form by clicking on this link:
Summer School 2019
Regional Reps!
After 6 years of planning and organising we are very pleased to announce that all 10 Guild Regions now have their own Representative!
The Regional Mapping files and the allocation of Reps following the GPC meeting of 21st July 2018 are now listed on the WIP. The Reps, once they get the hang of their new email system, will be in touch with Guild Secretaries in their regions to introduce themselves.
Look our for their emails!
GPC July 2018
National Exhibition Glasgow 16th – 29th July – Now OPEN!!
The Guilds of Scotland and Northern Ireland are
pleased to invite you to Glasgow for the 2018
National Exhibition.
SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES INSIGHT INSTITUTE
(formerly the Collins Gallery)
Collins Building • University of Strathclyde
22 Richmond Street • Glasgow G1 1XQ
16th – 29th July 2018 10am – 5pm
The University of Strathclyde has kindly offered the use
of the former Collins Gallery, which in the past was used
regularly for this type of exhibition. It is ideally located
only a few minutes walk from Queen Street Station and
the main bus and coach station and only a little further
from Central Station for trains from the south. There is
parking close by as well as hotels and cafes.
The exhibits cover the crafts of weaving, spinning
and dyeing and show the creativity and expertise of
individual Guild members from 110 Guilds across the
UK.
Members of the Guilds in Scotland and Northern Ireland
will be on hand to explain the work exhibited and to
demonstrate the various fibre processes of carding,
combing, spinning and weaving and the use of dye
plants and other dyeing materials.
Summer School 2019 – A Textile Heritage
Summer School 2019 has an active website full of information! Please take a look.
Privacy Policy May 2018
Privacy Statement
Preservation of your privacy is important to the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers (AGWSD) and we are committed to letting you know how we use your personal information and to making only responsible use of your data.
References to “we”, “us”, “you” or “our” in this Privacy Policy are references to the AGWSD (a charity registered in England and Wales, registered charity number: 289590.)
- Information about you
1.1 The AGWSD Secretary will be what’s known as the ‘Controller’ of the personal data you provide to us.
1.2 We will collect personal information from you when you enquire about our activities, register as a member with us or register for a workshop/course/conference with us. This may include your name, title, email address, physical address and telephone numbers. We may also ask for some additional, non-personal information.
1.3 We need to know your basic personal data in order to provide you with on-going organisational updates and information in line with the aims of AGWSD. We will not collect any personal data from you we do not need.
- Our use of this information
2.1 Your personal information will only be used to process your requests. All the personal data we process is processed by General Purposes Committee as needed. No 3rd parties have access to your personal data.
- Security
3.1 We will take all reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of information you give us. We have a Data Protection regime in place to oversee the effective and secure processing of your personal data
3.2 Your information will be retained by us until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive any information and/or are no longer a member.
- Cookies
4.1 If cookies are used they will only be used to assist the purposes set out in this privacy policy, but cookies will not be used if we do not consider them to be necessary.
- Other information
5.1 If you would like us to correct or update any information, or if you would like information deleted from our records, then please email us at secretary@wsd.org.uk
5.2 This privacy policy may be updated from time to time, so please check it periodically.
5.3 Links within our sites to other websites are not covered by this privacy policy.
5.4 If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted. If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact us to have the matter investigated.
This Policy was updated May 2018