heritage ngos in flanders and the flemish heritage policy (karel dendooven)
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VCM-Contact Forum for Heritage Organisations(Belgium, Flemish & Brussels
regions)
support and community service for heritage
organisations
Call for action
VCM = short history of
active citizenship in the field of heritage
VCM-Contact Forum for Non-Governmental Heritage Organisations
founded in 1993 as NGO by 14
2009: network of 260 heritage organisations in Flanders and Brussels
effective members who work all over Flanders member-users who work local or regional
VCM-Contact Forum for Heritage Organisations
VCM-Contact Forum for Heritage Organisations
VCM-Contact Forum for Non-Governmental Heritage Organisations
what is VCM? network organisation (non-financial) support organisation advocate for the field
care for heritage: monuments, landscapes, archaeology, floating, mobile & flying heritage & other
mutual consultation exchange of information: seminars, quarterly magazine ‘VCM-Contact’, e-newsletter, website community service about voluntary work and the care for heritage representation of the members on all kinds of activities intermediary between member and expert reaction platform for the organisations towards the
governments and vice versa
Documents
put together own experiences and those of other organisations custom-made to the needs of the organisation a suited answer to all kinds of questions
Draft Articles for open-monument-organisations help initiators with the establishment of a non-profit organisation adjust the existing articles to the restoration grant order for protected monuments
Draft treaty of ground rent draft treaty of ground rent legal stipulations recommendations information is permanently kept up-to-date and is custom-made
Documents
Inventory card for local non-protected sepulchral heritage, chapels, crosses impulse for the development of a local policy a basic inventory card which helps heritage organisations to draw up a qualitative list
VCM-Contact Forum for Heritage Organisations
custom-made community service
(in general) free for all heritage organisations
always custom-made (personal contact is important)
easy approachable
VCM will look for the most suited instrument
-individual supervision-courses-seminars-leaflets…
evolution of volunteers to an organisation flanking the government
staff of 5,3 FTE staff member of minister first years: sponsored by King
Baldwinfoundation decentralization of Belgian state
-> responsibility for heritage: Flemish region
subsidized by Flemish government
what’s the real influence/result of active citizenship?
1.research projects
2.official advisory body
3.official organizer for subventions
VCM-Contact Forum for Heritage Organisations
what’s the influence/result of active citizenship?
1. research projects
floating heritage (since 2001)- resulted in legislation - creation of umbrella organisation
(official partner of and for the
government)
rolling – flying – mobile heritage (2005)
heritage of amusement (2006)
VCM-Contact Forum for Heritage Organisations
what’s the influence/result of active citizenship?
2. official advisory body: SARO
since 2007 member of official advisory body for environmental planning and immovable heritage
3. official organizer for subventions
for small and professional heritage organisations 20 x 2.500 & 10 x 10.000 euro
VCM-Contact Forum for Heritage Organisations
How do we try to influence?
memorandum for elections (local, provincial/county, regional, national European level)
- province of Vlaams-Brabant- federal action Flemish en Walloon
region
yearly conference on a specific theme
work together with administrations
VCM-Contact Forum for Heritage Organisations
Conclusion
real and constructive-critical interaction between VCM, members, heritage field, government and administration
real impact trough active citizenship
VCM-Contact Forum for Heritage Organisations
Heritage House den WolsackOude Beurs 272000 Antwerp
Belgium
0032 (0)3/212 29 60 0032 (0)3/212 26 61