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Farewell from SHARE – 27 March 2024

Read the last ever SHARE newsletter, which includes details of the new Museum Development South East Programme. In this edition we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Farewell from SHARE and hello to MDSE!

SERM training and events

  • Easy Steps towards Environmental Sustainability: Part 1 – Quick Tips
  • Carbon Impact of Travel and Logistics at Your Museum
  • Carbon Literacy for Museums
  • Funding Options for Museum Carbon Reduction Projects
  • Easy Steps towards Environmental Sustainability: Part 2 – Materials
  • Museum Gardens: Planting for Biodiversity and Resilience

External training and events

  • Registration for Heritage Open Days festival is OPEN!

Resources

  • Display equipment available

Opportunities

  • East of England Museums need you!
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
How to Queer Your Collections!
After curating their own exhibition on LGBTQ+ history at Ancient House and for a tour of Norfolk, Teenage History Club share what they have learnt so other museums can better represent queer history and queer stories in their collections.
Museum of Cambridge thanks its volunteer team

Volunteers Week feature:  From the Museum of Cambridge

Volunteer Blogs: The World of Front-of-HouseOur volunteer David- and the people he met along the way! It does not feel to me as though there has been a Friday morning recently. I guess that there must have been, but I carelessly let it pass unnoticed! Over the last four or five years I have become accustomed to my Friday mornings being focussed, interesting, enlightening and fulfilling while volunteering Front of House at the Museum. That’s the way I like to spend it.

But Social Distancing etc. came sweeping in and, all of a sudden, my Friday mornings were transformed – and not for the better! Since March 2020, days have come and gone with a lack of texture and context.

Whilst certainly far from dull, my Friday mornings are just so very different nowadays – no visitors to welcome for a start! The visitors are, for me, what makes Front of House volunteering so special. The Museum’s visitors are of course all different, but they are all consistent in possessing the same quality- that most splendid of qualities- curiosity.

Over the years, my murmured enquiry of “what brings you to Cambridge today?” has initiated such a range of enthralling responses. And many memorable conversations have ensued.

Just a few of those fascinating visitors spring instantly to mind…..

The delightful Brazilian professor (over here for a Conference on “Ocean litter”) who was a fascinating polymath, He could chat about anything and everything!

The French Art Student who was on his way back home to Reunion after visiting dozens of Scottish islands. We shared the same opinion that Callanish is one of the most achingly beautiful places in Britain (especially if you are blessed with a sunny day).

The couple from Greenwich who had some great stories about their frequent beachcombing strolls along the Thames foreshore. They told me all about gathering and transforming all kinds of flotsam and jetsam into a bizarre range of art forms for their house and garden.

The couple whose home was a narrow boat that wandered Britain’s canals (the husband specialising in mending clocks and all-things-mechanical on his travels).

The family from Alice Springs who were delighted to discover that their home-town was specifically named (OK, actually re-named) after the eighteenth-century Cambridge resident Alice Todd.

The couple who were touring Britain as part of a play that was on at the Arts Theatre. Gosh, they were the source of many cheeky and amusing tales!

The local chap whose great Uncle (Mr Fenner no less) had founded the Cambridge University Cricket Ground.

The retired couple from Mauritius who were travelling the globe, writing a book about the World’s wonderful Botanic Gardens.

The man from Christchurch, New Zealand, who was visiting anywhere and everywhere that had an association with Antarctica. He had (of course) been to Scott Polar Museum, British Antarctic Survey (and the Whipple to see the clocks made by John Harrison) and he wanted to make time to visit our Museum before setting off for Dundee to see RRS Discovery.

I particularly enjoy the sheer curiosity of the youngsters who visit the Museum. It is always fun to set them a task or two as they start their visit, although I am only too aware at how testing their own subsequent questions can be an hour later!

Oh, so many interesting and interested people! They are too numerous (and too humorous) to mention. It is always great to hear of their affection for our Museum and our City; they have made a great impact on me and I miss them.

I should have been keeping more detailed notes about the great conversations just in case I find myself faced with an irresistible urge to write my own book! And although I have been too lazy to even start that book yet, I might at least have found a working title. Perhaps Musings at the Museum might possibly do? I am left wondering, though, if I could do justice to all those wonderfully curious visitors!

I am keeping my fingers crossed that the “new normal” is about to arrive. Let’s hope it is as exciting as its predecessor.

This post was written by David M., a volunteer at the Museum of Cambridge.

Read the latest SERM Green Newsletter! March 2024

Read the latest SERM Green newsletter, this edition we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • SHARE Environmentally Responsible Museums and Museum Development South East
  • Heritage Engineering Network March Meeting 
  • Earth Day 2024
  • Environmental Plans
  • Green Your Museum JiscMail Group

Upcoming training

  • Easy Steps towards Environmental Sustainability: Part 1 – Quick Tips
  • Carbon Impact of Travel and Logistics at Your Museum
  • Carbon Literacy for Museums
  • Funding Options for Museum Carbon Reduction Projects
  • Easy Steps towards Environmental Sustainability: Part 2 – Materials
  • Museum Gardens: Planting for Biodiversity and Resilience
  • Further training opportunities
Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 05 April 2023

You can read our latest newsletter here, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Annual Museums Survey 2023 – new schedule
  • Final Silver Owls
  • MEND Fund Round 2 successes and Round 3 deadlines
  • AIM Brighter Day Grants successes
  • Accreditation success

SHARE training and events

  • Events coming up

External training and events

  • AHI Engaging People Awards
  • Online Collective Workshops – MDNW Roots & Branches: Seeds for Action Programme
  • TEG Connects
  • All Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums
  • Museum Tech 2023: A Digital Festival for Museums
  • Get ready for Google Analytics 4
  • Family Friendly Museum Award – nominations now open
  • The Power of Possibility! – AIM Conference 2023

Grant schemes and funding

  • National Lottery Heritage Fund: Dynamic Collections – deadline extended
  • Unlocking Collections – deadline extended

Resources

  • Festival Bridge Connect & Create
  • Considering Digital Cultural Value: museum experiences needed

Job opportunities

Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 1 February 2024

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Tell us your development needs – deadline approaching!
  • Members wanted – MDSE Oversight Board
  • Volunteers of 25 years?

Sector updates

  • Congratulations!
  • Call for partners: Where we are… 2024
  • ICOM Award for Sustainable Development Practice in Museums

SHARE training and events

  • What do you stand for?
  • Where to start with EDI and creating an EDI Action Plan for your Museum
  • Q&A session for Calculating your Museum’s Carbon Footprint
  • Decolonisation in practice
  • SHARE Conference 2024 – don’t leave it too late to book
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Essentials in grant application writing
  • Choosing a paid advertising platform: a Google, Meta & TikTok ads overview
  • Green Museums Summit
  • ACE Project Grants roadshows
  • Cultural Enterprises Conference & Trade Show
  • NatSCA Conference 2024 – save the date and call for papers

Grant schemes and funding

  • Let people bid to see your museum?
  • Seeds of Change £10,000 prize fund

Resources

  • Do you sell anything at your museum?
  • Calculating your Museum’s Carbon Footprint
  • Display Equipment Available

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 10 March 2023

You can read our latest newsletter here, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • SHARE/SEMD announcement & ACE guidelines
  • Rebuilding Young Audiences –
    SHARE Children and Young People Conference 2023
  • A fond farewell from Kathy Moore
  • Trustees
  • Business Rates Change
  • Heritage Fund new strategy
  • Congratulations

SHARE training and events

  • Change of date and location:
    Introduction to e-commerce session
  • Costume & Textile Network: Managing Costume Collections
  • Other events coming up

External training and events

  • National Lottery Open Week
  • Arts Council England Project Grants advice session
  • MuseumNext Green Museums Summit
  • ‘Done and Dusted’ – Kick the Dust: a Game Changer for Norfolk Museums Service
  • TEG Connects

Grant schemes and funding

  • SHARE Towards Net Zero Carbon Grants
  • ACE Project Grant: Unlocking Collections
  • National Lottery Heritage Fund: Dynamic Collections
  • Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund

Resources

  • Our Broken Planet survey
  • AIM admissions pricing research

Job opportunities

Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 12 October 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Museum Development South East 2024-26
  • AMS 2023 reports published
  • Accreditation successes
  • NLHF grant application deadlines changing
  • ‘Retain and Explain’ guidance published
  • Spotlight on SHARE networks

SHARE training and events

  • Emergency Planning & Salvage – last chance to book
  • Volunteer Co-ordinators Forum
  • Condition Checking and Display and Packing Materials
  • More help to raise funds
  • An Eco Lens on Collections
  • Working Meaningfully with Young People
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Visit East of England & Partners Visitor Economy Conference
  • How to make YouTube, TikTok or Instagram videos your audience will love

