“Winter is Coming”: Maintaining collections care standards during an energy crisis
As energy costs rise, and the pressure of higher bills grows, how can museums ensure that they safely maintain their collections?
Join Jane Thompson-Webb, Conservation Team Leader at Birmingham Museum Trust for this two hour online session. Jane will look at some of the steps we can take in our collection stores, exhibition spaces and offices to reduce our energy consumption whilst continuing to protect collections.
The session will be live captioned by MyClearText.
Places are limited, no more than two delegates 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.
All participants will receive an email containing a Zoom link prior to the event. The email will be sent to the email address used for booking. If you have not received an email by the day before the event please contact us.
If you can’t see the booking button the event is fully booked. To join the waiting list please email wmmd@ironbridge.co.uk
“Winter is Coming”: Maintaining collections care standards during an energy crisis
Tuesday 4 October, 1.30pm-3.30pm
Online
Museum Energy Management: Preparing for the winter (workshop and surgeries)
This two hour workshop with energy management specialists Pilio will explore low and no cost interventions to help save energy in preparation for winter. We’ll cover energy management; energy monitoring; boiler settings; internal temperatures; fabric and drafts; lighting; night use minimisation and the use of environmental sensors.
A limited number of follow-up surgeries will be available to attendees; details of how to arrange a surgery will be shared during the event.
The session will be live captioned by MyClearText.
Places are limited, no more than two delegates per organisation. Priority will be given to attendees from non-NPO and non-National museums in the West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
All participants will receive an email containing a Zoom link prior to the event. The email will be sent to the email address used for booking. If you have not received an email by the day before the event please contact us.
If you can’t see the booking button the event is fully booked. To join the waiting list please email wmmd@ironbridge.co.uk
Museum Energy Management: Preparing for the Winter
Wednesday 28 September, 2pm-4pm
Online
Carbon Literacy training March 2023 – sessions 2 and 3
Our final round of Carbon Literacy training for 2022/23 is now open for bookings from museums across the Midlands.
West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) and Museum Development East Midlands (MDEM) are partnering to deliver several rounds of training, using the Carbon Literacy for Museums Toolkit developed by Museum Development and the Carbon Literacy Trust as part of the national Roots and Branches project.
What is a Carbon Literacy course? The Carbon Literacy course will give you an understanding of what climate change is, the scale of its effects, and how museums fit into the global, national and local picture to address climate change. You become Carbon Literate by making an individual pledge, and an organisational pledge to take back to your museum, of what you can do, and is in your power to achieve, to make a significant difference to your carbon impact.
Who can attend? Anyone – we welcome all trustees, managers, volunteers and paid staff who want to understand the part they can play in tackling the climate emergency.
What’s involved? The course is made up of four modules – the first module is pre-recorded and there are three Zoom sessions:
- Tuesday 7 March 2023 – the pre-recorded module will be sent to you. It lasts 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tuesday 14 March 2023, 10am-12.30pm – Zoom session 1
- Thursday 16 March 2023, 10am-12noon – Zoom session 2
- Thursday 16 March 2023, 1pm-3pm – Zoom session 3
Attendees will be certified as Carbon Literate once they’ve successfully completed the course. Therefore, it is essential you are able to attend all three Zoom sessions.
Maximum two attendees per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the East Midlands and West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
Accessibility
This event will be auto captioned through Zoom. If you would benefit from other forms 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.
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 the booking page doesn’t appear these training sessions are fully booked. Please email wmmd@ironbridge.org.uk to join the waiting list.
Carbon Literacy training January 2023 – sessions 2 and 3
Our next round of Carbon Literacy training is now open for bookings from museums across the Midlands.
West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) and Museum Development East Midlands (MDEM) are partnering to deliver several rounds of training, using the Carbon Literacy for Museums Toolkit developed by Museum Development and the Carbon Literacy Trust as part of the national Roots and Branches project.
What is a Carbon Literacy course? The Carbon Literacy course will give you an understanding of what climate change is, the scale of its effects, and how museums fit into the global, national and local picture to address climate change. You become Carbon Literate by making an individual pledge, and an organisational pledge to take back to your museum, of what you can do, and is in your power to achieve, to make a significant difference to your carbon impact.
