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Annual Review2015–2016INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC AND ARTISTIC WORKS

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Participants at the First IIC-ITCC course onPreventive Conservation during a practicalsession in the Palace Museum BeijingSeptember 2015. Photo © Mikkel Scharff

The full audited Reports and Accounts ofthe International Institute for Conservationof Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) for theyear ending 30th June 2016 are lodged withthe Charity Commission and CompaniesHouse once approved at the AnnualGeneral Meeting. They are available fordownload from the IIC website(https://www.iiconservation.org/about/core-documents).

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Annual Review 2015–2016

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC AND ARTISTIC WORKS

Objectives and ActivitiesIIC is an independent internationalorganisation supported by individual andinstitutional members. It serves as a forum forcommunication among professionals withresponsibility for the preservation of culturalheritage. The objectives of IIC are to advanceknowledge, professional practice andstandards for the conservation of historic andartistic works. This is achieved through itspublications, initiatives and conferences. IICpromotes professional excellence and publicawareness through its awards, scholarships andoutreach efforts.

Policy of the InstituteIIC advances knowledge, practice andstandards for the preservation andconservation of historic and artistic works byencouragement of the study of conservationpractice and the nature and properties ofmaterials used in objects of cultural heritage, orin their treatment. The aim is to further theunderstanding and control of the causes of thedeterioration of cultural heritage objects and toimprove their condition. The Instituteencourages education, study and research inthe field of conservation and branches ofscience that further its objectives. IIC achievesthese objectives through its publications,conferences and website with its linked socialnetworking systems, which contribute towardsthe interchange of ideas. It promotesprofessional excellence and public awarenessthrough its awards and scholarships.

Public benefitIIC’s Mission: IIC is an independentinternational organisation which serves as aforum for the preservation of cultural heritage.It advances knowledge, professional practiceand standards for the conservation of historicand artistic works through its publications,initiatives and conferences. It promotesprofessional excellence and public awarenessthrough its awards, scholarships and outreachefforts. This mission is achieved through IIC’sconferences, publications and social mediaoperations. Its Opportunities, BrommelleMemorial and other funds have supportedmany who would not otherwise have been ableto take advantage of these activities.

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The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and ArtisticWorks (IIC) is a learned society, a registered charity and a companylimited by guarantee with no share capital. Charity number: 209677Company number: 481522.

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CONTENTS Page

1 Review of Operations 3for the Year 1st July 2015 to 30th June 2016

Events

Training and ProfessionalDevelopment

Future events –Preparations for the 2016 Los Angeles Congress

2 IIC Connections and 7Publishing

Publications

Communications

3 How IIC works 9for you

IIC Council

Members and Fellows

Our future plans

4 Finances and 12Organisational Policy

Welcome to our new-lookAnnual Review, which alsointroduces a new

appearance for IIC in the design andcolour schemes used for documentsand also, eventually, the website. Assome of you may know, we employeda marketing consultancy, TangibleBranding, to advise us on how wepresented ourselves and how wecould do better: our updated logo

and clearer design are part of theresult. You will soon see elements ofthe new design in News inConservation and in Studies inConservation. We think you willagree that it will bring a fresher,brighter look to our productions.

Sarah Staniforth, President, IIC

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Audience at Professor Stone’s lecture at the 2016 AGM held at the LinnaeanSociety of London 25th January 2016. Photo© Mikkel Scharff


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Some of our activities this year havecontributed towards the education orprofessional development ofconservators and those in relatedprofessions; others, such as ourpublication Studies in Conservationand the on-line newspaper News inConservation, have providedinformation or have helped toadvance professional practice. Allhave provided interesting, excitingand very different ways of fulfillingIIC’s stated purpose. The Studentand Emerging Conservatorconference held in Warsaw; thearresting and challenging talk byProfessor Peter Stone, OBE at theAGM in January 2016; the first courseheld at the IIC International TrainingCentre for Conservation (IIC-ITCC) inBeijing and the Professional Seminaron copyright were highlights and youcan read more about them below.

It is important for us that we arerelevant and useful to you, ourmembers. Earlier this year, we invitedTangible Branding, a marketingconsultancy, to carry out a survey tofind out what you think of us, wherewe are falling short and where we canimprove our service. It was clear thatwe needed to update our image.One result of this is a new format forour annual report, the IIC AnnualReview, and 2017 will see the launchof an updated website and somechanges in the appearance of our

Review of Operations forthe Year 1st July 2015 to30th June 2016

publications. There are otherconservation organisations, some ofwhich may be local to you and thesemay have an everyday relevance in away that an international organisation

may not possess. Please rememberthat you have colleagues across theworld with the same interests, thesame problems, the same aspirationsas you. You may not know them yet,but you can meet them through ourwebsite, our social media or at one ofour meetings or conferences.