Grant schemes and funding

  • AIM New Stories New Audiences Grants
  • Historic England Everyday Heritage Grants
  • The Royal Society: Places of Science 
  • Art Fund – Going Places
  • Towards Net Carbon Zero grant
  • Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund

Resources

  • Creative Health Quality Framework
  • Happy birthday to the SHARE collections hazards poster!
  • The Sensational Museum – Strand A Collections Survey
  • Free museum entry for teachers

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • SERM tenders
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 13 July 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Museum Development South East
  • Fire, Salvage, Recovery
  • Free Energy Audits
  • SHARE Recovery Grants 2023
  • SHARE Environmentally Responsible Museum grants

SHARE training and events

  • Wider Reach 2023 – visitor research 101
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Heritage and Higher Education
  • Applications for the Fantastic for Families Awards 2023 are now open!
  • Collections Trust: Rethinking cataloguing discussion
  • Spark! programme for museum leaders

Grant schemes and funding

  • The Constable Trust

Resources

  • Touring Exhibition: Extinction
  • Collections Trust bitesize video: Policy, procedure or plan?
  • TEG Member Survey 2023
  • Last chance for museums to apply for discount on energy bills

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • PhD funded studentship: Reinterpreting Ipswich Museum’s Collections
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 14 February 2024

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • MDSE Deputy Programme Manager appointed 
  • Volunteers of 25 years?
  • Members wanted – MDSE Oversight Board
  • MEND Fund Round 4 announced 
  • ACE public investment in museums report 

Sector updates

  • Accreditation congratulations 
  • Museums Association board elections  
  • SERM updates 
  • How can ABTEM help you? 
  • Applications open for Sensational Museum project Funded Pilot Museums  

SHARE training and events

  • Where to start with EDI and creating an EDI Action Plan for your Museum
  • Advice Surgery for Calculating your Museum’s Carbon Footprint 
  • Engaging Audiences with Environmental Sustainability 
  • Carbon Impact of Travel and Logistics at Your Museum 
  • Online Coffee Morning: Ipswich Museum’s Redevelopment – Towards Greater Inclusivity 
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Skillset: Practicalities of Community Engagement  
  • Working in Partnership and Writing an Agreement
  • Engaging your first Young Trustees programme 
  • Roots and Branches: Seeds for Action Programme 
  • How GDPR/PECR affects email marketing 

Grant schemes and funding

  • King Charles III Charitable Fund Small Grants  
  • The Naturesave Trust: Sustainable Food 
  • Jerwood Foundation Grants
  • Henry Moore Foundation Grants   
  • ACE Cultural Development Fund Round 4 
  • AIM Pilgrim Trust: Collections Care and Conservation Grants 

Resources

  • Reflections on Re:Collections  
  • Kids in Museums resources

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 14 September 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • AIM State of the Sector survey
  • Trans-Inclusive Culture guidance published 
  • Emergency Planning and Salvage
  • Collections Management Advice Surgeries
  • Preventive Conservation Advice Surgeries

SHARE training and events

  • Free Money: how to get more out of Gift Aid 
  • Introduction to Digital Sustainability 
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Involving your Community  
  • Accountability for Collections briefings 
  • Doing Disposal 
  • Going Green: Carbon Reduction Challenges for
    Transport Museums & Collections 
  • It’s good to share – Collections Trust conference 2023
  • Informal online meeting on the legacies of colonialism  
  • Early-Stage Dementia Training for the Arts 
  • Making Change: CHWA National Conference 2023 
  • Reflect, Share, Inspire: Digital Skills for Heritage 
  • Strategic Interpretation for Engaging Exhibitions 
  • Kids in Museum’s Takeover Day 

Grant schemes and funding

  • AIM Pilgrim Trust Conservation Grants    
  • The Arts Society Grants 
  • Grants for exhibition-related conservation 
  • Arts Award Access Fund 
  • British Art Network bursaries 

Resources

  • Our Broken Planet: Community of Practice 
  • Gallery Climate Coalition: Sustainable Shipping Survey 

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 15 June 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Collections Care Audits
  • Want to know more about your audience and visitor experience?
  • Are you using Google Analytics?

SHARE training and events

  • Planning to Fundraise
  • SHARE Mystery Shopper 2023
  • Making Your Collections Care Green
  • ACE Project Grants surgeries
  • Creating Family Friendly Interactions
  • Frogmore Paper Mill: Fire, Salvage, Recovery
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Income and volunteering challenges in the charity sector in 2023
  • Future of Museums: Disposal
  • Finance for Fundraisers
  • GEM Summer Meet & Share
  • Collections Trust Conference 2023: It’s good to share

Grant schemes and funding

  • Support with fundraising
  • SHARE Environmentally Responsible Museums Community Grants  
  • AHF Heritage Development Trusts grants
  • QBE Foundation grant
  • The Wolfson Foundation: Funding for Places
  • ACE Capital Investment Programme
  • AIM Pilgrim Trust: Collections Care and Conservation Grants

Resources

  • Collections Trust video content
  • SHARE Accreditation resources
  • Free business software for charities

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation Mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 16 August 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • SHARE Recovery Grants 2023
  • Museum Energy Management – Preparing for Winter
  • SHARE Conference 2024: Save the date!
  • Changes to ACE National Lottery Project Grants
  • NLHF Delivery Plan 2023-26

SHARE training and events

  • Fundraising Network: how to make the most out of Gift Aid
  • Carbon Literacy for Museums
  • How to write an Audience Development plan for museums
  • Introduction to Digital Sustainability
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • GEM Conference 2023! Ambitious for Learning: Inclusive, Quality Programmes for All
  • Collections Trust Conference
  • TEG: Strategic Interpretation Planning for Engaging Exhibitions
  • Roots & Branches: Seeds for Action Programme

Grant schemes and funding

  • AIM Pilgrim Trust: Collections Care and Conservation Grants
  • AIM Training Grants
  • Johnathan Ruffer Curatorial Grants

Resources

  • Preventative Conservation Advice Surgeries
  • Pride in Our Past touring exhibition

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 18 April 2023

You can read our latest newsletter here, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Towards Net Zero Carbon grants
  • Environmental Sustainability Training Survey
  • April deadline for Silver Owls: celebrate your volunteers
  • Metal thefts in England – message from Arts Council England
  • Two vital sessions on tax!

SHARE training and events

  • Events coming up

External training and events

  • GEM East: Environmental Sustainability workshop
  • The Tourism View
  • Digital Culture Network: Introduction to Digital Accessibility
  • Digital Culture Network and Museums Development England: Get ready for Google Analytics 4
  • M&H Show
  • The Charity Finance Group – Cultural Sector conference
  • Collections Trust – Accreditation Mentors: Spectrum 5.1 and rethinking cataloguing
  • Heritage Open Days 2023 – Registrations open

Grant schemes and funding

  • Closing soon – The Textile Society, Museum, Archive and Conservation Award
  • Art Fund Reimagine Grants
  • Heritage Fund Climate Action Fund

Resources

  • Toolkit for Managing Digital Collections
  • Heritage Fund: Digitisation Project Planner

Job opportunities

Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 18 May 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • SHARE & SEMD Museum Development Consultation 2024-26
  • SHARE Environmentally Responsible Museums Community Grants  
  • Government Indemnity Scheme temperature update 
  • M&H Awards for regional museums 

SHARE training and events

  • Events coming up

External training and events

  • Kids in Museums: Family Friendly Awards 
  • Carbon Literacy Training for Industrial Heritage Museums

Grant schemes and funding

  • Art Fund Reimagine Grants – closing soon! 
  • AIM Connected Communities Grants 
  • National Archives 2023-24 grant funding programmes

Resources

  • New guidance on interpreting disability histories

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation Mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 19 January 2024

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Museum Development South East Programme Manager appointed
  • Measuring what you do matters
  • Let us know your skills development needs!
  • Tickets selling fast! SHARE Conference
  • Towards Net Zero Carbon grants

Sector updates

  • Cyber Security: Small Charity Guide
  • Share your Collections Overview
  • New Advice for Acquiring Works of Art

SHARE training and events

  • Calculating your Museum’s Carbon Footprint
  • Carbon Literacy for Museums
  • What do you stand for?
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • How regulation GDPR/PECR affects email marketing and why it is important
  • How to do a simple health check on your website
  • Celebrating Stories of Migration Study Day with Suffolk Archives

Grant schemes and funding

  • Collections Care and Conservation Grants
  • Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund

