Reflection and Evaluation

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Context: As our first main event of the year we hosted an event providing a whistle-stop tour of human origins - the talk was given by a lecturer within the archaeology department (Dr John McNabb). 

What went well about the event was it was well attended and we organised it well in advance (to ensure lecturer availability). The talk was informative but not too overwhelming (as sometimes archaeology and human evolution can be). We had good engagement with some very interesting questions in the Q&A. 

No event is ever 100% perfect, whilst there was nothing catastrophic with the event, although we did a relatively good job with publicising the event (as a small committee, sans social secretary) we may have had more people if we publicised it more. 

Improving next time I think would be working towards a way to submit questions before the Q&A would cut down the number of people scared to ask questions -- which I would be if I was not the host and ensuring it is well publicised. 

Next step is planning more overarching events and lectures (which we are in the process of) as they are well attended and ensuring the next committee is aware of some of the lessons learnt to adapt. And asking members what events they would like to see. 

The bunfight was very popular, maybe due to the colourful fliers, professional looking stand and possibly also the individually wrapped biscuits.
We had plenty of people helping on the stand at various times and organised its construction and destruction accordingly.

What did not go so well was that we had a large excess of fliers, it could have been that we had given some to members who were leaving and offered them throughout the day of bunfight or simply not have printed quite as many. This was because there was a large excess and this is not environmentally friendly.

Next time, the organisation aspect could be maintained and use of the poll system for slots when people represented the orchestra can be carried forward since this worked very well. 
Fliers could be printed in a lesser number and made more general so that if there were some leftover, they could be carried on for next year's event.

The next steps include ensuring that next year's committee receive this information and are able and confident enough to ask for advice from previous members to ensure a successful engagement with others at the Bunfight. This is very important for us as we need a continuous influx of new members in order to keep the orchestra going!