Visit to the WarsawAcademy of Fine Artstudio. Photo © GrahamVoce

Participants arriving forthe third Student andEmerging ConservatorConference, WarsawAcademy of Fine Arts.Photo © Graham Voce

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Events

Third Student and EmergingConservator Conference: Making theTransition: from Student toConservation-RestorationProfessionalThe third Student and Emerging Conservatorconference was held in October 2015 at theWarsaw Academy of Fine Arts, who providedmost generous financial and logistical support.Like the previous conferences in this series, thewhole conference was organised by thestudents themselves: from booking the lecturetheatre and organising the audio-visualfacilities to arranging visits and social eventsand ordering the refreshments. IIC’s role is tohelp and advise, through regular Skypemeetings between the student organisers andMikkel Scharff (Vice-President), Jo KirbyAtkinson (Secretary-General) and Graham Voce(Executive Secretary) for IIC. The conferenceorganisation is an important exercise for thestudents, particularly learning how to plan thesessions and how to budget and handlefinancial aspects, often the aspect ofconference organisation that is most difficult tocontrol.

The students chose three broad topics todevelop in the sessions: the effects of thedifferences in the conservation education

systems in different countries; bridging the gapbetween studies and work; and potentialbenefits (the values of networking) and barriersfor the young conservation-restorationprofessional. They invited the panellists on thebasis of their personal experience in relation tothe topics, including students studying in otherparts of Europe and both recently qualified andhighly experienced conservators, whosecareers had taken a particular path. Thesessions were streamed live by the WarsawAcademy of Fine Arts in Warsaw through theirYouTube account so it was possible to take partonline and submit questions during the eventthrough Twitter or the event’s Facebook page.

Like the earlier S&EC conferences held inLondon (2011) and Copenhagen (2013),transcripts and videos of this useful and veryentertaining event will be put on the IICwebsite. We are very grateful to MarzennaCiechanska, Dean of the Faculty ofConservation and Restoration of Works of Art,Monika Supruniuk and the student organisers,Julia Burdajewicz, Anna Konopko, PiotrPopławski, Anna Kowalik, Sylwia Popławska,Michał Kowalczyk, Anna Pomorska, MonikaDzik and Zdzisław Dębski, who made this eventpossible and also to Adam Klupś, one of theinstigators of IIC’s Student conferences, for hisinvaluable guidance.

Professor Peter Stone, OBE, at theIIC AGM, 25th January 2016Over the years, those attending the IIC AGMhave been both entertained and informed bytalks and Dialogues for the New Century on awide range of subjects. On this occasion, theformal business of the meeting, which was heldat the Linnaean Society of London, wasconcluded by an extremely well attended andthought-provoking talk on ‘The protection ofcultural property in the event of armedconflict’, given by Professor Peter Stone, OBE,2016 UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property,Protection and Peace and Professor ofHeritage Studies at Newcastle University. Thissobering and timely account of the work of theBlue Shield voluntary organisation and its workto mitigate damage to cultural heritage duringand after conflicts and natural disastersgenerated a lively discussion.

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Training and professionaldevelopment

IIC International Training Centre forConservation, IIC-ITCCIIC’s collaboration with the Palace Museum inBeijing in the foundation of the IICInternational Training Centre for Conservation(IIC-ITCC) is an important and excitingoutcome of the 2014 Hong Kong IIC Congress.The agreement between the two organisationsis initially for three years until 2017. The trainingcentre is hosted and funded by the PalaceMuseum, who provide support for the speakersand participants while training andinternational expertise is provided by IIC,primarily by IIC Fellows. To facilitatecommunications, IIC and the Hong KongLeisure and Cultural Services Department(LCSD), IIC’s hosts for the Hong KongCongress, have collaborated to provide an IICSecretariat in Hong Kong.

The first course, entitled ‘Scientific Approachesto Preventive Conservation’, took place from20th to 24th September 2015 and was given byIIC Fellows Sarah Staniforth, David Saunders,Mikkel Scharff, Robert Waller, Jerry Podany,Velson Horie and Jo Kirby Atkinson, togetherwith Dr Song Jirong of the Palace Museum,with an introductory lecture from Dr ShanJixiang, Director of the Palace Museum. Thecourse, which was given in English, includedlectures and practical sessions, some within thePalace Museum buildings, and participants andlecturers also had the opportunity to visit theexcellent Cultural Heritage Conservation andRestoration exhibition, held at the PalaceMuseum. Of the 20 participants, mostlyexperienced conservators and of middle-management level, half were from China andmany of the remainder were from regions ofthe world where access to up-to-dateinformation, facilities or even discussion withcolleagues is not straightforward.

Both the Palace Museum and IIC were anxiousthat the lectures and reading lists should bemade available to the conservation communityand all are available for download as PDFs fromthe IIC website. IIC would like to thank Dr ShanJixiang, Director of the Palace Museum, DrSong Jirong, Deputy Director and head of theConservation Department and all those in theConservation Department for their superb andgenerous hospitality and particularly KatherineXiaoji Fang at the Palace Museum and CaseyLiu in Hong Kong for the organisation.