Resources

  • VisitEngland launches accessibility toolkit for tourism businesses

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 22 March 2023

You can read our latest newsletter here, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Welcome to Alex Gordon-Jones
  • Rebuilding Young Audiences – SHARE Children and Young People Conference 2023
  • Final Silver Owls
  • *Updated* SHARE Emergency Planning Template
  • UCM Regional Conservator

SHARE training and events

  • Costume & Textile Network: Managing Costume Collections
  • Back to Basics: An Introduction to Spectrum
  • Other events coming up

External training and events

  • MuseumNext Green Museums Summit
  • Trident Manor Cultural Protection Services: Secure Transportation of Art and Collections
  • ARA Archives and Museums Training
  • GEM events coming up
  • The Arts Green Book: Sustainable Buildings
  • NatSCA Conference 2023
  • SHCG Conference 2023: Activism and Professional Practice in the Changing World

Grant schemes and funding

  • SHARE Towards Net Zero Carbon Grants
  • Museums and Galleries Exhibitions Tax Relief extended

Resources

  • Census 2021 data – now with an additional interactive tool
  • The Heritage Fund – new digitisation resources

Job opportunities

Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 22 November 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Developing an Inclusive Team
  • SHARE’s Environmentally Responsible Museums Project

Sector updates

  • Introducing All In

SHARE training and events

  • Embedding Diversity in Museums
  • Wider Reach – visitor research 101
  • Planning and Delivering Carbon Reduction in Your Museum
  • How Are You Doing? Measuring Performance in Museums
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Museum Development North West Seeds for Action: Engaging People in Climate Conversations
  • Our Broken Planet: Bridging Industry and Environment, Navigating Complexity with Museum Audiences
  • Spark! For boards of museums which are volunteer-run (or mainly volunteer-run)

Grant schemes and funding

  • AIM Connected Communities
  • SHARE Towards Net Zero Carbon grants
  • Arts for Impact – Unlocking Match Funding
  • Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) Round 4
  • ACE extends Creative People and Places Programme

Resources

  • Charity Commission’s new social media guidance

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 23 February 2023

You can read our latest newsletter here, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • *NEW* Data Driven Museums
  • Welcome from Sarah Sinka, Essex MDO
  • Accreditation success
  • Museums admissions research

SHARE training and events

  • How to be a Safe Museum
  • Inspiring ways to interpret your collections
  • Introduction to e-commerce
  • MEND 3 – Introduction and 1:1 advice surgeries
  • Other events coming up

External training and events

  • Museums & Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief: ‘How to’ webinar
  • Digital Culture Network: Effective Social Media
  • ACE Project Grants advice session
  • TIkTok for Arts Fundraising
  • The Wild Escape
  • Icon Skills: Essentials of Collections Care for Non-Conservators

Grant schemes and funding

  • AIM/Pilgrim Trust Collections Care Grants

Resources

  • Hard copies of Spectrum 5.1 now available

Job opportunities

Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 25 October 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Annual Museums Survey county reports and more tools available
  • Congratulations to the Shuttleworth Trust!
  • Collections Trust documentation procedures manual guidance
  • Arts Council England freelance workforce survey
  • Understanding Creative Health survey
  • Generating more donations (SHARE events)
  • Towards Net Zero Carbon Grants
  • 2023 Collections Trust Award – applications now open 

SHARE training and events

  • Wider Reach 2023 – Visitor Research 101
  • An Eco Lens on Collections
  • Museums in a Nutshell
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • South East Museum Development: Museum Leader’s Coffee Chats – Advocating for Green Changes
  • Rural Museums Network: Food for thought
  • Introduction to the Protection of Cultural Venues (CPD Certified) programme

Grant schemes and funding

  • Arts Council England updates to National Lottery Project Grants
  • Beecroft Bequest
  • AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Grant Scheme
  • Hypercharged Foundation Grants

Resources

  • SHARE Resource highlight: Successful Digital Fundraising

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • SERM tender
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 26 July 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • The SHARE Newsletter will be back in three weeks!
  • Closing soon! Free Energy Audits
  • Museum Change Lives Awards
  • Accreditation update
  • Your Heritage Your Future funding success

SHARE training and events

  • Carbon Literacy for Museums
  • How to write an Audience Development plan for museums
  • Introduction to Digital Sustainability
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Reflect, Share, Inspire: Digital Skills for Heritage
  • AIM Conference 2024 speaker callout

Grant schemes and funding

  • SHARE Recovery Grants 2023
  • AIM Pilgrim Trust: Collections Care and Conservation Grants
  • AIM New Stories New Audiences Grants
  • UK Shared Prosperity Fund

Resources

  • Off the Shelf: MA launch new disposal toolkit
  • Getting started with TikTok
  • Julie’s Bicycle: Transforming Energy – Buildings Net Zero Energy
  • Heritage Manifesto 2023

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • PhD funded studentship: Reinterpreting Ipswich Museum’s Collections
  • Paid opportunities
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 27 September 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Art Fund / SHARE Recovery Grants success
  • RAAC guidance
  • Trustee Recruitment
  • More help to raise funds (SHARE events)

SHARE training and events

  • Introducing and advocating for digital preservation – practical first steps
  • Introduction to Digital Sustainability 
  • How to Write an Audience Development Plan
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Rural Museums Network 2023 Autumn Seminar Series
  • Preservation of Photographic Materials: Planning and Implementing New Storage for Photographs
  • Thinking Ahead – Modes Users Association AGM
  • Visit East of England & Partners Visitor Economy Conference
  • SEMFed Study Day Autumn 2023: Dealing with Colonial Legacies
  • Museums Association Conference 2023: The Power of Museums 

Grant schemes and funding

  • Postcode Places Trust – East of England
  • The Royal Countryside Fund
  • AIM New Stories New Audiences Grants
  • Historic England Everyday Heritage Grants
  • The Royal Society: Places of Science 
  • Art Fund – Going Places

Resources

  • New course – Evaluation for Arts, Culture and Heritage: Principles and Practice

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 28 June 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Visitor Insight East 2023 – FREE basic visitor survey for museums
  • No such thing as a free lunch?
  • Your SHARE Networks

SHARE training and events

  • Last chance to book! SHARE Mystery Shopper 2023
  • Making Your Collections Care Green
  • Creating Family Friendly Interactions
  • A case study: Fire, Salvage, Recovery
  • Carbon Literacy for Museums
  • Wider Reach 2023 – visitor research 101
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • How to make your website more sustainable
  • Early-Stage Dementia Awareness Training
  • Introduction to Connected Communities

Grant schemes and funding

  • AIM New Stories New Audiences grants

Resources

  • ICON – Creating Sustainable Environments
  • Presenting the Romans in Museums

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation Mentors
  • Paid opportunities
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 29 February 2024

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Museum Development South East updates – deadlines extended!
  • MEND 4 – introduction and 1-1 advice surgeries 
  • Skills Needs Survey 
  • Environmental Plans 

Sector updates

  • Round 3 AIM Brighter Days grants awarded 
  • Kids in Museums Family Friendly Museum Award 2024 nominations open

SHARE training and events

  • Steps to Recruiting a Diverse Team  
  • Engaging Audiences with Environmental Sustainability 
  • Inclusive Recruitment for Volunteers and Boards 
  • Carbon Impact of Travel and Logistics at Your Museum 
  • Ipswich Museum’s Redevelopment – Towards Greater Inclusivity 
  • Easy Steps Towards Environmental Sustainability – parts 1 and 2 
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • The Future is Now: Museum Youth Summit – Sector Sharing Event
  • Working with Children and Young People to Respond to the Climate and Ecological Emergency
  • AIM Spark! Leadership Programme 
  • How to do a simple health check on your website 
  • Essentials of Evaluation 

Grant schemes and funding

  • Thinking of applying for an Arts Council Project Grant?  
  • The Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund is now open for spring 2024 applications 

Resources

  • Picture Frames  
  • The impact of copyright law on charging for image use 
  • Green Your Museum JiscMail Group 

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 31 August 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Farewell from Hannah Bentley
  • …and welcome to Philip Claris
  • Collections Management Advice Surgeries
  • Recovery Grants – last chance to apply!