Who can attend? Anyone – we welcome all trustees, managers, volunteers and paid staff who want to understand the part they can play in tackling the climate emergency.
What’s involved? The course is made up of four modules – the first module is pre-recorded and there are three Zoom sessions:
- Tuesday 10 January 2023 – the pre-recorded module will be sent to you. It lasts 1 hour 30 minutes
- Tuesday 17 January 2023, 10am-12.30pm – Zoom session 1
- Thursday 19 January 2023, 10am-12noon – Zoom session 2
- Thursday 19 January 2023, 1pm-3pm – Zoom session 3
Attendees will be certified as Carbon Literate once they’ve successfully completed the course. Therefore, it is essential you are able to attend all three Zoom sessions.
Maximum two attendees per organisation. Priority will be given to delegates from non-NPO and non-National museums in the East Midlands and West Midlands which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
Accessibility
This event will be auto captioned through Zoom. If you would benefit from other forms 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.
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 the booking page doesn’t appear these training sessions are fully booked. Please email wmmd@ironbridge.org.uk to join the waiting list.
Working with Legacies of Colonialism in Museums Meet Up
Social History Curators Group is hosting an informal meeting for people engaging with the legacies of colonialism in our museums.
It’s an open discussion group to:
- enable peer mentoring
- share and test ideas and experiences in a friendly space
- provide opportunities to be creative
- build our knowledge and confidence in this area of emerging practice
Register here by 5pm, Wednesday 24 August.
Volunteer Recruitment – focusing on inclusive development
This is the second in a series of three Volunteer Management Development training events from West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) and Museum Development UK (MDUK).
As a result of attending Volunteer Recruitment, participants will become equipped or underpin skills and knowledge, including and not limited to:
- Designing attractive and diverse volunteer roles whilst considering different approaches to recruitment
- Planning for volunteer recruitment, measuring success, and monitoring and evaluation
Book Volunteer Recruitment
Thursday 20 October, 9.30am-1pm
Bookings are being taken by SHARE, which is the Museum Development provider for the East of England. They will share your booking data with WMMD.
Priority will be given to non-NPO and non-National museums which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
Session leaders:
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.
Laura has a strong understanding of volunteer management within small and medium-sized organisations and of working with staff to build volunteer management confidence and capacity. Laura runs a successful consultancy (Laura Hamilton Consulting), with a specialist focus on volunteer engagement and management, and training and mentoring for volunteer managers.
Carol specialises in training/ facilitation and problem-solving/ conflict resolution, working within the overseas aid, animal welfare, disability and heritage sectors. Carol is a qualified NLP Practitioner and offers bespoke training and facilitation through her own consultancy (Carol Carbine Consulting).
The sessions are most suited to groups and organisations that are:
- Open to learning and exploring changes to involving volunteers
- Keen to learn more about and embed inclusive practice into their work with volunteers
- Reviewing their volunteering strategy
All training will be delivered using a webinar format via Zoom.
Bookings close five days before each session date. Participants may book onto one, two, or all three training events.
Other webinars in the series:
Webinar 1: Volunteer Management
Thursday 8 September, 9.30am-1pm
- Reflective practice that leads to sustainable volunteer retention, development and meaningful experiences
Webinar 3: Developing a Volunteering Strategy
Thursday 17 November 9.30am-1pm
- Volunteer strategy development that is linked to organisational values, vision and goals
Volunteer Management
This is the first webinar in a series of three Volunteer Management Development training events from West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) and Museum Development UK (MDUK)
As a result of attending this webinar, participants will become equipped or underpin skills and knowledge, including and not limited to:
- Reflective practice that leads to sustainable volunteer retention, development and meaningful experiences
Book Volunteer Management
Thursday 8 September, 9.30am-1pm
Bookings are being taken by SHARE, which is the Museum Development provider for the East of England. They will share your booking data with WMMD.
Priority will be given to non-NPO and non-National museums which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
Session leaders:
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.