Professional seminars – a new eventIIC’s new Professional Seminars are intendedpartly to help with professional developmentand partly to provide information on matterswhere a conservation professional, particularlyone working privately without the support of a

large institution, may need advice in a relativelybrief, succinct form.

The first of these, a well-attended half-daymeeting on the subject of copyright, inpublishing and in the use of images, was held inMarch 2016 and was chaired by Joyce Townsend,IIC’s Director of Publications. The speakers wereGeorge Cooper, Managing Editor for Arts &Humanities Journals, Taylor & Francis Routledge,publisher of IIC’s journal Studies in Conservation;Elizabeth Walley, Licensing Manager, The Designand Artists Copyright Society (DACS); BernardHorrocks, Intellectual Property Manager, TateGallery Legal Department, and Chair, MuseumsIP Network; and Mikka Gee Conway, AssistantGeneral Counsel/Registered In-House Counsel,The J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, USA, whoattended by Skype. The brief presentations onacademic publishing, images and imagelicensing, filming and open access images werefollowed by a very lively question and answersession, which demonstrated the lack of easilyavailable information needed by all those workingin the heritage conservation field, particularly withrespect to images. It also showed the greatconcern conservators had over the use ofimages, their own and those of others.

Participants andlecturers touring thePalace Museumbuildings. Photo ©Mikkel Scharff

Lecturing on thePreventive Conservationcourse. Photo © MikkelScharff

Participants discussingassignments during thecourse. Photo © MikkelScharff


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programme. Papers and posters have beenedited by the Editorial Committee under thechairmanship of Joyce Townsend. 20 studentposters have also been selected by a separatecommittee headed by Meaghan Monaghan,with the help of Amber Kerr.

As in previous years, IIC has been fortunate toreceive a generous grant from the GettyFoundation to enable conference attendancefor 30 participants from parts of the worldwhere travel to and attendance at such aconference is simply too expensive. The finalselection of candidates is agreed by the GettyFoundation. On this occasion, IIC has alsoreceived a grant from Tru Vue, partly towardsthe preprints and partly towards travel andaccommodation for five people. IIC’s ownBrommelle Memorial Fund has also been ableto support the attendance of 18 conservationstudents at the 2016 Congress.

The Walt Disney ConcertHall, Los Angeles, one ofthe tour options for theLos Angeles Congress.Photo © Graham Voce

The presentations and a summary of thediscussion session have been compiled into aPDF document which is available for downloadfrom the IIC website. We are very grateful toClare Finn, who, as a consequence of her ownconcerns with copyright, contributed a greatdeal to the development and organisation ofthis particular event.

Future events –Preparations for the 2016Los Angeles CongressThe IIC Los Angeles Congress, on the subjectof Saving the Now: Crossing Boundaries toConserve Contemporary Works, takes placefrom 12th to 16th September 2016 at theMillennium Biltmore Hotel. Sarah Staniforth, JoKirby Atkinson and Graham Voce visited LosAngeles in October 2015 to see the venue andmeet members of the local organisingcommittee, which is headed by Jerry Podany,President Emeritus of IIC, with Tom Learner ofthe Getty Conservation Institute and IICCouncil member. For day-to-day administrativematters, IIC engaged the services of aprofessional conference organiser, Dana Saal ofSaal Meeting Consulting, who, with her team,have worked closely with IIC and Jerry Podanyin Los Angeles. In addition, to facilitate thehandling of funds raised within the United

States itself, IIC signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding with the Getty ConservationInstitute to hold these funds until paymentsneed to be made upon the receipt of invoices.For this congress IIC are also in partnershipwith INCCA (the International Network for theConservation of Contemporary Art), particularlyin the organisation of the Technical Programmeand members of this organisation haveperformed invaluable work on the TechnicalCommittee. The Technical Committee, headedby Austin Nevin, have selected the papers andposters which together make up the


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Every year our goal is to inform,interest and even entertain you andwe aim to do this efficiently throughour publications and the wealth ofinformation hosted on our website:immediate news or enduringresearch material, according to yourneeds.

PublicationsMembers may perhaps have noticed that therewas a change in the imprint of Studies inConservation during the year 2015–16 as IIC’spublishing partner Maney was acquired byTaylor and Francis Routledge, a majorinternational academic publisher based in theUK, with effect from the end of August 2015.The significance of this was probably felt morebehind the scenes by those submitting orediting papers, or working directly withManey’s staff, than by readers as workingprocesses and the staff involved in theproduction of Studies in Conservation,changed during the year. IIC’s first online-only,open access, supplements to Studies inConservation publishing non-IIC conferencepreprints were in production at the time. Thesewere the postprints of the 10th LACONAconference, held in June 2014 (supplement 1for 2015, with guest editors AbdelrazekElnaggar, Austin Nevin, Marta Castillejo andMatija Strlič), and the papers arising from theICCROM Forum on Conservation Science, heldin Rome in October 2013 (supplement 2 for2015, with guest editors Alison Heritage andStavroula Golfomitsou); both appeared underthe Maney imprint. All six issues of Studies inConservation for the 2015 calendar year werealso published under the Maney imprint. From2016, the six issues are being published byTaylor and Francis Routledge: the first twocame out several months late due to thechangeover in processes (and apologies aredue to members and all readers for this); the

rest are now back on schedule. Taylor andFrancis Routledge are already increasingresources, insights and market opportunitiesavailable to IIC and the publishing agreementis now providing a net income to IIC fromStudies.

