Sales Volunteer, The Lace Guild Museum
The Lace Guild Museum is a small independent accredited Museum run entirely by volunteers, housed in a detached Edwardian building in the heart of the Stourbridge Glass Quarter.
It is a specialist museum with a large collection of lace and lace related artefacts. The Museum collects both antique and contemporary lace. The Lace Guild CIO, a membership organisation and registered Education Charity, was founded nearly 50 years ago to encourage the up take and further knowledge about this fascinating heritage craft.
Volunteers are needed across the range of their activities. Knowledge of lace and lacemaking is not essential,but an interest in textiles helps. They need volunteers in a range of our activities including meeting and greeting visitors to the building, helping other volunteers with the museum, library and archive, photographing the collection and archive, light gardening duties to keep the small garden neat and tidy as well as helping with the sales of donated second hand items and publications.
Sales volunteers will
- Assist the staff member responsible for sales of Guild merchandise and second hand sales, for example taking telephone, email or website orders, assembling and packing orders to be sent out, stock maintenance, liaising with members about orders
- Could be done remotely using Etsy, Facebook, or ‘Bobbin Lace Market’
- Comply with the Lace Guild CIO’s relevant Policies and Procedures
- Represent the professional standards of the charity
Social Media Volunteer, The Lace Guild Museum
The Lace Guild Museum is a small independent accredited Museum run entirely by volunteers, housed in a detached Edwardian building in the heart of the Stourbridge Glass Quarter.
It is a specialist museum with a large collection of lace and lace related artefacts. The Museum collects both antique and contemporary lace. The Lace Guild CIO, a membership organisation and registered Education Charity, was founded nearly 50 years ago to encourage the up take and further knowledge about this fascinating heritage craft.
Volunteers are needed across the range of their activities. Knowledge of lace and lacemaking is not essential,but an interest in textiles helps. They need volunteers in a range of our activities including meeting and greeting visitors to the building, helping other volunteers with the museum, library and archive, photographing the collection and archive, light gardening duties to keep the small garden neat and tidy as well as helping with the sales of donated second hand items and publications.
Social media volunteers will
- Assist the Guild Secretary/Web-master in the smooth running of the various social media accounts of the Guild
- Be able to update information on these accounts as necessary or requested
- Feedback anything useful or beneficial to the relevant person
- Police the accounts for any unsuitable material and report or remove as necessary
- Comply with the Lace Guild CIO’s relevant Policies and Procedures
- Represent the professional standards of the charity
Collections Volunteers, The Lace Guild Museum
The Lace Guild Museum is a small independent accredited Museum run entirely by volunteers, housed in a detached Edwardian building in the heart of the Stourbridge Glass Quarter.
It is a specialist museum with a large collection of lace and lace related artefacts. The Museum collects both antique and contemporary lace. The Lace Guild CIO, a membership organisation and registered Education Charity, was founded nearly 50 years ago to encourage the up take and further knowledge about this fascinating heritage craft.
Volunteers are needed across the range of their activities. Knowledge of lace and lacemaking is not essential, but an interest in textiles helps. They need volunteers in a range of our activities including meeting and greeting visitors to the building, helping other volunteers with the museum, library and archive, photographing the collection and archive, light gardening duties to keep the small garden neat and tidy as well as helping with the sales of donated second hand items and publications.
Collections volunteers will
- Learn about the collection and its history
- Help visitors and answer queries
- Work with other volunteers to sort, catalogue and accession items into the collections
- Keep the collections area clean and tidy
- Assist with displays
- Comply with the Lace Guild CIO’s relevant Policies and Procedures
- Represent the professional standards of the charity
Contact www.laceguild.org
Floristry Volunteer, Winterbourne House and Garden
Experience the joy of creating beautiful flower arrangements using the Winterbourne Garden as your inspiration.
What’s involved?
- You’ll be able to create small, beautiful flower displays to decorate the house and tearoom
- You’ll be able to identify suitable flowers and foliage for cutting from the garden to suit the museum’s vision
- You’ll have the opportunity to create new floral displays for special events
This role will suit you if you are any of the below…
- Someone who is experienced in floristry in either a personal or employed capacity
- Someone who has great attention to detail
- Available twice a week for a minimum of 2.5 hours
By getting involved you could…
- Make a positive impact on the visitor experience at Winterbourne by adding new things for them to see
- See your creations on display across the site
- Join an enthusiastic and varied team, and make new friends
Contact: Enquiries@winterbourne.org.uk
Adult Education Volunteer, Winterbourne House and Garden
Winterbourne House and Garden’s adult education offering is growing and the team are committed to making sure that they offer the very best experience to learners. Experience the joy of joining Winterbourne’s ever growing Volunteer Team by join the Learning Officer and assisting with all of the behind the scenes work involved with running our courses and workshops.
What’s involved?
- Assist with printing and collating documents for courses and workshops and assist with set up
- You’ll help the Learning Officer keep on top of filing and correspondence
- Have an oversite of registers and stewarding
This role will suit you if you are any of the below…
- Outgoing and friendly
- Computer literate, having good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially excel and word
- Someone with an eye for detail, who can make sense of paperwork and is happy to work on their own initiative, often on their own.
