Welcome to the Federation of Astronomical Societies website.

Please use the links at the top of the page to navigate between the different sections.

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Publicise your Events

Help us to advertise your society. If you submit your programme to the FAS website then we can publicise your events on the website and include them in the Newletter automatically. The Events page is intended for large events ie Star Parties, full day events whilst the Diary is intended to show societies normal programme of meetings.

To submit an Event go the the Events Page and click the 'Submit your own Event here' link below the menu bar. You will be prompted to enter a Title for the Event, The Description of the Event and an End Date to determine when to stop the advertising on the Events page of the website.

To submit a Diary go the the Diary Page and click the 'Submit your own Diary item here' link below the menu bar. You will be prompted to enter the year, month and start and end day's of the item and a description of the item. Once you have submitted the Event/Diary item it is passed to us for approval, once approved then the Event/Diary item will become visible on the website.

Consultation: The Importance of the FAS Regions

An important issue was raised at the AGM last October. There was a comment from the floor about how did societies find out what was going on at FAS Council meetings. The answer which I gave is that is where the FAS Regions and the Regional Representatives come in. The FAS has a number of recognised regions and each region is entitled to nominate a person to attend FAS Council meetings to represent their region. The idea is that the Representative can both bring information into the Council and provide feedback to the societies in their region.

The FAS Council is currently reviewing the entire way in which the FAS works. The Council is not presently in a position to enforce such changes onto the existing Regions. Requests for new Regions will in future require a detailed proposal for how the Region will operate. However, it would seem to be a matter of good governance that Regions should operate in a way which is accountable and delivers value to both their own member societies and to the FAS as a whole.

We would like to hear from the Regions what they think about the above, how they currently operate, whether they think that they should or could change the way that they currently operate. Do they believe that the FAS should bear the full cost of running the Regional Representatives?

If you have any comments on the above, then use the FAS Council feedback form.

The FAS is your Federation, help to improve it by getting involved.
Callum Potter - FAS President

New Handbook

We are planning to replace the current A5 handbook with an A4 ringbinder style handbook. We will then issue periodic updates to societies as the information contained within it changes. This will, in the long term, reduce the cost of producing the handbook as we will not need to reprint unchanging (static) data every year and only print and post the information that has changed. Most of the static data is available on the website, click on the Handbook link at the top of the page to see whats available online. Please email us with your comments.