Studies in Conservation is now hosted on theTaylor and Francis website. The format andappearance of the journal has not changed,nor the intention to publish half of the issueson themes that emerge from the papersaccepted for publication, generally alternatingwith unthemed issues. The number ofsubmissions continues to be high at around100 per year, and the journal’s impact factor hasincreased over the year under discussion from0.25 to 0.50. The most frequently downloadedpapers over the year have been those from theIIC 2014 Hong Kong congress, the two non-IICsupplements noted above, papers on modernmaterials and reviews of examination andanalytical techniques. The availability of openaccess for some papers markedly increasedtheir number of downloads. Several shortertechnical papers have been included and arebeing encouraged as a submission route, while

IIC connections and Publishing

Studies in Conservation:vol. 60, no. 6, November2015 and vol. 61, nos. 1and 3, January and May2016

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book reviews have been moved from thejournal to IIC’s website. IIC is very grateful tothe hard and sustained work of Editor-in-ChiefDr Chandra Reedy and the team of almosttwenty editors.

CommunicationsIIC communicates electronically with itsmembers, the conservation profession and thebroader community through its electronicnewspaper News in Conservation, its activesocial media presence, particularly through theIIC Facebook page and the IIC LinkedIn Group,and through the website. The content of allthese sites is provided free and IIC producesand monitors content for these sites verycarefully as befits the leading internationalindependent organisation for the conservationprofession. We are pleased to report thatduring the period under review patronage of

these sites continued to grow, indicating thereis an ever increasing interest and demand forinformed conservation content.

During the year under discussion, IIC’s NewsEditor Barbara Borghese has produced sixonline-only issues of News in Conservation in aPDF format unchanged from previous years.News in Conservation reached an average of7,100 readers per edition and a total of over42,600 readers during the year, not countingthe 75,000 times articles were viewed onScoop.it. Facebook followers have grown overthe past year to over 35,000 (from 30,000), ourLinkedIn Group followers surged past 1,000(from 630), and website hits increased by 20%.

The website continues to provide a key centralresource for the membership with furtherstreamlining of access to on-line IICpublications and, additionally, book reviewsand obituaries. A feature added recently is thepermanent Chinese language pages section,edited by Casey Liu in Hong Kong. As with anywebsite, elements of it require regularupgrading and the IIC Council will beconsidering during 2016 how best to expeditethis.

IIC’s electronic communications continues torely heavily on Athanasios Velios, our websitemanager, and Barbara Borghese, our NewsEditor, supported tirelessly by Amber Kerr,Facebook co-ordinator, Sharra Grow, LinkedInGroup co-ordinator, Kate Stonor and theCommunications Team, all of whosecontributions are very gratefully acknowledged.

News in Conservation,issue for December 2015

Download statistics forNews in Conservationshowing substantialincrease in numbersfrom 2014 onwards


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IIC CouncilIIC Council members may serve for twoperiods, each of three years. Followingelections held at the AGM in January 2016, IICwas sad to say goodbye to Cornelia Weyer as aCouncil member at the end of her six years ofservice. We are extremely grateful to Cornelia,who has been an unfailing source of goodsuggestions and bright ideas and has given IICenthusiastic assistance over the years – and, weare delighted to say, she continues to do sowith her interest in the Fellowship. Thecommitment made by Council members is notinsignificant and we would thus also like toexpress our gratitude to her employers, theLandeshauptstadt DüsseldorfRestaurierungszentrum for supporting hercommitment.

We also said goodbye, with very gratefulthanks, to Shing-wai Chan, who resigned fromCouncil due to increased responsibilities at theLeisure and Cultural Services Department(LCSD) of the Government of the Hong KongSpecial Administrative Region (HKSAR), but weare delighted to maintain the link with HongKong following the election of Alice Tsang as aCouncil member.

Sarah Staniforth was re-elected as Presidentand David Saunders and Mikkel Scharff werere-elected as Vice-Presidents, all for a furtherthree years. Valentine Walsh completed sixyears as an ordinary Member of Council andhas been elected to a first three-year term asVice-President. Velayudhan Nair and AustinNevin were re-elected as ordinary Councilmembers for a further three years. Jo KirbyAtkinson and Velson Horie were elected to afurther three-year term as Secretary-Generaland Treasurer respectively. Julian Bickersteth,who completed his six years as a Vice-President, was elected as Director ofCommunications for a first three-year period, arole he had previously been filling on atemporary basis.