- Available once a week
By getting involved you could…
- Make a real difference to the administrative efficiency of the Learning team
- Help ensure courses and workshop programme runs smoothly
- Join an enthusiastic and varied team, and make some new friends
Contact: Enquiries@winterbourne.org.uk
Museum Volunteers, Claymills Victorian Pumping Station
Claymills Pumping Engine Trust operates a unique working steam museum – Claymills Victorian Pumping Station – and, as such, cares for a wide range of operational steam machinery and ancillary equipment from 1885 onwards used in the pumping station, and also an extensive archive including original documentation and other records, including photographs. Claymills Victorian Pumping Station is an Accredited Museum and aims to care for and conserve its collections to professional standards. Claymills is entirely volunteer-led and has no employees.
Claymills is always seeking volunteers to support the museum – everything from engineering to catering, from front-of-house to tour guides, from administration to gardening, from catering to cleaning. If you have a skill, Claymills can probably use it!
Anna Seward Sewing Group, Erasmus Darwin House
Anna Seward Sewing Group
You will be supporting the museum by helping to ensure that visitors are able to continue to try Georgian costumes by helping to make and repair the clothes in the museum for dressing up. You will also help with making costumes for volunteers, which are worn at various events throughout the year.
The friendly group tend to meet on the second Monday of each month at 1.30pm and all levels of ability are welcome.
Attributes:
• Interest in history
• Enjoy being part of a team
• Some sewing ability would be an advantage
Member of the Volunteer Curatorial Team, Leominster Museum
Member of the Volunteer Curatorial Team, Leominster Museum
PURPOSE OF VOLUNTARY ROLE
To assist, as part of the volunteer team, with the care of the collection of objects in Leominster Museum
MAIN ACTIVITIES/TASKS TO BE SHARED
- Responsibility (in line with applicable policies etc) for:
- the care, recording, display and storage of all items in the Museum’s collection
- bringing up to date any incomplete, out-of-date or non-compliant records
- decisions on acceptance of new material offered to the museum
- disposal of degraded or irrelevant items in the collection
- making recommendations to trustees about appropriate changes to policies and procedures
- Responding to outside enquiries, including carrying out any quick and simple research necessary to provide an answer.
- Reporting to trustee meetings
- Working with other members of the volunteer team on:
- a continuing programme of improvements to the display and interpretation of the Museum’s collection, and on temporary exhibitions
- the preparation of new temporary exhibitions
- the preparation of funding applications, reports etc
SKILLS/INTERESTS NEEDED
- Experience (voluntary or otherwise) in the museum sector would be useful
- Good computer skills, and an understanding of the importance of record keeping in museums
- A willingness to attend external training courses from time to time, with necessary expenses paid
- A willingness to work constructively with other team members on joint projects and planning
TIME COMMITMENT
This can be arranged at the volunteer’s convenience and to fit in with the other members of the team.
Volunteers, The Lace Guild Museum
Volunteers, The Lace Guild Museum
The Lace Guild Museum is a small independent accredited Museum run entirely by volunteers, housed in a detached Edwardian building in the heart of the Stourbridge Glass Quarter.
It is a specialist museum with a large collection of lace and lace related artefacts. The Museum collects both antique and contemporary lace. The Lace Guild CIO, a membership organisation and registered Education Charity, was founded nearly 50 years ago to encourage the up take and further knowledge about this fascinating heritage craft.
Volunteers are needed across the range of their activities. Knowledge of lace and lacemaking is not essential, but an interest in textiles helps. The Lace Guild Museum need volunteers across a range of activities including meeting and greeting visitors to the building, helping other volunteers with the museum, library and archive, photographing the collection and archive, light gardening duties to keep the small garden neat and tidy as well as helping with the sales of donated second hand items and publications.
Collections Volunteers; Museum of Cannock Chase
Role Purpose: To assist with the care and documentation of the museum collection
Reporting to: Collections Officer
Key Duties:
- Undertaking research into the objects in the Museum collection, as requested
- Responding to queries from internal and external stakeholders regarding objects and collections
- Updating digital and paper records
- Carrying out condition checks (with training)
- Checking environmental and pest monitoring equipment and updating records (with training)
- Facilitating access to/engagement with the collection
Skills and Experience required:
- Basic IT skills (Word, Excel)
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Interest in history and caring for historical objects
- Interest/experience in research
- Willing to learn to use the Museum’s collections database
- Flexible, proactive approach
Time Commitment: Variable, to be discussed with Collections Officer. Typically a weekly commitment of a half to full day would be desirable
Training and Support:
- The following training will be provided:
- Introductory chat about the role and the Museum
- General induction to the Museum
- Training in role-specific tasks (i.e. object handling, conservation cleaning, condition checks, monitoring environmental and pest control equipment)
- Training on the Museum’s record-keeping systems
Benefits of volunteering:
- Meet new people and learn new skills
- Gain experience in a museum environment
- Volunteer within a friendly team
- Enhance your knowledge of local history and the Museum collections
Recruitment Process: Application Form and informal chat, followed by an induction. References may be requested depending on role.
Contact them: Email museumofcannockchase@ihlmail.org, call 01543 877666 or collect a Volunteer Application Form from the Museum during open hours.