SHARE training and events

  • Heritage Engineering Network September Meeting 
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Limited marketing resources? Do less and achieve more!
  • Introduction to Subject Specialist Networks
  • Act Green Webinar 2023
  • GEM Conference 2023! Ambitious for Learning: Inclusive, Quality Programmes for All
  • Seeds for Action: Carbon Literacy Connect and Co-working Sessions
  • Museum Energy Management: Preparing for the Winter
  • AIM Webinars
  • MuseumNext: Digital Collections Summit
  • Seeds for Action: Building Connections – Networks and Partnerships Workshop
  • Heritage Volunteering Group Volunteer Leader of the Year

Grant schemes and funding

  • Know your Neighbourhood Grants
  • AIM New Stories New Audiences Grants
  • Going Places

Resources

  • Exclusive helplines for AIM members

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 31 May 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Volunteers Week
  • SHARE & SEMD Museum Development Consultation 2024-26
  • New museum café training video   
  • “Working together is Success” (Henry Ford) 
  • Support with fundraising 

SHARE training and events

  • Wider Reach 2023 – visitor research 101
  • ACE Project Grants surgeries
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Kids in Museums: Family Friendly Awards 
  • Carbon Literacy Training for Industrial Heritage Museums 
  • Future of Museums: Disposal 
  • Volunteers for Museum Learning Awards 
  • Digital Culture Network: Getting started with TikTok 
  • Norwich Castle and Forum – SEM Fed Study Day and 2023 AGM

Grant schemes and funding

  • SHARE Environmentally Responsible Museums Community Grants  
  • Heritage Fund Climate Action Fund 

Resources

  • Display cases on offer 

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation Mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE Newsletter! 4 May 2023

You can read our latest newsletter here, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Environmental Sustainability Training Survey
  • Collections Care Audit grant scheme
  • Wider Reach 2023 – Creating an Audience Development Action Plan
  • New for 2023: Preventive Conservation Surgeries
  • Annual Museums Survey 2023 launched
  • SHARE ‘Mystery Shopper’ scheme 2023
  • Ipswich Museum awarded Designation status

SHARE training and events

  • Events coming up

External training and events

  • Preservation of Photographic Materials Session: Photographic Processes and their Problems
  • Arts Green Book – Sustainable Buildings seminar
  • Collections Trust: Rethinking cataloguing discussion
  • Collections Trust: Choosing collections software
  • Carbon Literacy and Train the Trainer Programme

Grant schemes and funding

  • Art Fund Reimagine Grants 2023
  • Energy Bill Discount Scheme
  • Architectural Heritage Fund – Project Viability Grants

Resources

  • Flint Moulds

Job opportunities

  • Call for Accreditation Mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 5 January 2024

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Developing an Inclusive Team
  • Do you want to engage more young people?
  • SERM Staff and Volunteer Survey
  • The last ever SHARE Conference!

Sector updates

  • Accreditation success
  • The Natural Sciences Collections Association Annual Conference & AGM: 
    Save the date and call for papers

SHARE training and events

  • Embedding Diversity in Museums: Developing an Inclusive Team
  • Deaccessioning and Disposal
  • Calculating your Museum’s Carbon Footprint
  • How Are You Doing? Measuring Performance in Museums
  • Easy Steps Towards Environmental Sustainability
  • More events coming up in January
  • February events

External training and events

  • Let’s Get Real: using digital to add value
  • Trustee Leadership Programme – Arts, Culture and Heritage
  • Digital Culture Network Grow Your Digital Content Skills with Google
  • The Audience Agency Place Forum
  • AIM Hallmarks at Home – Museum Admissions Pricing

Grant schemes and funding

  • Introduction workshop for National Lottery Project Grants
  • Collections Care and Conservation Grants
  • Now open: VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme

Resources

  • Planning and Delivering for Carbon Reduction at Your Museum
  • Wanted: 1930s/1940s telephone
  • Free Engine 

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 7 December 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Last chance to apply! SERM Cutting Carbon Programme
  • New! Steps to creating an Audience Development Plan
  • Collections Management Advice Surgeries – last chance to apply!
  • New start date! Developing an Inclusive Team
  • Accreditation successes
  • Tell us what you want!

Sector updates

  • Sandford Award 2024
  • Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 now open
  • 2023 Collections Trust Award – applications now open

SHARE training and events

  • Planning and Delivering Carbon Reduction in Your Museum
  • Embedding Diversity in Museums
  • Final Collections Management training sessions
  • Calculating your Museum’s Carbon Footprint
  • How Are You Doing? Measuring Performance in Museums
  • Easy Steps Towards Environmental Sustainability
  • Carbon Literacy Training
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • AIM admissions pricing research – report and webinar
  • Bitesize Talk: Working with Artists for Environmental Storytelling

Grant schemes and funding

  • VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme
  • The Fore Trust
  • ACE Developing Your Creative Practice
  • Co-op Foundation Young Gamechangers Fund
  • Hubbub: The Nature Hubs Fund
  • AIM Pilgrim Trust: Collections Care and Conservation Grants

Resources

  • VisitEngland Accessible and Inclusive Toolkit for Business
  • Creating Self-Guided Resources for Families

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 9 November 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • SERM Cutting Carbon Programme
  • The last ever SHARE Christmas Quiz!
  • Congratulations to the Red House!

Sector updates

  • Financial relief for organisations impacted by Storm Babet floods
  • Government Indemnity Scheme Review
  • The Museums + Heritage awards 2023 are open

SHARE training and events

  • An Eco Lens on Collections
  • Working Meaningfully with Young People
  • Museums in a Nutshell
  • Planning and Delivering Carbon Reduction in Your Museum
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Religion, Collections & Heritage Group (SSN) Conference
  • Developing inclusive activities for families with Special Education Needs and Disabilities
  • Energy Efficiency and Old Buildings
  • Inventory and Documentation Planning for Accreditation Mentors Q&A

Grant schemes and funding

  • The Million Hours Fund, DCMS & National Lottery Community Fund
  • AIM Connected Communities
  • SHARE Towards Net Zero Carbon grants
  • Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants changes

Resources

  • Social Media changes

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • SERM tender
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
Read the SERM Green Your Museum Newsletter – December 2023

Read the latest SERM Green newsletter, this edition we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Carbon Literacy Action Day
  • Staff and Volunteer Survey

Funding and programmes

  • Towards Net Carbon Zero
  • Cutting Carbon Programme

Upcoming training

  • Planning and Delivering Carbon Reduction at your Musuem
  • Calculating your Museums Carbon Footprint
  • Easy Steps Towards Environmental Sustainability
  • Carbon Literacy
  • Engaging Audiences with Environmental Sustainability
  • Carbon Impact of Travel and Logistics at Your Museum
  • Funding options for Museum Carbon Reduction Projects
  • Seeds for Action Programme
  • Further training opportunities
Winter blackouts advice

Valentina Sabucco, Manager, Security and Protection Advice at ACE, has provided the following advice in response to possible concerns for winter blackouts:

  • Review risk assessments to capture possible consequences power blackouts may have on buildings, collections, and staff’s operations, and plan accordingly
  • Consider possible ways in which resilience can be increased, for example installing multiple power feeds to minimise the likelihood of a power disruption affecting a venue. Electricity Network Operator will be able to advise if installing an additional power feed is feasible and cost effective.
  • Ensure that fire and alarm systems have been serviced and where applicable battery backups are available.
  • If you have a back-up generator, test it and make sure you are aware of how long it will last in case of a power cut.
  • Contact service providers for your telephone, security system and fire protection system for information on how they will operate during and after an electrical outage.
  • Know what equipment can and cannot be turned off during an outage. Develop a plan for controlled shut-down if needed.
  • Based on the risk assessment conducted, considerations may be given to surrender some parts of a building or site, saving energy for the most important areas.
  • Think about how communications will be managed, both internally and externally, in case of a power blackout.
  • Ensure you have a list of emergency phone contacts at hand if needed.
  • If any changes are made to any of your operational procedures, ensure these are reflected in the risk management plan and staff is aware of these.

Being proactive and taking action now will help us be better prepared should we experience power blackouts later on.

Accreditation Resources
Title DescriptionTagsSelect Department Download
Accreditation Guidance, 2019

Supporting Guidance for Accreditation Standard

Accreditation Guidance

Accreditation Standard, 2018

Latest version of the Museum Accreditation Standard

Museum Accreditation Standard

Document Checklist for Accreditation

This simple checklist is designed to help you plan what documents you need for an Accreditation application.

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Evaluation Toolkit for Museums

SHARE’s updated Evaluation Toolkit is a comprehensive look at everything you ever wanted to know about evaluation in museums.

This is also available in a print-friendly version.

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Evaluation Toolkit for Museums (Print Friendly Version)

SHARE’s updated Evaluation Toolkit is a comprehensive look at everything you ever wanted to know about evaluation in museums.

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Example Mentor Agreement

This Word document provides an example of a Mentor Agreement between a museum and its Accreditation mentor, based on the original version by Arts Council England (ACE).  Further guidance for mentors can be found on the ACE website

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Forward Planning Top Tips

Your forward plan isn’t just for Accreditation- it should be a user-friendly, working document that enables you to identify and share your goals, and the measures to achieve them. The Accreditation Standard states that effective, resilient organisations plan both for long-term success and to make sure they can adapt and survive in a changing environment.

