Grow your Digital Community – webinar 1
How to work with partners and volunteers to improve capacity and quality of heritage data collection and interpretation
Are you looking for innovative ways to collaborate with partners and volunteers to enhance your organisation’s capacity and the quality of your initiatives? Are you curious about the potential of digital tools and platforms to assist in achieving your goals?
Over the past two years, The National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) has supported 25 digital projects as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage initiative. The funding has helped projects innovate how they work with volunteers and with digital and community partners, to better meet organisational goals. The NLHF is hosting two free webinars in September to hear from these projects, who will share practical insights, advice and takeaways. They will help unpack and demystify “digital” approaches and the tools they used for working with volunteers and partners.
Thursday 21 Sept 10am-12noon (on Zoom)
In this webinar you will hear about:
- The benefits of working digitally with volunteers and partners to improve how you collect heritage data, and how you interpret it
- Common challenges when collaborating with partners and volunteers digitally to improve data collection or use of heritage data, and how to overcome them
- How to get started with the right digital tools and platforms when collaborating with volunteers and partners
The second webinar, on Thursday 28 September, is How to engage grassroots communities and build local relevance using digital technologies.
The webinars are for anyone working in small to medium sized organisations, working with heritage. In particular, it will be useful for:
- those working to engage grassroots communities or people living locally to their venue
• people wanting to deliver community-led digital programmes
• those developing heritage related content or public programming - people establishing or leading volunteer initiatives or teams
Sessions include speakers from a wide range of organisations including Wikimedia, Portland Museum, Glasgow Women’s Library, Museum of London Archeology, Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Nerve Centre, VocalEyes, Royal Horticultural Society, University of Exeter, and Butterfly Conservation
Income from Hires
Museum Development East Midlands (MDEM) and West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) are delighted to be working with Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy to offer a suite of fundraising workshops for 2023/24.
The programme consists of eight, two-hour online workshops which will explore income generation from digital fundraising to developing on-site retail. Each workshop will present key theories and case studies, allowing for discussion on practical application. There is no requirement to attend every session, although they complement each other, they also work as stand-alone workshops. Read about the full programme of events.
Income from Hires
Friday 1 December, 10am-12noon
This workshop will support participants to think about how to best use their space to generate income. This might be through regular meeting room hire, through events, or longer-term leasing. The session will include examples of museums who have generated significant income through utilising their buildings, and give top tips for those wishing to start, or grow a room hire business.
Places are very limited, maximum one delegate per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
Accessibility
This event will be auto-captioned through Zoom. If you would benefit from any other form of access support, including live captioning, please answer ‘yes’ to the access requirements question on the booking form and email the WMMD team as early as possible stating the support you require.
This event will be hosted by Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy (Cause4) on their Zoom account. By booking onto this event you give us permission to share your name, email address and access needs with them for the purpose of the event administration. The Cause4 privacy policy can be viewed here
All participants will receive an email containing a Zoom link to the training prior to the event. The email will be sent to the email address used for booking. If you have not received an email the day before the event please contact us.
If you can’t see the booking button the course is fully booked. If you would like to join the waiting list please email wmmd@ironbridge.org.uk
Online Ticketing
Museum Development East Midlands (MDEM) and West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) are delighted to be working with Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy to offer a suite of fundraising workshops for 2023/24.
The programme consists of eight, two-hour online workshops which will explore income generation from digital fundraising to developing on-site retail. Each workshop will present key theories and case studies, allowing for discussion on practical application. There is no requirement to attend every session, although they complement each other, they also work as stand-alone workshops. Read about the full programme of events.
Online Ticketing
Tuesday 24 October, 10am-12noon
This session will support participants to consider ticketing events, one-off activity or on an ongoing basis for their museums Attendees will gain an understanding into online ticketing; consider how to integrate ticketing into day to day activities; and cover key things to consider when choosing a system to use.
Places are very limited, maximum one delegate per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
Accessibility
This event will be auto-captioned through Zoom. If you would benefit from any other form of access support, including live captioning, please answer ‘yes’ to the access requirements question on the booking form and email the WMMD team as early as possible stating the support you require.
This event will be hosted by Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy (Cause4) on their Zoom account. By booking onto this event you give us permission to share your name, email address and access needs with them for the purpose of the event administration. The Cause4 privacy policy can be viewed here
All participants will receive an email containing a Zoom link to the training prior to the event. The email will be sent to the email address used for booking. If you have not received an email the day before the event please contact us.
If you can’t see the booking button the course is fully booked. If you would like to join the waiting list please email wmmd@ironbridge.org.uk
Art Fund: Going Places Collaboration and Network Building Events (26 October)
Art Fund is launching a new UK-wide programme, ‘Going Places’, that aims to engage and involve underrepresented audiences with museum collections through high quality, collaborative touring exhibitions and public programmes. The project will establish five networks of 3-5 small to mid-sized museums, with each network producing two touring exhibitions over five years (2025-2030).
It has received a development phase grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to establish Going Places, and is currently seeking applications from interested museums, galleries, arts organisations and/ or networks of these. Further details of the project can be found here: https://www.artfund.org/professional/get-funding/programmes/going-places
Thursday 21 September, 10.30 – 16.45, Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, Wales, (a bilingual event – we welcome participation in Welsh)
Wednesday 27 September, 10.30 – 16.45, Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Wednesday 11 October, 10.00 – 14.15, online
Thursday 26 October, 10.00 – 14.15, online (a bilingual event – we welcome participation in Welsh)
These Collaboration and Network Building events will introduce participants to the programme whilst enabling museums to build connections with organisations that share common interests and explore opportunities for working collaboratively, along with the audience benefits this brings. We strongly recommend that anyone interested in applying attend if possible.