As a UK-based charity and company limited byguarantee, the Annual General Meeting andmany Council meetings take place in the UK.However, as an international organisation, theIIC Council tries to have one meeting annuallyin the country of one of the Council members,thus enabling it to meet local conservators,develop relationships and discuss differentattitudes to conservation. This year the MayMeeting was organised in Doha by Councilmember Stavroula Golfomitsou; here our hostswere UCL (University College London) Qatar.This gave Council members the opportunity tomeet staff teaching conservation students andcarrying out conservation research in a regionwith its own, very particular characteristics, aswell as visiting the beautiful Museum of IslamicArt and, for some, the chance to examine thesteel sculpture East-West/West-East by RichardSerra, which is located in the desert and isexhibiting some conservation problems. Weare most grateful to Professor Thilo Rehren,Director of Research UCL Qatar, StavroulaGolfomitsou and Flavia Ravaioli for theirgenerous hospitality and superb organisation.

IIC maintains good relationships with otherconservation organisations, both internationaland those based in the UK. Following thesigning of the memorandum of understandingbetween IIC and ICOM-CC and that betweenIIC and ICCROM, we have welcomedrepresentatives of the ICOM-CC DirectoryBoard and the ICCROM Council as observersat IIC Council meetings. Kristiane Strætkvern,Chair of the Directory Board of ICOM-CC,attended part of the meetings in January andby skype in May, while Alison Heritage,representing ICCROM, attended part of theJanuary meeting. In return, Jo Kirby Atkinsonattended part of the ICOM-CC Directory Boardmeeting in Amsterdam in March. Thesereciprocal arrangements will continue. SarahStaniforth, Velson Horie and Graham Vocewere present on behalf of IIC at the Icon 2016

How IIC works for you

Cornelia Weyer

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Conference in Birmingham on 15th – 17th June2016, where Sarah Staniforth made the keynoteclosing presentation and where IIC also had aTrade Fair stand.

Members and FellowsIIC Fellowship is awarded to those in theconservation profession who, in the opinion oftheir peers, have made a significantcontribution to the field as conservators,scientists, those in the field of education andother related fields. We are delighted towelcome Susan Bioletti, Cathy Challenor, DianaCollins, Paola Dindo, Mary Gridley, SophieLewincamp, Katy Lithgow, Richard Lithgow,Eleonora Nagy, Chandra Reedy, HanneleoreRoemich, Jane Rutherfoord and Giovanni Verrias Fellows.

Considerable efforts have been put intoengaging with our new Chinese members, whogained membership as a result of attendingthe 2014 Hong Kong Congress. Although so farfew have been able to renew theirmemberships, largely because of cultural andlanguage barriers, the fact that we have beenable to maintain our links with LCSD in HongKong and have a Chinese language page onthe IIC website enables us to communicatewith them. These developments have beenmade possible by a Chinese secretariat, atpresent in the person of Casey Liu, hosted byLCSD and supported by generous fundingfrom the Bei Shang Tang Foundation and theGetty Foundation, with a small amount of IICtransitional assistance.

How you have helped – WorldMembership, the BrommelleMemorial Fund and the Keck AwardEvery year, IIC members demonstrate their carefor and generosity towards the conservationprofession in different ways, including bydonating to IIC funds that are used to helpconservators or toward the public recognitionof the profession.

The IIC Opportunities Fund was established in2010 to provide membership to individuals andinstitutions who cannot easily afford the annualsubscription fees. By providing the benefits ofIIC membership, conservators andconservation professionals will be better ableto advance their skills and access the relevantknowledge for the care of heritage. Formerlyknown as the Professional Development Fund,

World members table

Council members withlocal conservators andUCL Qatar staff atdinner in Doha. Photo ©Mikkel Scharff

Gold World MembersJonathan Ashley-Smith

Silver World membersJosephine KirbyBarbara ReeveShayne RiversTheo Sturge

Bronze MembersJulian BickerstethShing-Wai ChanJulie DawsonShelley FletcherHelen GaniarisWendy JessupTuulikki KilpinenRoman KozlowskiXiaoyan Liang

Helen LloydFiona MacalisterJoanne PayneRobert PaytonOlive RaymondAlison RichmondDavid SaundersChristine SitwellSarah StaniforthDeborah Lee TrupinRobert WallerSarah Watkins-KenneyCornelia Weyer

World MembersCarole AbercaughSusan BiolettiJenny DickensSimon GillespieLisa Goldberg

Jane HendersonVelson HorieAngel JustoRuth KeliderChristine KellyDeborah LongJosefina MaldonadoJulia NagleJuanita NavarroSonia O'ConnorLaurence PaceJose dos Santos PestanaJohanna Marie QuadriziusCarmen SmitzTiina SonninenJames SpriggsShelley SvobodaJoyce TownsendGillian WalkerValentine Walsh


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Cultural Heritage, takes place in mid-November 2016. The timetable has beenagreed; the lecturers, most, if not all of whom,are IIC Fellows, have been recruited and theparticipants have been selected. As before,half are from China, the remainder are fromother parts of the world.