Laura has a strong understanding of volunteer management within small and medium-sized organisations and of working with staff to build volunteer management confidence and capacity. Laura runs a successful consultancy (Laura Hamilton Consulting), with a specialist focus on volunteer engagement and management, and training and mentoring for volunteer managers.
Carol specialises in training/ facilitation and problem-solving/ conflict resolution, working within the overseas aid, animal welfare, disability and heritage sectors. Carol is a qualified NLP Practitioner and offers bespoke training and facilitation through her own consultancy (Carol Carbine Consulting).
The sessions are most suited to groups and organisations that are:
- Open to learning and exploring changes to involving volunteers
- Keen to learn more about and embed inclusive practice into their work with volunteers
- Reviewing their volunteering strategy
All training will be delivered using a webinar format via Zoom.
Bookings close five days before each session date. Participants may book onto one, two, or all three training events.
The other webinars in the series:
Webinar 2: Volunteer Recruitment – focusing on inclusive recruitment
Thursday 20 October, 9.30am-1pm
- Designing attractive and diverse volunteer roles whilst considering different approaches to recruitment
- Planning for volunteer recruitment, measuring success, and monitoring and evaluation
Webinar 3: Developing a Volunteering Strategy
Thursday 17 November 9.30am-1pm
- Volunteer strategy development that is linked to organisational values, vision and goals
Developing a Volunteer Strategy
This is the third webinar in a series of three Volunteer Management Development training events from West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) and Museum Development UK (MDUK).
As a result of attending Developing a Volunteering Strategy, participants will become equipped or underpin skills and knowledge, including and not limited to:
- Volunteer strategy development that is linked to organisational values, vision and goals
Book Developing a Volunteering Strategy
Thursday 17 November 9.30am-1pm
Bookings are being taken by SHARE, which is the Museum Development provider for the East of England. They will share your booking data with WMMD.
Priority will be given to non-NPO and non-National museums which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation.
Session leaders:
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.
Laura has a strong understanding of volunteer management within small and medium-sized organisations and of working with staff to build volunteer management confidence and capacity. Laura runs a successful consultancy (Laura Hamilton Consulting), with a specialist focus on volunteer engagement and management, and training and mentoring for volunteer managers.
Carol specialises in training/ facilitation and problem-solving/ conflict resolution, working within the overseas aid, animal welfare, disability and heritage sectors. Carol is a qualified NLP Practitioner and offers bespoke training and facilitation through her own consultancy (Carol Carbine Consulting).
The sessions are most suited to groups and organisations that are:
- Open to learning and exploring changes to involving volunteers
- Keen to learn more about and embed inclusive practice into their work with volunteers
- Reviewing their volunteering strategy
All training will be delivered using a webinar format via Zoom.
Bookings close five days before each session date. Participants may book onto one, two, or all three training events.
The other webinars in the series:
Volunteer Management
Thursday 8 September, 9.30am-1pm
- Reflective practice that leads to sustainable volunteer retention, development and meaningful experiences
Volunteer Recruitment – focusing on inclusive recruitment
Thursday 20 October, 9.30am-1pm
- Designing attractive and diverse volunteer roles whilst considering different approaches to recruitment
- Planning for volunteer recruitment, measuring success, and monitoring and evaluation
Assessing your Digital Capacity (session 3)
For museums to be able to take full advantage of everything digital can offer, they must first understand how and where digital sits within their organisation. The Digital Culture Compass is a powerful tool which can help a museum to evaluate how digital relates to their organisation. This course helps smaller museums understand how to use the toolkit before applying it to their own organisations.
In this three part workshop from Culture24, participants will be guided through using parts of the Digital Culture Compass to complete an assessment of some of their museum’s digital activities. They will leave with the confidence, tools and resources needed to complete the full toolkit within their own organisation, involving their staff, volunteers and trustees in the process.
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at people in senior leadership roles, and/ or those with digital responsibilities in their museum – this includes chief executives, directors, board members and senior leaders.
Two members from each participating museum should attend to ensure that they are able to enact and embed change more effectively within their organisation. Ideally the second member of staff or volunteer would be involved in delivery of the digital activities of the museum.
