Joy of Recording: Dave Clark

Joy of Recording: Dave Clark

Dave Clark, Ornithologist What a mindblast…Excuse the 60`s vernacular but as a 15 year old impressionable youth, leafing through the Woolies (Woolworth`s) record stack coming across the Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus is a mindblast, especially when you’re sheltering...
Interview: Victoria Kleanthous

Interview: Victoria Kleanthous

Victoria joined the GiGL team in May 2021 as a Data Assistant and is now one of our Community Officers working with our recorders, data providers and students. Victoria in front of vibrant red Acer leaves (© Dominic Ashworth) Town or countryside? Countryside. Summer...
GiGL in full colour: our first public facing annual report

GiGL in full colour: our first public facing annual report

By Mandy Rudd, GiGL CEO Part of our commitment as a community interest company (CIC) is to submit our annual accounts and a completed CIC34 form, to Companies House. The form includes sections to demonstrate how our activities have benefited the community we were set...
GiGL is Closed Week

GiGL is Closed Week

By Julie Cox, Senior Partnership Officer Donuts helping motivate staff (c) Maria Longley Like most organisations, we often find we have a list of things we’d like to do on a ‘rainy day’. But sometimes that rainy day never comes. A solution we’ve found helpful at GiGL...

The only way is up

Matt Davies, GiGL Data Manager, on the benefits of our latest software upgrade. After considerable effort to install, accurately migrate data and develop the custom reporting we need for our day-to-day work, our Recorder 6 database is now up and running. Having...