The full programme, along with how to sign up, can be found here:
In-person: https://calendly.com/art-fund/going-places-building-networks-workshop?month=2023-09
Online: https://calendly.com/art-fund/going-places-online-workshops-for-museums?month=2023-10
Art Fund: Going Places Collaboration and Network Building Events (11 October)
Art Fund is launching a new UK-wide programme, ‘Going Places’, that aims to engage and involve underrepresented audiences with museum collections through high quality, collaborative touring exhibitions and public programmes. The project will establish five networks of 3-5 small to mid-sized museums, with each network producing two touring exhibitions over five years (2025-2030).
It has received a development phase grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to establish Going Places, and is currently seeking applications from interested museums, galleries, arts organisations and/ or networks of these. Further details of the project can be found here: https://www.artfund.org/professional/get-funding/programmes/going-places
Thursday 21 September, 10.30 – 16.45, Amgueddfa Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth, Wales, (a bilingual event – we welcome participation in Welsh)
Wednesday 27 September, 10.30 – 16.45, Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum, Lisburn, Northern Ireland
Wednesday 11 October, 10.00 – 14.15, online
Thursday 26 October, 10.00 – 14.15, online (a bilingual event – we welcome participation in Welsh)
These Collaboration and Network Building events will introduce participants to the programme whilst enabling museums to build connections with organisations that share common interests and explore opportunities for working collaboratively, along with the audience benefits this brings. We strongly recommend that anyone interested in applying attend if possible.
The full programme, along with how to sign up, can be found here:
In-person: https://calendly.com/art-fund/going-places-building-networks-workshop?month=2023-09
Online: https://calendly.com/art-fund/going-places-online-workshops-for-museums?month=2023-10
Wellbeing Plan Lunch Time session
Join GLAM Cares (a sector support network for people working with communities in museums, libraries and archives) and the Museums Association to explore your wellbeing needs
In this interactive session they will discuss the factors that have a positive or negative impact on your wellbeing and look to identify what support you need by completing the MA’s Individual Wellbeing Plan.
You will be send the joining link by Friday 15 September.
Find out more and reserve your place.
Monday 18 September, 1pm-2pm
Via Zoom
Good Uses of Digital Tech in Museums and the Cultural Sector
- What does the ‘good’ use of digital technology in museums and the cultural sector look like?
- How can ‘the digital good’ contribute to placemaking in Birmingham?
Join Digital Good Network & Birmingham Museums Trust to hear from digital culture projects on these themes, find out about funding opportunities and network with leading Birmingham arts and cultural organisations.
Speakers will include Sara Wajid, Birmingham Museums Trust; Anita Shervington, BLAST Fest; Helen Kennedy, Digital Good Network and Ros Williams, Digital Good Network.
Good Uses of Digital Tech in Museums and the Cultural Sector
Thursday 29 September, 6pm – 8pm
BOMLab Birmingham – 12 Dudley Street, Birmingham B5 4EA
Coffee and Chatter: Ionising Radiation: The Hazard Lurking in the Basement or in Plain Sight?
Grab your morning cuppa…
Join the WMMD team and our guest speaker Tony Butterworth. Tony is the Radiation Protection Adviser and Radioactive Waste Adviser, University of Bristol and will give an informal introduction to the range of ionising radiation hazards which museums may encounter or may not be aware of; from collections and exhibits to radon gas within buildings, and discuss the applicable UK legislation, government regulation and the cost of getting it wrong.
This talk may be useful for relevant museum heads of service, curators and conservation managers, and also those in a senior role within facilities management.
Coffee and Chatter is also the perfect opportunity to share what’s happening at your museum, exchange ideas with colleagues across the region and hear about the latest sector guidance and news.
10.30am-11.30am
Zoom details:
https://zoom.us/j/99254865285?pwd=R2xiUlUzOFdWMGJFQXpyL0E4cHpNQT09
Meeting ID: 992 5486 5285
Password: 579046
Coffee and Chatter will be auto-captioned.
Coffee and Chatter: From managing employees to managing volunteers
Grab your morning cuppa…
Join the WMMD team and our guest speaker Sebastian Amos, Transport Museum Wythall. Sebastian found that after spending many years managing groups of engineers the change of approach required to manage volunteers was a whole new ball game. We will explore his journey, the issues and benefits.
Coffee and Chatter is also the perfect opportunity to share what’s happening at your museum, exchange ideas with colleagues across the region and hear about the latest sector guidance and news.
10.30am-11.30am
Zoom details:
https://zoom.us/j/99254865285?pwd=R2xiUlUzOFdWMGJFQXpyL0E4cHpNQT09
Meeting ID: 992 5486 5285
Password: 579046
Coffee and Chatter will be auto-captioned.
Coffee and Chatter: National Lottery Project Grants
Grab your morning cuppa…
Join the WMMD team and our guest speakers Zelina Garland-Rowan and Stuart Tulloch from Arts Council England (ACE). Zelina and Stuart will give an introduction to National Lottery Project Grants, ACE’s open access programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations of all sizes, regardless of Accredited status, awarding grants of £1,000 up to £100,000. We’ll discuss eligibility, how a grant can support your museum, and how to get further advice with an application.
Coffee and Chatter is also the perfect opportunity to share what’s happening at your museum, exchange ideas with colleagues across the region and hear about the latest sector guidance and news.
10.30am-11.30am
Zoom details:
https://zoom.us/j/99254865285?pwd=R2xiUlUzOFdWMGJFQXpyL0E4cHpNQT09
Meeting ID: 992 5486 5285
Password: 579046
Coffee and Chatter will be auto-captioned.