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Audiences Resources
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Access Checklist

Access Checklist based on MLA’s Access for All Self-Assessment Toolkit.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it

MLA

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Access For All Toolkit

Access For All Toolkit: Enabling inclusion for museums, libraries and archives (MLA, 2004)

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it

inclusion

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Co-creating Community Projects

Co-creating Community Projects: An Introductory Guide, by SHARE Museums East

community

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Creating New Displays: Norfolk Museums Service Access Standards for Display

Creating New Displays: Norfolk Museums Service Access Standards for Display

Creating New Displays

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Creating New Displays: Template for planning a new display or gallery

Creating New Displays: Template for planning a new display or gallery

Creating New Displays

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CYP Conference: COAM

You are worth it! How to charge for/get the funding you deserve to work with children and young people who deserve it.

child, children

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CYP Conference: Commissioning

Commissioning is the process by which Local Authorities and other Public Service providers decide how to best use their resources to improve outcomes for people

child, children

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Data Driven Museums

NEW for 2023! SHARE’s Data Driven Museums looks at how museums can make better use of data and features case studies as well as a comprehensive list of data sources.

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Dementia Friendly Museums

Do’s and Don’ts of Communication

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Evaluation Toolkit for Museums

SHARE’s updated Evaluation Toolkit is a comprehensive look at everything you ever wanted to know about evaluation in museums.

This is also available in a print-friendly version.

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Evaluation Toolkit for Museums (Print Friendly Version)

SHARE’s updated Evaluation Toolkit is a comprehensive look at everything you ever wanted to know about evaluation in museums.

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Heritage Engineering Network: Guide to Writing Panels and Labels

Heritage Engineering Network: Guide to Writing Panels and Labels

networks

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Hidden Histories: Discovering Disability in Norwich’s Museums Collections

A research project for Norfolk Museums Service by Jonathan Tooke.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it

disability

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Learning with Museum Objects

Wonderful Things: Learning With Museum Objects. 80 pages packed with inspiration and ideas including techniques, ideas and over 50 games for use with all ages. MLA/ Julian Vayne, Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon.

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Make it Snappy: Top Tips for Writing Well

Make it Snappy: Top Tips for Writing Well

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Marketing Programme Report: Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire

A report showcasing a year-long SHARE project providing marketing support to three museums in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire: John Bunyan Museum, the British Schools Museum and Much Hadham Forge Museum (Helen Mitchell, April 2014)

marketing

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Museums as Learning Spaces

Case studies, findings and recommendations from SHARE Museums East’s work with small museums in the Eastern region (Judith Carruthers).

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Quick Access Checklist for Volunteer based Museums

Quick Access Checklist for Volunteer based Museums, based on MLA’s Access for All Self-Assessment Toolkit.

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Red House Digital Marketing

Red House Digital Marketing

https://www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Red-House-Digital-Marketing.pdf

Safeguarding for Museums – DBS

Safeguarding for Museums: A Series of Short Guides. DBS Checks – Who Needs One? (Kathy Moore and Tom Bright, 2014)

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

https://www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Safeguarding-for-Museums-DBS.pdf

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SHARE Insight into Digitally Engaged Audiences (IDEA) 2021-22 Cohort report

This is a report about the findings from the IDEA programme (Insight from Digitally Engaged Audiences) run by SHARE Museums East in 2021-22. The aim of the programme was to help museums:
• understand who their digital audiences are
• understand what their digital audiences value and want
• identify any differences between their digital and in-person audiences
• and therefore feed into plans for future digital engagement and marketing

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Steps to creating an Audience Development Plan

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Tips for Writing Well

Tips for writing good museum text for labels, panels, marketing and advocacy documents.

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Business & Finance Resources
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Apollo Fundraising Guide to finding the right Contactless Payment Provider

Guide for moving to contactless donations within museums.

As we increasingly move towards being a cashless society, many organisations are thinking about what this means for them. The technology to take contactless payments has got cheaper in recent years and a growing number of products have become available for charities looking to take donations this way. In this free resource we share the questions you need to consider when trying to find the right provider for you. We will also look in more detail at some of the products and providers currently on the market in the UK.

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Apollo Fundraising Guide to finding the right Online donation Platform

When it comes to taking donations online, charities have an ever-increasing choice of platforms and service providers. While it can be tempting to make the decision solely on price there are a number of factors that organisations need to consider. In this free resource we set out some of the questions you should consider when deciding which online donation platform is right for you, and provide an overview of a range of platforms currently on the market in the UK.

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Apollo Fundraising Tips for Successful Digital Fundraising

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Apollo Fundraising: Fundraising from Trusts and Foundations,

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Apollo Fundraising: Overcoming Common Trust Issues,

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Apollo Fundraising: Overcoming Common Trust Issues Apollo Fundraising: Trusts and Foundations – Research and Cultivation,

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Apollo Fundraising: Overcoming Common Trust Issues Apollo Fundraising: Trusts and Foundations – Research and Cultivation =mc Guide to Fundraising from Trusts and Foundations Trusts and Foundations,

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Apollo Fundraising: Trusts and Foundations – Proposal Writing,

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Data Driven Museums

NEW for 2023! SHARE’s Data Driven Museums looks at how museums can make better use of data and features case studies as well as a comprehensive list of data sources.

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Grant Applications in Ten Easy Steps

A handy guide to writing grant applications by Stephanie Potts (Development Manager, Museums Norfolk), part of a presentation given at the Museums Norfolk meeting on 28th February at The Nelson Museum.

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How To Do Retail – Top Ten Tips

A guide to retail in museums. SHARE Museums East & Association for Cultural Enterprises.

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How to plan and deliver Carbon Reduction in your museum

Recorded training session on Decarbonisation for Museums

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxqBYwOWtUo

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Ingredients of Success: Profitable Cafés in Museums recording

Watch the recording of our session on Ingredients of Success: Profitable Cafés in Museums: https://youtu.be/dF1-1bvIglM 

Trainer: Paul Cottrell from Turpin Smale

Setting up a café or catering offer is increasingly important for museums wishing to offer a memorable visitor experience. Your aims may differ, but a café can be seen as one of the first steps towards financial sustainability or linked to your community engagement goals. This half day session will take you through the essential ingredients of a successful catering offer, led by Paul Cottrell from Turpin Smale. The session will also include a series of case studies from around the region illustrating how museums have successfully developed their catering offer.

Session outline

Paul will be looking at how you can simplify the process of running a successful café and ensure you concentrate on what is important. This includes managing your people effectively, good planning, controlling your costs and checking if your café is fit for purpose. A good café should reflect you and your team’s creativity and flair; whether you aim to make it a community hub or generate some income. On the day we will include live case studies from around the regions looking at how museums have been able to adopt novel and successful solutions to catering. This session will make a complex and sometimes challenging enterprise a little bit simpler.

The learning outcomes from the session:

  • Understand the need to agree your rationale for your cafe offer
  • Gain an understanding of people management within the catering context
  • Able to set measurable objectives when developing a catering offer
  • Understand how to control costs
  • Identify which types of service and business models may work for you (assisted service/table service/food to go/seating etc

About the trainer

Paul Cottrell, has extensive knowledge of hospitality catering and visitor attractions. Working for a range of organisations including Chatsworth House & Waddesdon Manor. As a consultant, Paul has worked on feasibility studies, budget planning, hands-on training and mentoring colleagues in the sector.

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Museum Retail: Top Tips for Small Shops

A Youtube video

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Product Development Case Study – Warner Textile Archive

A case study from the Warner Textile Archive (2014)

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Collections Resources
Title DescriptionTagsSelect Department Download
A Guide to Digitisation

A step-by-step guide to digitising collections – from planning your project, to purchasing equipment and choosing software.  Developed by Sarah Stephens, freelancer photographer and SHARE trainer. 2017

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Asbestos in Collections Handout

Derek Brain, Conservator, Birmingham Museums Trust, 2015

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Asbestos: Preliminary Checklist Handout

Derek Brain, Conservator, Birmingham Museums Trust, 2015

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Calibrating a dial hygrometer

A short film where a conservator demonstrates the calibration of a dial hygrometer. 2012

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Calibrating a thermohygrograph

A short film where a museum conservator demonstrates setting up and calibrating a thermohygrograph. 2012.

Click here to watch

Cleaning and Caring for Limestone Objects

A helpful guide to cleaning limestone objects, reproduced here with kind permission of Stefanie Müller, 2021.

