Author: Sue Hughes
Request for Display Case for Engine Shed at Ingrow
The Engine Shed at Ingrow (formerly Ingrow Loco Museum) in Keighley, West Yorkshire are looking for a table top (or on a pedestal) glass display case suitable to house a small model railway for a permanent exhibition. The internal size would need to be a minimum of 1300 x 650 x 250mm. If you can […]
Helping Hands Cumbrian Volunteering Project
Helping Hands has been an Arts Council England funded county-wide volunteering project across Cumbria led by Cumbria Museums Consortium. Here Faye Morrissey, Manager & Curator of The Armitt, Ambleside reflects on its impact: Although I am disappointed to see it come to an end, I am extremely grateful for all the hard work and support […]
Heritage Volunteering Group
The Heritage Volunteering Group (HVG) are dedicated to deepening the impact of volunteering across the heritage sector by empowering organisations to harness the potential of volunteering to transform organisations, lives, and communities. As a membership organisation, they are a powerful advocate for volunteering, working to enhance volunteer management capacity within organisations, and support members’ professional […]
Heather Lane: Volunteering at the Museum of North Craven Life
Heather Lane is Honorary Curator at the Museum of North Craven Life and Chair of Trustees of the North Craven Building Preservation Trust. Here she explains the impact of volunteering on her and the organisation: ‘In September 2019, I answered an advert for a new Honorary Curator at the Museum of North Craven Life at […]
Success for Northern Museums at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024
We are very pleased to announce that the Roots and Branches programme has been awarded Sustainable Project of the Year at the Museums + Heritage Awards 2024. It won the award jointly with The Scottish Crannog Centre for their 1000 Fingerprints 1000 Voices project. Roots and Branches is a collaboration between The Carbon Literacy Project, Museum Development England, and Manchester Museum. It is […]
Request for Display Cases for Showtown Blackpool
Showtown Blackpool are looking for two display cases for use in an upcoming temporary exhibition. They would like one costume case and one table-top vitrine. They are open to discussing different dimensions, but the maximum height for a case would be 2000mm. The exhibition they are being used in begins install in mid-June and is […]
Request for Coffee Shop Tables and Chairs and Shop Display Units
Have you any spare coffee shop tables and chairs or shop display units stored away which you would be happy to recycle to Lady Waterford Hall, Ford, Berwick upon Tweed? Lady Waterford Hall is a Victorian building looking to start serving teas/coffee and cakes, etc. and would really like to obtain tables for 4 people […]
MEND funding success for North Museums
A total of 11 museums in the North region have been successful in receiving funding totalling over £8.5 million from the latest round of Arts Council England’s Museum Estate and Development Fund. Topping list is the Discovery Museum in Newcastle, which has received just over £3m for repair and refurbishment works. The fourth round of Mend […]
Wellbeing created by local heritage may be worth billions per year
Research from Historic England says the wellbeing created by day-to-day encounters with local heritage is worth £29 billion annually nationwide, according to a new Historic England report. The findings reveal a statistically significant, positive relationship between the density of local heritage assets and self-reported life satisfaction, after adjusting for various socio-economic, neighbourhood and regional effects. […]