Board of Directors Formally Elected

Last week members of The Amulet Centre voted to elect the society’s first board of Directors, these 10 directors will lead the project and run the community benefit society, now we have a board, volunteers can get involved with working groups.

You can read all about our new board below

Get in touch to find out how to and to express your interest in joining a working group. For example the project needs people to support these areas:

-Fundraising

-Community engagement

-Communications

-Artistic programming

-Volunteer engagement

-Researching other venues

-Building development

plus others

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