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Collections Care and Conservation Policies and Plans – 14 July 2023 (session recording)
Collections Care Conference 2023: Preserving the Unpreservable

Playlist of pre-recorded presentations from the 2023 UCM/SHARE Collections Care Conference, hosted on the University of Cambridge Museums YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDhExi_byiwmgZJRDfacPKXqzAK3Nk6-L

Collections Rationalisation

What is Collections Rationalisation and why would you want to do it? Watch this short animation and begin the first steps to organising your collections.

Click here to watch animation

Collections Rationalisation Planning for Action

Includes templates for a rationalisation plan and a rationalisation policy. Report by Emmeline Leary, commissioned by SHARE Museums East, 2012.

 Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it. 

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Condition Checking & Display, and Packing Materials – 24 October 2023 (session recording)
Condition Reporting Crib Sheet

A step-by-step approach to collections condition reporting, by Deborah Walton, UCM Regional Conservation Officer for Cambs & Peterborough, 2022

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Condition Reporting: Bibliography

A list of useful resources from UCM Conservation Team training session, 2022

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Condition Reporting: example template 1

Example of a simple condition report template.
Kirstie French, Conservator, University of Cambridge Museums, 2022.

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Condition Reporting: example template 2

Another example of a simple condition report form.
Kirstie French, Conservator, University of Cambridge Museums, 2022.

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Condition Reporting: example template 3

An example of a condition report form for objects on loan.
By Kirstie French, Conservator, University of Cambridge Museums, 2022.

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Conservation Housekeeping: Equipment List

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Conservation Housekeeping: Housekeeping & Maintenance Checklist

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Conservation Housekeeping: Housekeeping & Maintenance Notes

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Conservation Housekeeping: Risk Assessment Example 1

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Conservation Housekeeping: Risk Assessment Example 2

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Conservation Housekeeping: Risk Assessment Guidance

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Copyright FAQs

A basic guide to Copyright, including typical questions asked by museums and collections.  By Naomi Korn, IP Consultant, 2017.

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Copyright: Bibliography

Information and Resources, 2016

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Copyright: Copyright Fact Sheet

Key points to remember. 2016.

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Copyright: Exceptions & Library Privilege

A Quick Guide to the UK’s Exceptions and Limitations to the Exclusive Rights, 2016.

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COSHH in the Context of Historic Chemical Collections

Larry Carr, Collections Hazards Officer, Science Museums Group, 2015

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Data Driven Museums

NEW for 2023! SHARE’s Data Driven Museums looks at how museums can make better use of data and features case studies as well as a comprehensive list of data sources.

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Emergency Planning – 7 September 2021 (session recording)
Emergency Planning Template

Updated version of Emergency Planning Toolkit, SHARE Museums East, 2023.  See also, Emergency Planning Guidance Notes.

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Emergency Planning Template – Word version

Updated version of the Emergency Planning Toolkit, SHARE Museums East, 2023.

Download link: https://www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SHARE-Emergency-Planning-Template.docx 

SHARE Emergency Planning Template

Emergency Planning Template Guidance Notes

Guidance notes to accompany the SHARE Museums East Emergency Planning Template, 2023.

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Environmental Monitoring – Introduction

Comprehensive guidelines and information. SHARE Museums East, 2011.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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Environmental Monitoring and Control – 7 September 2023 (session recording)
Glossary of Light Terms

A glossary of light terms developed by staff and students at University of Cambridge Museums, 2018.

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Hazardous Materials Mould – 3 October 2023 (session recording)
Hazards in Museums: A 7-Step Guide

Developed with Larry Carr, one of the UK’s authorities in the subject of health hazards found in object collections, this downloadable version of the SHARE Museums East Hazards poster takes you through 7 simple steps to successfully managing hazardous material in museum collections.

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Heritage Engineering Network: Managing Collections after lockdown

Useful guidance and resources for museums caring for collections after lockdown or prolonged closure.  Deborah Walton, University of Cambridge Museums Regional Conservation Officer for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, September 2021.

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How To Guide – Hazards

Practical guide produced by SHARE Museums East, 2012.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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How to Guide – Insuring Museums Collections

Practical guide produced by SHARE Museums East, 2012.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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How to Guide – Plan and Prioritise for Collections Care

Practical guide produced by SHARE Museums East, 2012.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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How to Guides – Assess and Manage Risk in Collections Care

Practical guide produced by SHARE Museums East, 2012.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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How To Guides – Packing Museum Objects

Practical guide produced by SHARE Museums East, 2012.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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IPM: Insects Found In Traps Which Are Not Pests

Poster, from our Integrated Pest Management course. Jane Thompson-Webb (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery), David Pinniger and Tony Irwin (Norfolk Museums Service), 2009.

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IPM: Pest and Damage Table

From our Integrated Pest Management course. Jane Thompson-Webb (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery), David Pinniger and Tony Irwin (Norfolk Museums Service), 2009.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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IPM: Pest Management – Practical Survey Checklist

From our Integrated Pest Management course. Jane Thompson-Webb (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery), David Pinniger and Tony Irwin (Norfolk Museums Service), 2009.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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IPM: Using insect traps and pheromones in Museums and Historic Houses

From our Integrated Pest Management course. Jane Thompson-Webb (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery), David Pinniger and Tony Irwin (Norfolk Museums Service), 2009.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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IPM: What Is Integrated Pest Management?

From our Integrated Pest Management course. Jane Thompson-Webb (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery), David Pinniger and Tony Irwin (Norfolk Museums Service), 2009.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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Labelling and Marking Kit

What’s in the box? Conservator Juliane Ovenden describes the contents of a museum labelling and marking kit in a short 5 minute film.

 

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Labelling and marking paper objects

A short film where a conservator demonstrates labelling and marking paper objects from a museum collection.

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Labelling and marking textiles

A short film where a museum conservator demonstrates the labelling and marking of textiles.

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Labelling: Labelling & Marking Museum Objects Booklet

Labelling & Marking Booklet from Collections Trust

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Labelling: Marking and Labelling Methods and Positions

Series of guides for labelling different types of object – all from National Museums Liverpool

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Labelling: Sewn-on Label

Series of guides for labelling different types of object – all from National Museums Liverpool

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Labelling: Sticking a Label on the Object

Series of guides for labelling different types of object – all from National Museums Liverpool

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Labelling: Tie-on Label

Series of guides for labelling different types of object – all from National Museums Liverpool

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Labelling: Writing on the Object

Series of guides for labelling different types of object – all from National Museums Liverpool

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Marking museum objects using the starch paste method

A short film where a conservator demonstrates the marking of museum objects using the starch paste method.

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Mounting: Design A Label: Guidelines on Labelling for Museums

Labelling guidelines from an initiative by The Campaign for Museums, 1999.

Although this resource is now quite old, it is still a useful reference so we have retained it.

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Mounting: Fabric covered display boards: How To

Fabric Covering Boards

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Mounting: Pinning on Small Objects: How To

Pinning on Small Objects

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Mounting: Top Tips on Design for Labels and Display Panels

Designing labels and display panels, top tips

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Moving Natural Sciences Collections

Assessing, packing and moving Natural Science collections to new stores: Case study -Planning the relocation of the Natural Science collections stored at the Museum Resource Centre in Ryegate Road, Colchester. Nigel Larkin, 2013.

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Natural Science Collections and the Law

A link to the NatSCA (Natural Sciences Collections Association) website and their guidance to legalities of holding natural science collections.

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Object Handling Guidelines

Collected resources from our Object Handling & Packing course. Sarah Norcross Robinson (Norfolk Museums Service) and Deborah Walton (UCM).

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Object Packing Guidelines

Collected resources from our Object Handling & Packing course. Sarah Norcross Robinson (Norfolk Museums Service) and Deborah Walton (UCM).

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Oral History – How To Ask Questions

A series of helpful guides on Oral History.

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Oral History – Sample Interview Log

A series of helpful guides on Oral History.

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Oral History- Interview Checklist

A series of helpful guides on Oral History.

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Oral History: Choosing Interview Topics

A series of helpful guides on Oral History.

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Oral History: Listening Exercises

A series of helpful guides on Oral History.

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Oral History: Sample Interview Guide

A series of helpful guides on Oral History.

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Oral History: Sample Recording Permission Form

A series of helpful guides on Oral History.

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Oral History: Tips For Practising

A series of helpful guides on Oral History.

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Paper and Parchment – 16 November 2023 (session recording)
Principles for Lending and Borrowing

The resource can be used to help assess your current facilities in terms of security and environmental monitoring. Published by National Museum Directors’ Council and Touring Exhibition Group, 2021.

loans, national museums

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Winter power cuts, 2022-23

This resource was created as a result of a SHARE Museums East Coffee Morning led by Deborah Walton, UCM Regional Conservation Officer (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough). With thanks also to coffee morning participants for their input and ideas.

