This section features news, events and staff and Trustee vacancies from across the museum and heritage sector.

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Museum closures during the pandemic

Mapping Museums project lead Fiona Candlin finds that despite the predictions, permanent museum closures are tracking previous years. When museums first closed to visitors i…

Being Brent – Brent Museum and Archives awards grants to 12 organisations through the Heritage Wellbeing Fund

The Heritage Wellbeing Fund will support the delivery of 12 community projects that reach and involve a large cross-section of people in Brent and help improve local people’s health and wellbeing…

Trustee vacancy – Glencoe Folk Museum

Glencoe Folk Museum is seeking a Construction Project Advisor to help deliver their upcoming redevelopment, advising on the capital development strands of the project. This is a voluntary post expe…

Trustee vacancy – Ripon Museums Trust

Ripon Museums Trust in North Yorkshire is looking for a new trustee due to retirement. Our board provides the governance of the organisation, which is both a registered charity and a company limite…

Relationships – the corner stone of successful fundraising

Judy Niner from Development Partners highlights how a new fundraising approach paid off for Dorset Museum. A multi-million pound fundraising target is a tall order for any m…

Museum Profile – Dorset Museum

Dorset Museum, based in the county town of Dorchester, has just reopened its doors to the public after a £16.4 million redevelopment. The Museum, which holds a collection o…

Trustee vacancy – New Forest Heritage Trust

New Forest Heritage Trust in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, is recruiting two new trustees to join the board. Trustee required with building management and maintenance or project management ski…

Update on joint statement on Museums & Collections at risk

Arts Council England has updated their joint statement with 16 museum funders and sector bodies about heritage, museums and collections at risk, outlining our coordinated approach to helping organi…

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Ensuring your voice is heard

AIM Director Lisa Ollerhead outlines her initial priorities as we start on the road to recovery from the pandemic. Five and a bit weeks into being AIM’s Director feels lik…

Resilience planning for your museum

If there is one take away from the last 15 months, it is that the unforeseen, or perhaps the unthinkable, can happen say Hayes Parsons Insurance Brokers. What do we …

Trustee vacancy – HMS Unicorn
Trustee vacancy – HMS Unicorn
30/07/2021 in Uncategorised

The Unicorn Preservation Society, known as UPS, is a unique charity accountable for a unique and precious 200-year-old heritage asset: HMS Unicorn. UPS is located in Dundee, but we are inter…

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