Participants must be working or volunteering in a non-NPO, Accredited museum in the West Midlands region.
Schedule
This online course will encourage active learning and plenty of discussion for a small group of up to 18 delegates from 9 museums across the Midlands and South West. You will attend three online workshops each lasting around two hours and scheduled across several weeks. There will be some short self-led workshop exercises in between sessions.
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, you will have:
- a full grasp of how to use the Digital Culture Compass
- a fuller understanding and overview of some of your organisation’s digital activities
- plans, guides and resources on using the Digital Culture Compass as a strategic exercise within your own organisation and teams
- practical next steps to implement within your organisation
- an area of focus to begin assessing and improving your digital activities
- signposting to free online resources to support you going forward
Course lead
Alec Ward is the Digital Skills Manager at Culture24. Alec’s career has focused on building capacity and confidence for smaller cultural organisations by providing digital skills and literacy support. He has extensive experience of developing training around practical digital skills development, from video editing to creating 3D digital models, and focuses that training through a wider organisational strategic context.
This course is provided as part of Culture24’s Arts Council England-funded Sector Support programme.
Support towards Museum Accreditation
Organisational Health: 2.1 An approved forward or business plan which covers the current and subsequent planning year
Two delegates 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.
Digital Access
These events will be auto captioned. If you would benefit from any other form of access support, please email the WMMD team as early as possible stating the support you require.
All participants will receive an email containing a Zoom link to the training prior to the events. 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.
Assessing your Digital Capacity
Tuesday 4 , Tuesday 11 and Tuesday 18 October, 2pm-4pm
Online
Assessing your Digital Capacity (session 2)
For museums to be able to take full advantage of everything digital can offer, they must first understand how and where digital sits within their organisation. The Digital Culture Compass is a powerful tool which can help a museum to evaluate how digital relates to their organisation. This course helps smaller museums understand how to use the toolkit before applying it to their own organisations.
In this three part workshop from Culture24, participants will be guided through using parts of the Digital Culture Compass to complete an assessment of some of their museum’s digital activities. They will leave with the confidence, tools and resources needed to complete the full toolkit within their own organisation, involving their staff, volunteers and trustees in the process.
Who should attend?
This course is aimed at people in senior leadership roles, and/ or those with digital responsibilities in their museum – this includes chief executives, directors, board members and senior leaders.
Two members from each participating museum should attend to ensure that they are able to enact and embed change more effectively within their organisation. Ideally the second member of staff or volunteer would be involved in delivery of the digital activities of the museum.
Participants must be working or volunteering in a non-NPO, Accredited museum in the West Midlands region.
Schedule
This online course will encourage active learning and plenty of discussion for a small group of up to 18 delegates from 9 museums across the Midlands and South West. You will attend three online workshops each lasting around two hours and scheduled across several weeks. There will be some short self-led workshop exercises in between sessions.
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, you will have:
- a full grasp of how to use the Digital Culture Compass
- a fuller understanding and overview of some of your organisation’s digital activities
- plans, guides and resources on using the Digital Culture Compass as a strategic exercise within your own organisation and teams
- practical next steps to implement within your organisation
- an area of focus to begin assessing and improving your digital activities
- signposting to free online resources to support you going forward
Course lead
Alec Ward is the Digital Skills Manager at Culture24. Alec’s career has focused on building capacity and confidence for smaller cultural organisations by providing digital skills and literacy support. He has extensive experience of developing training around practical digital skills development, from video editing to creating 3D digital models, and focuses that training through a wider organisational strategic context.
This course is provided as part of Culture24’s Arts Council England-funded Sector Support programme.
Support towards Museum Accreditation
Organisational Health: 2.1 An approved forward or business plan which covers the current and subsequent planning year
Two delegates 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.
Digital Access
These events will be auto captioned. If you would benefit from any other form of access support, please email the WMMD team as early as possible stating the support you require.
All participants will receive an email containing a Zoom link to the training prior to the events. 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.
Assessing your Digital Capacity
Tuesday 4 , Tuesday 11 and Tuesday 18 October, 2pm-4pm
Online