Banded membership rates are planned to beintroduced for the 2017–18 membership year,following a classification of countries based onper capita income as used by the InternationalCouncil of Museums (ICOM). It is hoped thatthis will make IIC membership more affordablefor those in those countries where averageincomes are very much lower.

when it only supported individuals through thegenerosity of members’ donations, it nowsupports institutions and in recent years, theFund has been focussed on institutions as thisprovides the benefits of IIC membership to agreater number of people. Donors to theOpportunities Fund are recognised as WorldMembers and through their generousdonations a number of institutions in Centraland South America, eastern Europe, Africa andeast Asia have been helped over the years.

There are several categories of Worldmembers (Gold, Silver, Bronze and WorldMember), according to the value of thedonation made to the Opportunities Fund, butthe importance of the generous donationsmade by you, our members, to help colleaguesin parts of the world where conservation isdifficult or a particularly poorly fundedprofession cannot be overstated. We wouldlike to express our gratitude to the memberswho have given so generously this year:

The Brommelle Memorial Fund, established in1990 in memory of Norman Brommelle,Secretary-General of IIC between 1958 and1988, is used to provide some financialassistance to conservation students who are IICmembers and wish to attend the Institute’sinternational Congresses. Recently, yourdonations have helped several students to attendthe 2014 Congress in Hong Kong and similarlywill help 18 to come to Los Angeles in 2016.

The IIC Keck Award, generously endowed bySheldon and Caroline Keck to commemoratetheir shared lives of distinguished achievementin conservation, is a cash award presented atthe IIC Congress to the individual or groupwho has in the opinion of the Council, advisedby the IIC Awards and Grants Committee,contributed most towards promoting thepublic understanding and appreciation of thework of the conservation profession. Yourdonations to this fund are enabling us tocontinue to recognise and encourage bothexcellence and the public awareness ofconservation. The winner in 2014, for example,was the Royal British Columbia Museum,Canada for their Public Conservation Project‘The Chinese Freemason’s Lantern’ and theaward was presented during the Hong KongCongress.

Our future plansThe 2016 Los Angeles Congress takes place inSeptember 2016 and the last tasks towards theproduction of the preprints, organisation of thetimetable and tours and other aspects are wellunder way. Planning is also already beginningfor the 2018 Congress.

The next IIC-ITCC Course, on the subject ofNon-destructive Analysis in the Conservation of

Courtyard in the Palace Museum. Photo © Mikkel Scharff

Conservator from theRoyal British ColumbiaMuseum,Canada, atwork on the ChineseFreemason’s Lanternduring the PublicConservation Project in2014. Photo© the RoyalBritish ColumbiaMuseum


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IIC’s financial position has becomemuch healthier in the past couple ofyears as a result of changing how ourpublications are produced. IIC is nowconsistently producing a surplus. Allorganisations, particularly thoserelying on membership, face longterm challenges arising from majorshifts in work, social and financialactivities. Council now has resourcesto formulate and implement strategicchanges in response.

Throughout its history, the successesof IIC have been the result ofconsistent efforts by its members.Future successes will be created bycurrent members imagining andimplementing new responses to newchallenges. The bulk of our activities– for Council, publications,congresses, website, social mediaand so on – are carried out bydedicated volunteers. All of uswelcome offers of additional helpthat will increase or improve what IICcan contribute to the preservation ofour heritage.

Investment policyIIC manages its assets by splitting thembetween cash held in interest-bearing accountsand equities-based funds. With theconsiderable fall in interest rates on depositand the consistently good returns fromequities, the charity has adjusted its investmentpolicy. The cash holding is being reduced to alevel that provides flexibility and sufficientlyrapid response. The remainder of the assets isbeing invested in equities where long term

returns are historically far greater. Our brokers,Brewin Dolphin, have provided appropriateadvice over a number of years. Income fromthe investments is reinvested to rebuild IIC’sreserves.

This financial year has seen very low returnsfrom cash holdings and a number ofoscillations in the equity market. There was aconsequence loss in value of investments fromJuly 2015 to June 2016, and it is anticipatedthat movements of the stock market up anddown will continue.

Reserves policyThe charity has a policy of maintainingunrestricted reserves at a minimum of oneyear’s core expenditure (approximately£265,000) to enable the charity to continueproductive operations in the event of a shortfallin funding or exceptional financial demand. Asa result of changes in IIC’s operations in recentyears, unrestricted reserves have risen this yearto c. £476,000. This new situation is enablingIIC to rethink its activities and response to risk.These additional reserves will be used toaddress currently identified risks andopportunities.

Risk Assessment PolicyAll charitable organisations are required todevelop a risk register of potential threats tothe organisation’s health and survival. The IICCouncil assesses potential risks andopportunities to IIC primarily under thefollowing headings: Publications; Conferences;Financial; Membership; Communications;Governance; Position in the wider heritageworld. IIC has a formal risk register andmonitoring process, where risks andappropriate measures are identified. Thehighest risks identified were: Fraud by staff;Decline in membership; Reduction inwebmaster capacity; Illness/departure of criticalstaff. The risk register is considered and revisedat each Council meeting.

