Training and events
Elevenses – Tuesday 29th March
Why employ an apprentice? And other steps towards inclusive recruitment
We talk to Melanie Shee from Creative & Cultural Skills about how they can help you to develop more diverse and inclusive employment practices, and we learn more about apprenticeships in museums – what an apprenticeship is and isn’t, and how to set one up.
Elevenses – Wednesday 16 March
Addressing the legacies of colonialism and slavery
How do we develop and use research which helps us understand collections and historic sites in honest and more inclusive ways? We’ll be talking to curators about links between museums, the former colonies of the British Empire, slavery and the Transatlantic slave trade.
Race and museums in Britain and Yorkshire today
Understand how the history of migration stories in Britain, and Yorkshire and the Humber, have influenced the ethnic make-up of Britain and our region, and how working with diverse communities through ethnically equitable practice increases your museum’s relevance, and how to do this.
This session will support you if you are seeking to understand, or advocate for, why and how your museum could apply ethnically equitable practice to broaden its relevance.
National Lottery Heritage Fund: Helping You Apply – Grants for £3,000 – £10,000 (North)
This informal 2 hour session will explore:
how heritage can be used to transform places and change lives;
what a well-planned project looks like and;
how to write a strong funding application to The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Collections Documentation : Inventory
A bitesize online session, exploring the management and documentation involved in the acquisition of objects, using Spectrum 5.0 procedures as a framework.
How do you manage objects coming into your organisation? Do you have problems with unsolicited donations and what do you do with the stuff you don’t want? How can a clear collections development policy help your organisation? What should you consider in acquisition-related decision-making?
East Riding & Northern Lincolnshire Museum Forum
All museums have lost income in the past two years, so we’ll explore ideas for commercial activity. How do you strike a balance between delivering your museum’s core purpose and running events that make a profit? We’ll hear from some museums that run commercial events to support their core purpose, and reflect on how to apply that. How do museums choose, develop and run their commercial activities and events, and what top tips will you take away?
West Yorkshire Museum Forum
Developing school and family audiences
Making our museums places that school and families want to visit is a key challenge. We’ll hear from a range of museums about what they’ve been doing, and gain some ideas about what you could do at your museum.
North Yorkshire Museum Forum
Our aim for museum forums in 2022 is to create “a professional day out” – a chance to catch up with your museum colleagues in the region, visit an interesting venue, get the most out of being at a site, hear some interesting case studies – and really to enjoy being out in a different museum with different colleagues!
South Yorkshire Museum Forum
Our aim for museum forums in 2022 is to create “a professional day out” – a chance to catch up with your museum colleagues in the region, visit an interesting venue, get the most out of being at a site, hear some interesting case studies – and really to enjoy being out in a different museum with different colleagues!
Volunteer Management Development
This series of three, online webinars will help museums to develop knowledge and skills in volunteer recruitment, volunteer management, and volunteer strategy development.
This webinar series is being hosted by volunteering consultants and specialists Laura Hamilton and Carol Carbine, who both bring more than 40 years of volunteer management experience in the VCSE sector.