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
Dialect and Heritage Project – Oral History and Dialect Fieldworker volunteer, Avoncroft Museum
Would you like to learn new skills and contribute to important University-led dialect research?
Avoncroft Museum is one of five partner museums working with the University of Leeds on the Dialect and Heritage Project to explore and record the richness of dialect around England and how it may have changed over the last 70 years.
What the role will entail: Volunteer Oral History and Dialect Fieldworkers will carry out interviews and collect new in-depth oral history and dialect recordings through conducting individual interviews and/or facilitating group interviews.
Supervision: Volunteers will be supervised by the Dialect and Heritage Project Engagement Officer based at Avoncroft Museum.
Who will this role suit? Volunteers are not expected to have specialist skills or experience at the outset to fulfil these roles (though some may have) as full training and information will be provided. The Oral History and Dialect Fieldworker volunteering role would suit volunteers who:
- Are confident, friendly and have good verbal communication skills in English
- Enjoy meeting and talking to new people of all backgrounds
- Are reliable and can commit to collecting at least 4 interviews over the course of the project
- Are willing to develop new skills and commit to training for the role
- (desirable) Have a full driving licence and access to own transport preferred but not essential if alternative arrangements can be made
Skills, training and support: via specialist training programme (co-developed with the Oral History Society) and online support and e-learning materials
Role-specific training may include: project context; an introduction to dialect; how to conduct successful oral history interviews; ethics and best practice guidance; health and safety; copyright and permissions; good interviewing technique; and using recording technology and equipment.
Expenses will be paid.
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!