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Response to RisksThe Council has continued to assess the majorrisks faced by the IIC and kept all other risksunder review during the year. IIC councilconsiders and revises its Risk Register atregular intervals. The principal risks fall underthe categories of fraud, membership declineand illness or loss of critical staff, including thewebmaster, as the website is critical to IIC'soperations.

Unfortunately, one of these unwelcome risksoccurred this year. A small-scale fraud wasspotted by one of our financial serviceproviders. This was rapidly addressed by theOfficers and the staff with the invaluableassistance of our solicitors, Slaughter and May,and accountants, Kingston Smith. Thebookkeeping processes are therefore beingexamined and will be renewed in comingmonths.

A number of membership initiatives areunderway, particularly to encouragemembership. Initial changes to membershipcategories and discounts for non-traditionalareas of activity are being introduced. The first(only because it is the easiest to trial) has beenthe introduction of reduced rates for retiredindividual members and for retired Fellows,which this year has enabled 44 members tocontinue their involvement with IIC. Furtherchanges are planned for next year’smembership cycle.

The website has become increasinglyimportant and active in IIC’s work, so planningis underway to develop it further. Theincreasing workload and demands on the teamof volunteers is prompting reconsideration ofthe staffing and funding for delivery of this vitalactivity.

As IIC expands its activities, the pressures onthe office have also increased, with consequentneeds for new skills and prompt response. Anadditional part time Membership Secretary, inthe person of Tina Churcher, has beenemployed and other options are beingexplored.

Summary of Council members’responsibilitiesManagement and control of the Institute isvested in the Council which meets three timesa year. The Council members (who are alsodirectors of the International Institute forConservation of Historic and Artistic Works forthe purposes of company law) are responsiblefor preparing the Council Report and thefinancial statements in accordance withapplicable law and United KingdomAccounting Standards (United KingdomGenerally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the Council members toprepare financial statements for each financialyear which give a true and fair view of the stateof affairs of the charitable company and of theincoming resources and application ofresources, including the income andexpenditure, of the charitable company for thatperiod. The Council are responsible forkeeping proper accounting records whichdisclose with reasonable accuracy at any timethe financial position of the company and toenable them to ensure that the financialstatements comply with the Companies Act2006. They are also responsible forsafeguarding the assets of the company andhence for taking reasonable steps for theprevention and detection of fraud and otherirregularities.

The Council members who held office at thedate of the approval of the full Annual Report(30th November 2016) each confirm that:

• so far as they were aware, there is norelevant audit information (informationrequired by the company’s auditors inconnection with preparing their report) ofwhich the company’s auditors are unaware;and

• as directors of the company, they have takenall the steps that they ought to have taken inorder to make themselves aware of anyrelevant audit information and to establishthat the company’s auditors are aware ofthat information.


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All gains and losses for the period are included in the Statement of Financial activities and arisefrom continuing operations.

The full audited Reports and Accounts for the year ending 30th June 2016 are lodged with theCharity Commission and Companies House once approved at the Annual General Meeting andwill be available for download from the IIC website (https://www.iiconservation.org/about/core-documents).

UnrestrictedFunds

RestrictedFunds

Total 2016 Total 2015

£ £ £

Income from:

Donations 403 69,152 69,555 28,581

Investments 12,728 - 12,728 1,267

Charitable activities 282,163 - 282,163 294,018

Total 295,294 69,152 364,446 323,866

Expenditure on:

Charitable activities 229,290 35,345 264,635 233,581

Total 229,290 35,345 264,635 233,581

Net gains/(losses) on investments

(6,341) 739 (5,602) 13,376

Net income 59,663 34,546 94,209 103,661

Transfer between funds (9,626) 9,626

Net movement in funds 50,037 44,172 94,209 103,661

Funds brought forward 425,612 80,726 506,338 402,677

Fund Balances carried forward at 30th June 2016

475,649 124,898 600,547 506,338

Statement of Financial Activities(including income and expenditure account) for the year ended 30th June 2016


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These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions withinPart 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on 30thNovember 2016 and signed on their behalf by Velson Horie, Treasurer.

Registered company number 481522, Registered Charity number 206977.

2016 2016 2015 2015

£ £ £ £

Fixed Assets

Tangible assets 1,396 943

Investments 430,068 428,323

431,464 429,266

Current Assets

Debtors 157,503 104,251

Cash at bank and in hand 243,979 137,025

401,482 241,276

Creditors: Amounts falling due

within one year (232,399) (164,204)

Net Current Assets/ (Liabilities) 169,083 77,072

Total Net Assets 600,547 506,338

Funds

Restricted funds 124,898 80,726

Unrestricted funds 475,649 425,612

600,547 506,338

Balance sheet as at 30th June 2016


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Sarah Staniforth

David Saunders Mikkel Scharff Valentine Walsh

Jerry Podany Julian Bickersteth

Council membersPresident: Sarah Staniforth

(President Emeritus: Jerry Podany⋕)

Vice-Presidents: Julian Bickersteth‡, David Saunders, Mikkel Scharff, ValentineWalsh*

