Training and events

Elevenses – Thursday 28th May

Join Liz and Alan for Elevenses on Thursday 28th May at 11am, to catch up with the MDY team and colleagues from other museums. You will have to bring your own drink and (quiet!) snack. We are going to focus on the topic of Users and their Experiences, but we won’t have an agenda. This […]

28 May 2020

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Writing About Photography

Writing About Photography: unlocking stories from the archives to create press releases for your collections About the Online Workshop: This is a (virtual) hands-on workshop on writing about photography for publication. Anyone who works with photographic collections knows that there are great stories hidden in the archives just waiting to be written about. In this […]

7 May 2020

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Collections Care in Lockdown: 5 weeks on

Collections Trust are running a livestream Q&A session with the collections care panel meeting to discuss developments over the last 5 weeks, new resources, and to answer more of your questions. The event will be streamed live via the Collections Trust YouTube channel on Tuesday 12 May from 14:00 BST. If you can’t join live, […]

12 May 2020

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NCVO Webinar – Involving Volunteers during the Pandemic

The volunteering landscape during coronavirus is constantly changing and it is hard to keep up to date with key changes and the latest guidance. In this webinar, NCVO’s volunteering development manager Shaun Delaney will help you to address this challenge by providing you with some top tips on involving and supporting volunteers and an overview […]

5 May 2020

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Tea &…  with CHWA Yorkshire and Humber

Tea &… with CHWA Yorkshire and Humber Starts Thursday 7 May, 3.15pm and fortnightly afterwards The Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance (CHWA) in Yorkshire and The Humber have created an online space to connect every couple of weeks for anyone who fancies it or needs it. They have no agenda…they thought it might initially be […]

7 May 2020

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Digital Works Podcast Live with Chris Unitt

On the Digital Works podcast, Substrakt’s Ash Mann speaks to people from across the arts, cultural, heritage and creative sectors to share best practice around digital. Chris Unitt is the founder of One Further, a digital analytics and user research agency that works with cultural and heritage organisations. Ash had already recorded a conversation with […]

6 May 2020

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Emergency Power Hour with Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy

In these unprecedented times, Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy wants to do all that it can to support the sector. As part of this, they are now offering a FREE hour of consultancy support every day on a first come first served basis to arts charities and CICs that may need help in the coming weeks. […]

17 March 2020

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Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2020

We are re-imagining Creativity & Wellbeing Week but keeping its core identity as a festival celebrating the groundbreaking work happening around the country bringing together culture, creativity, health and wellbeing. Our theme remains Positive Futures.

18 May 2020

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Rescheduled: Volunteers and Legal Compliance Webinar

We are looking forward to welcoming you to our rescheduled virtual Volunteers and Legal Compliance Webinar via Zoom on 15th May at 11am-12pm. The session will be facilitated by Naomi Korn, Managing Director, Naomi Korn Associates. If you have any questions before the session or have trouble logging into the session next week, please contact […]

15 May 2020

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Disposals – Livestream Q&A with Collections Trust

In association with the Social History Curators Group, this live panel event will discuss rationalisation within a social history context and answer your questions about disposals.

15 May 2020

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