Training and events
Collections Review and Rationalisation
Collections rationalisation and review enables a museum to improve its understanding of a collection so that the collection can be used more effectively. This session will explore the benefits of collection reviews and rationalisation, to both the museum and visitors.
Heritage Day 2017
An event organised by the Heritage Alliance. This popular event offers delegates the chance to meet a wide range of colleagues from across the sector, hear eminent speakers address the latest issues affecting the future of our heritage.
Organising Your Volunteer Programme
Organiser – Voluntary Action Sheffield. This course focuses on the policies, processes, legal requirements and arrangements that any organisation needs to have in place for a volunteer programme.
Data Protection and the New General Data Protection Regulation
Organised by Voluntary Action Sheffield. This course combines the UK Data Protection Act and the forthcoming European Union (EU) led changes on Data Protection – the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Disaster Planning and Salvaging
Organised by the Natural History Museum. This one-day course has two parts. Part one focuses on strategic steps to manage the risks and effects a disaster might have on a collection.
Part two demonstrates the key practical conservation skills and techniques required to salvage a collection should disaster occur.
Fire in Old Buildings
Organised by The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Drawing on lessons learned from recent high-profile fires, this one day seminar from the SPAB will look at all aspects of fire prevention and management in historic buildings, as well as approaches to reconstruction when the worst happens.
Telling Heritage
Organised by The Ashmolean Museum. This unique and practical two day course blends together traditional storytelling and best practice in live heritage interpretation.
Motivating and Retaining Volunteers
Organised by Voluntary Action Sheffield. Recruiting volunteers is the single most expensive activity any volunteer programme undertakes, so holding onto the ones you have, and developing their contribution to the organisation, is a much more attractive option.
Volunteers and the Law
Organised by Voluntary Action Sheffield. What the law says about volunteering is fundamental knowledge for volunteer coordinators, senior managers and decision-makers.