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Committees

The FOCAL International Committees seek to implement the objectives of the organisation. All such work is carried out on a voluntary basis.

Editorial

The Editorial Committee meets quarterly to plan the content of FOCAL International's Archive Zones journal - one of the leading sources of news and informationfor the industry, offering a platform for debate on issues of common concern, and an opportunity for members to promote themselves through copy and advertising.

Events & Exhibitions

The FOCAL Events & Exhibitions Committee is a committee made up of FOCAL International members and chaired by a member of the FOCAL Executive who reports back to the FOCAL Executive. The key purpose of this committee is to propose and consider ideas for, plan and review implementation of a) its own FOCAL International events to ensure promotion of all its members (like the now high profile FOCAL International Awards), and b) FOCAL’s attendance at various trade and industry events both in the UK and globally.

Finance

The Finance Committee oversees the setting of FOCAL International's annual budget and ensures that the organisation trades within those budgets approved by the Executive Council.

Funding & Lobbying

The Funding & Lobbying Committee seeks to enhance and extend FOCAL’s presence to the media at large and to lobby, where appropriate, for wider industry recognition of the commercial audio-visual archive professions in general.

The Committee is currently seeking to support its UK archive members’ interests by negotiating revenue share in lieu of footage royalties, with agencies that collect and disseminate funds derived from audio-visual copyright programmes used in educational off-air or other institutional and public domain environments, and which are otherwise inaccessible to individual FOCAL members.

Researchers Steering Group

Our purpose is to provide a platform giving support to fellow Researchers, an opportunity to share common concerns and to collectively promote and give advice on good working practice.

Training

The Committee's mission is to promote and provide training for the archive footage industry and its associated areas, to raise awareness of the need for training and to assist in formulating and monitoring training policy throughout the audio-visual industry. The Committee also has the responsibility for administering the Jane Mercer Memorial Fund.