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Environmental Responsibility Resources
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How to plan and deliver Carbon Reduction in your museum

Recorded training session on Decarbonisation for Museums

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How to plan and deliver Carbon Reduction in your museum

Trainers: John Moore, Net Zero Carbon consultant, John Taylor, Greater South East Energy Hub

If you are wondering how to get started with or increase your understanding around the ACE Investment Principle Environmental Responsibility, this should help.

The training covers:

• First priorities in reducing environmental impact
• What to measure and track and how to obtain this information
• Structure and content of a Carbon Reduction Plan
• Typical actions you can take and what impact they will have
• General support and specific grant funding available to help with the technical elements
• Case studies of what others have been able to achieve

 

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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Resources
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Data Driven Museums

NEW for 2023! SHARE’s Data Driven Museums looks at how museums can make better use of data and features case studies as well as a comprehensive list of data sources.

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Equity and Inclusion – Introductory Resources – December 2021

Equity and Inclusion for Museums: introductory resources
Diversity and Inclusion are central to a fair society and to the success of institutions
in being relevant to communities. We are all at different stages of engagement with equitable and
inclusive practice. With that in mind this is a set of introductory
resources in different formats and media, outlining key concepts, inclusive language
and example.

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Governance & Workforce Resources
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CIO. Should Your Museum Become incorporated? An Introduction.

Do you have questions about your museum’s governance structure and CIO status?

This 9 page document will help you with the following:

  • What does Incorporation mean?
  • How you might improve the legal protection for your Trustees?
  • How might your governance relate to Arts Council Accreditation?
  • Next?Other resources to consult

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Covid-19 inside premises risk assessment template

Covid-19 inside premises risk assessment template, kindly created by Ian Reed of the SHARE Heritage Engineering Network.

IMPORTANT – review and adapt this template to your organisation’s own circumstances before using.

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Covid-19 sample museum reopening task list

Covid-19 sample museum reopening priority task list, kindly provided by the Museum of Power, Essex

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Covid-19 site works risk assessment template

Covid-19 site works risk assessment template, kindly created by Ian Reed of the SHARE Heritage Engineering Network.

IMPORTANT – review and adapt this template to your organisation’s own circumstances before using.

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Data Driven Museums

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Equity and Inclusion – Introductory Resources – December 2021

Equity and Inclusion for Museums: introductory resources
Diversity and Inclusion are central to a fair society and to the success of institutions
in being relevant to communities. We are all at different stages of engagement with equitable and
inclusive practice. With that in mind this is a set of introductory
resources in different formats and media, outlining key concepts, inclusive language
and example.

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Evaluation Toolkit

Toolkit for museums, including case studies and planning materials.

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Exploring Trust Options

Exploring Trust Options: A practical guide to the feasibility stage (Renaissance Yorkshire)

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Focus Groups in a Museum Setting

A guide to using focus groups in a museum setting.

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Forward Planning – Top Tips

Top Tips for Forward Planning.

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Governance Health Check

The following questions were developed at the start of a project where a cohort of museums worked on board development, with the aim of making their boards more ready to engage with the private sector.

Governance,

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Growing through tough times – a 10 minute video

Summary video of some development work with Eastern Region museums in Spring 2021.  SHARE commissioned Rachel Mackay (therecoverroomblog.com) to support 4 museums to help them to grow through the tough times of Covid restrictions. This 10 minute video sums up her top ten tips – which actually apply at any time, not just in Covid times.

 

Museum Managers: Museum Managers Top Tips

This guide is designed to support managers starting work at oragnaisations that don’t have any (or many) paid staff but can be useful to anyone working autonomously in museums.

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Retail KPI spreadsheets

Retail KPI spreasheets to download and use. From the SHARE Museums East Retail Forum.

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Trustee Recruitment – Finding the right people for your organisation

Thoughts on Trustee Recruitment: Finding the right people for your organisation.

Notes from Frank Hargrave (Director of Colchester + Ipswich Museums) on recruiting for Colchester Museums Development Foundation

(from a SHARE Museums East discussion session, December 2020)

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Volunteer Agreement – Swaffham Museum

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Application Form – John Bunyan Museum

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Application Form – St Edmundsbury Borough Council

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Application Unsuccessful Letter – St Edmundsbury Borough Council

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Confidentiality Agreement – St Edmundsbury Borough Council

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Information – St Edmundsbury Borough Council

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Policy – St Edmundsbury Borough Council

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Recruitment Form Example – St Edmundsbury Borough Council

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Reference Request Letter – St Edmundsbury Borough Council

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Role Profile: Collections – John Bunyan Museum

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Role Profile: Education – John Bunyan Museum

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Role Profile: Event Assistant – National Trust

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteer Role Profile: Museum Steward – John Bunyan Museum

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Volunteering Leaflet – Cambridge Museum of Technology

A series of example documents relating to volunteering in museums, including recruitment forms, letters and role profiles, created by museums in the Eastern region.

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Working with freelancers

A guide to help museums recruit, brief and work with freelancers. To view please click here.

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Research & Data Resources
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Annual East of England Benchmarking Data 2011-12

The data collected through the Annual East of England Museum Benchmarking exercise 2011-12.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Data 2012-13

The data collected through the Annual East of England Museum Benchmarking exercise 2012-13.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Data 2013-14

The data collected through the Annual East of England Museum Benchmarking exercise 2013-14.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Data 2015-16

The data collected through the Annual East of England Museum Benchmarking exercise 2015-16.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Data 2016-17

The data collected through the Annual East of England Museum Benchmarking exercise 2016-17.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Data 2017-18

The data collected through the Annual East of England Museum Benchmarking exercise 2017-18. Version 2, updated to correct economic impact of visitors values.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Data 2018-19

The data collected through the Annual East of England Museum Benchmarking exercise 2018-19. Version 2, corrects a minor error.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2009-10

The 2009-10 Annual East of England Benchmarking report.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2010-11

The 2010-11 Annual East of England Benchmarking report.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2011-12

The data collected through the Annual East of England Museum Benchmarking exercise 2011-12.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2011-12 – Summary

A summary of the 2011-12 Annual East of England Benchmarking report.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2012-13

The 2012-13 Annual East of England Benchmarking report.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2013-14

The 2013-14 Annual East of England Benchmarking report.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2015-16

The 2015-16 Annual East of England Benchmarking report.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2016-17

The 2016-17 Annual East of England Benchmarking report.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2017-18

The 2017-18 Annual East of England Benchmarking report.

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Annual East of England Benchmarking Report 2018-19

The 2018-19 East of England Benchmarking summary report.

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Annual Museums Survey East of England 2019-20

The 2019-20 East of England Annual Museums Survey report. (The survey was previously known as ‘Benchmarking’). You can view the dynamic infographics report here: infogram.com/east-of-england-1hd12yxjm8zmw6k?live

Or download the PDF by clicking on the image in the right-hand box (we recommend the infographics report as it gives more options)

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Annual Museums Survey East of England 2019-20 data

The East of England data collected through the Annual Museums Survey 2019-20.

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Annual Museums Survey East of England 2020-21

The 2020-21 East of England Annual Museums Survey report. You can view the dynamic infographics report here: infogram.com/ams-2021-east-of-england-1h7z2l8k1090x6o?live

For the full question set, definitions and related privacy and data agreements, please refer to southwestmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/consultancy/annual-museum-survey-2021/

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Annual Museums Survey East of England 2021-22

The 2021-22 East of England Annual Museums Survey report. You can view the dynamic infographics report here: infogram.com/1pzm59yvjnwm15i25eevn3ldjmi1dpqnxn7

There also six locality reports: short, interactive reports providing a snapshot of each county’s museums and their core operational data of context, audiences, finances and workforce.

For the full question set, definitions and related privacy and data agreements, please refer to southwestmuseums.org.uk/what-we-do/consultancy/annual-museum-survey-2021/

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Annual Museums Survey East of England 2022-23

The 2022-23 East of England Annual Museums Survey report. You can view the dynamic infographics report here: infogram.com/1pxxj1zpdr3z1vcqmmkezxrgz9in0wn26jg?live

There also six locality reports: short, interactive reports providing a snapshot of each county’s museums and their core operational data of context, audiences, finances and workforce (due to the small number of museums in Bedfordshire, this county is combined with Hertfordshire).

 

The AMS Benchmarking Toolis a very useful tool for comparing museums and understanding their context.  It is designed to enable comparisons between museum organisations across the country depending on whether they are a single- or multi-site; their visitor size band; governance type; as well as other factors.
The Annual Museums Survey data and privacy statements as well as the 2023 survey questions and supporting guidance are available from: Annual Museum Survey 2023 – Participate – South West Museum Development (southwestmuseums.org.uk).
Benchmarking – Making Your Data Count

A guide to the use of benchmarking in advocacy. Dr Harriet Foster.