Secretary–General: Jo Kirby Atkinson

Treasurer: Velson Horie

Director of Publications: Joyce Townsend

Director of Communications: Julian Bickersteth*

Ordinary Members: Lorenzo Appolonia, Shing-wai Chan‡, Stavroula Golfomitsou,Amber Kerr, Stephen Koob, Thomas Learner, Velayudhan Nair,Austin Nevin, Barbara Reeve, Tiina Sonninen, Alice Tsang*,Valentine Walsh‡, Cornelia Weyer‡

‡ Retired at the Annual General Meeting of 25th January 2016* Elected at the Annual General Meeting of 25th January 2016⋕ Invited to participate at the Council Meetings of 14–15 September 2015, 25–26 January 2016and 8–9 May 2016


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Copyright for allphotos of membersand former membersof Council is held bythe persons shown.

Jo Kirby Atkinson

Lorenzo Appolonia Stavroula Golfomitsou Velayudhan Nair Austin Nevin

Velson Horie Joyce Townsend

Stephen Koob

Barbara Reeve Tiina Sonninen Alice Tsang

Thomas Learner Amber Kerr


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IIC OfficersSarah Staniforth (IIC President, Chair)

Jo Kirby Atkinson (IIC Secretary-General)

Velson Horie (IIC Treasurer)

Joyce Townsend (IIC Director of Publications)

Julian Bickersteth (IIC Director of Communications)

The Officers meet three times each year to review IIC’s policies and future planning in preparationfor the Council as a whole at subsequent Council meetings.

Finance CommitteeVelson Horie (IIC Treasurer, Chair)

Sarah Staniforth (IIC President)


Mikkel Scharff (IIC Vice-President)

Richard Kerschner

Invited external representative: Steve Oliver, Brewin Dolphin

The Finance Committee meets three times a year with the remit of reviewing the IIC’s financialmatters.

Membership committeeDavid Saunders (IIC Vice-President, Chair)

Sarah Staniforth (IIC President)

Velson Horie (IIC Treasurer, Chair)

Awards & Grants CommitteeStephen Koob (Chair)

Barbara Berrie

Aviva Burnstock

Cornelia Weyer

Communications teamJulian Bickersteth (IIC Vice-President, Chair)

Athanasios Velios (Web Master)

Heather Ravenberg (assistant to the Web Master

Panagiotis Galatis (assistant to the Web Master)

Amber Kerr (Social Networks Editor)

Sharra Grow (Assistant Social Networks Editor)

Sagita Sunara (Social Networks Assistant)

Barbara Borghese (Editor of News in Conservation)

Kate Stonor (IIC Web Editor)

Clare Finn (IIC Enquiries Forum Co-ordinator)

Eike Friedrich (Electronic Mail co-ordinator)

Kristen DeGhetaldi (Studies in Conservation Associate Editor for Social Media)


Graham Voce, Executive Secretary


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IIC StaffGraham Voce, Executive Secretary

Valerie Compton Taylor, Bookkeeper and Membership Secretary (until April 2016)

Mary Breading, Bookkeeper (from May 2016)

Tina Churcher, Membership Secretary (from April 2016)

Patricia Gameiro, Office assistant (until January 2016)

Studies in ConservationEditor-in-Chief: Chandra L. Reedy, University of Delaware, USA

Editorial Board: Aviva Burnstock, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Francesca Casadio, Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Giacomo Chiari, Conservation Science Consultant, USA

John Delaney, National Gallery of Art Washington, USA

Kristin deGhetaldi, University of Delaware, USA (from Spring 2016)

Stavroula Golfomitsou, UCL Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Carol Grissom, Smithsonian Museum’s Conservation Institute, USA (until end 2015)

ElizaBeth Guin, Architectural Conservator, USA

Alison Sawdy Heritage, ICCROM, Rome, Italy (until end 2015)

Gunnar Heydenreich, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Julio M. del Hoyo-Meléndez, The National Museum in Krakow, Poland

Philip A. Klausmeyer†, Worcester Art Museum, USA (until end 2015)

Stephen P. Koob, Corning Museum of Glass, USA

Christoph Krekel, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany (until end 2015)

Frances Lennard, University of Glasgow, UK

Kate Lewis, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (until end 2015)

Naomi Luxford, English Heritage, London, UK

David Scott, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, USA

Aaron N. Shugar, Buffalo State College, New York, USA

Matija Strlič, University College London, UK

Ken Sutherland, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

oel Taylor, Getty Conservation Institute, USA

Andrew Thorn, ARTCARE, Australia

Véronique Vergès-Belmin, Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques, France

IIC Advisors

AuditorsKingston Smith LLP

Devonshire House

60 Goswell Road

EC1M 7AD

BankersNational WestminsterBank PLC

38 Strand

London

WC2N 5JQ

SolicitorsSlaughter and May

One Bunhill Row

London

EC1Y 8YY

BrokersBrewin DolphinLimited

12 Smithfield Street

London

EC1A 9BD


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