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Benchmarking and Funders

Information on how to use Benchmarking data effectively for funders.

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Benchmarking and Politicians

This resource supports you use your benchmarking data effectively to develop relationships with your local politicians.

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Benchmarking and the Media

Information on how to use Benchmarking data when providing information to the media.

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Benchmarking Data and Its Use

Examples of calculations that can be performed on benchmarking data. Dr Harriet Foster.

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Data Driven Museums

NEW for 2023! SHARE’s Data Driven Museums looks at how museums can make better use of data and features case studies as well as a comprehensive list of data sources.

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Evaluation Toolkit for Museums

SHARE’s updated Evaluation Toolkit is a comprehensive look at everything you ever wanted to know about evaluation in museums.

This is also available in a print-friendly version.

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Evaluation Toolkit for Museums (Print Friendly Version)

SHARE’s updated Evaluation Toolkit is a comprehensive look at everything you ever wanted to know about evaluation in museums.

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SHARE Insight into Digitally Engaged Audiences (IDEA) 2021-22 Cohort report

This is a report about the findings from the IDEA programme (Insight from Digitally Engaged Audiences) run by SHARE Museums East in 2021-22. The aim of the programme was to help museums:
• understand who their digital audiences are
• understand what their digital audiences value and want
• identify any differences between their digital and in-person audiences
• and therefore feed into plans for future digital engagement and marketing

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SHARE Case Studies
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Collections Review and Rationalisation recipients 2015-16

Short case studies from grant recipients: Gainsborough’s House, Flag Fen Archaeology Park, Diss Museum, Swaffham Museum, Royston Museum, Scouts Heritage Collection and West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village.

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Collections Review and Rationalisation recipients 2016-17

Short case studies from grant recipients: Brightlingsea Museum, Cambridge Museum of Technology, Peterborough Museum and the Stained Glass Museum.

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Collections Review and Rationalisation recipients 2019-2020

Short case studies from grant recipients: Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Museum of Cambridge, Oxburgh Hall and Dunwich Museum.

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Collections Review and Rationalisation recipients 2021-22

Short case studies from grant recipients: The Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey, Museum of Cambridge and Epping Forest District Museum.

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SHARED Enterprise Resources
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=mc Guide to Corporate Engagement

We can think of this as the corporate engagement spectrum. At one end is ‘hard’ sponsorship where the issue is simply how much value the initiative or programme will add to corporate profitability- directly or indirectly. At the other end is corporate philanthropy where a company – or an individual in charge of a company – give resources away with no hope of return.

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=mc Guide to Fundraising from Trusts and Foundations

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A guide to marketing and promoting museums’ venue hire

A pdf guide

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AIM Success Guide: Successfully managing privacy and data regulations in small museums

Successfully managing privacy and data regulations in small museums, a guide by the Association of Independent Museums.

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An Apollo Fundraising Guide to confidently meeting with potential supporters

Behavioural economics says we are sometimes rational, but most of the time our rationality is limited by our ability to work things out, the large amount of information available, the limited relevant knowledge we have, and our own lack of time and energy.

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Apollo Fundraising Individual Giving – Legacies

Workshop 2

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Apollo Fundraising: Are your Friends holding you back?

David Burgess, Apollo Fundraising

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Apollo Fundraising: Fundraising from Trusts and Foundations,

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Apollo Fundraising: Individual Giving – Major Gifts

Shared Enterprise and Apollo Fundraising Individual Giving and Legacies
Workshop 3 – Major Gifts

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Apollo Fundraising: Individual Giving – Relationship Fundraising

Shared Enterprise and Apollo Fundraising
Individual Giving and Legacies

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Relationship Fundraising

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Apollo Fundraising: Overcoming Common Trust Issues,

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Apollo Fundraising: Overcoming Common Trust Issues Apollo Fundraising: Trusts and Foundations – Research and Cultivation,

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Apollo Fundraising: Overcoming Common Trust Issues Apollo Fundraising: Trusts and Foundations – Research and Cultivation =mc Guide to Fundraising from Trusts and Foundations Trusts and Foundations,

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Apollo Fundraising: Trusts and Foundations – Proposal Writing,

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Art Fund Art Happens How It Works

A pdf guide

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Board Skills Audit Template

This is a self-assessment audit, so please rate your own skills and experience in each of the following sections.

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Building Effective Relationships and Partnerships with the Business Community

A resource to support museums develop relationships and partnerships with businesses

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Case for Support Workshop Slides

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Crowd Funding: The Latest Fashion in Fundraising?
Getting money from a crowd of people – thermometer outside the church has now become a digital platform, capable of integration with social media.

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Cultivation Strategy for Museum Redevelopment Programme
In order to ask people for money for your campaign (the redevelopment of the museum) you need to build a relationship with them. Some of your trustees will have direct or indirect contacts with local, wealthy people, through business, through their other networks (WI, golf club,Rotary, Round Table)
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Data Savvy Fundraising: what you need to know about the GDPR

A blog about GDPR

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Developing a fundraising strategy – action planning template

Action planning template

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Developing a fundraising strategy – Introductory guidance

Drawing on the workshops, this guidance gives some basic ideas and approaches on how to develop a fundraising strategy. Although aimed at smaller museums, the guidance might be of interest to larger organisations with multiple functions and staff.

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Developing Your Friends Group

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Example Secretary Role Description

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Example Trustee Role Description

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Fundraising Committee Terms of Reference

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Fundraising Matrix

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Fundraising Strategy Template

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Giving to Heritage: Developing a legacy strategy

A Youtube video

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Giving to Heritage: Effective Leadership

A Youtube video

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Giving to Heritage: Fundraising in the community

Link to Youtube video

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Giving to Heritage: Fundraising Planning & Developing a Mixed Fundraising model

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Giving to Heritage: making the most of digital

A Youtube video

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Giving to Heritage: Partnering with bigger institutions

Link to Youtube video

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Giving to Heritage: successful event fundraising

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Giving to Heritage: the Case for Support at St Nicholas Chapel

Giving to Heritage: the Case for Support at St Nicholas Chapel

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Giving to Heritage: Trusts, Foundations and High Net Worth individuals

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Governance Health Check

The following questions were developed at the start of a project where a cohort of museums worked on board development, with the aim of making their boards more ready to engage with the private sector.

Governance,

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Income Generation and Fundraising for Museums

Strategy Case Studies: Museum of East Anglian Life – p.9, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery – p.19

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Income Generation and Fundraising for Museums

Working with Business Case Study: Gainsborouh’s House – p.21

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Income Generation and Fundraising for Museums

Legacies Case Study: De Havilland Aircraft Museum – p.15

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Income Generation and Fundraising for Museums

Commercial Operations Case Studies: Epping Forest District Museum – p.25, John Bunyan Museum – p.23

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Income Generation and Fundraising for Museums

Individual Giving Case Studies: Essex Record Office – p.13, Fry Art Gallery – p.11

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Income Generation and Fundraising for Museums

Online / Digital Case Study: Cambridge Museum of Technology – p.17

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Increasing Individual Giving 1: Introduction to Philanthropy
Introduction to Philanthropy,  Entrepreneurs as Philanthropists,  Current government position, Cultural traditions and trends, Motivation and disincentives, Your organisation’s constitution

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Increasing Individual Giving 2: Golden Rules and Different Methods
Individual giving is very important and makes up 77% of charitable giving in the UK, compared to 18% from the top 400 Trusts and Foundations and just 5% from corporates.

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Increasing Individual Giving 3

Writing a Fundraising Plan

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Increasing Individual Giving 4: Legacies and Planned Giving

How do we dispose of wealth after death? Many people in Britain don’t make a will, so clearly it’s not something we find easy. A will is a way of making a lasting statement about your core values.

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Increasing Individual Giving 5: online giving

NB SHARED Enterprise does not endorse or recommend any particular online giving service.
This is not a comprehensive or exhaustive list of online giving providers. Before choosing to use any online giving service, careful research should be undertaken to inform your decision.

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Museum of East Anglian Life: Whole Organisation Approach to Fundraising

Whole Organisation Approach to Fundraising

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Museum Retail: Top Tips for Small Shops

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Norfolk Museums Service Weddings

Weddings at Norwich Museums

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P&L / Stock / Sales Record spreadsheet

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Preparing to meet your prospects
An Apollo Fundraising Guide to confidently meeting with potential supporters

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Retail KPI Spreadsheets

Excel Spreadsheet

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Strategy Handout by =mc

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UK Fundraising: 10 ways to increase donations through your website

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Writing HLF Project Bids

Introductory Guidance

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