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Review and Rationalisation of Collections Presentation

Presentation from Collections Trust training delivered by Sarah Brown.

 

 

Culture Change Guide: toolkit: developing diverse talent, workforce and leadership


The Culture Change Guide is a toolkit from Arts Council England that's been guided by best practice recruitment principals and explores how you can think about developing a diverse workforce and leadership. It contains case studies and best practice examples from the arts and culture sector and beyond, with guidance on how to recruit and support diverse talent in an organisation, and how to capture and use diversity data.

Guide on non-user consultation in museums

This guide was developed by Christina Lister as part of a project on non-user consultation for the South East Museum Development Programme. It focuses on methods that are accessible and achievable for small- and medium-sized museums and that can be scaled up, if desired.

Materials from HMMN meeting: Transformation (16 March 2017)

Materials from the meeting of the Hampshire Military Museums Network at Farnborough Air Sciences Trust on 16 March 2017

Materials from Customer Service for All - Disability Equality and the Visitor Journey

Materials from Customer Service for All - Disability Equality and the Visitor Journey held on the 24th February 2017

Successfully Recruiting Trustees to Your Board

Do you have vacancies on your Board but not sure how best to recruit new Trustees? Here is a wealth of information and links to help you find the right person to join you

Age of Creativity

Age of Creativity is a national platform for everyone who believes that creativity can support older people to enjoy better health, wellbeing, and quality of life. Find inspiration for your work, opportunities to develop your practice and resources to support your expertise. You can upload and share your own information with the network and you will also receive regular updates by email.

Working Towards an Audience Development Plan

Presentation from 'Working Towards an Audience Development Plan' workshop delivered by Nicky Boyd as part of the activities of the Hampshire Solent 'Audience Development' Peer Development Group.

Arts Council England Family and Community Focused Toolkit

Arts Council England Family and Community Focused Audience Development Toolkit. One of the resources collated and shared by the Hampshire Solent 'Audience Development' Peer Development Group.

Arts Council England Family Friendly Toolkit

Arts Council England Family Friendly Toolkit. One of the resources collated and shared by the Hampshire Solent 'Audience Development' Peer Development Group.

Belfast City Council Tourism, Culture and Arts Unit: Marketing and Audience Development Toolkit for Arts and Heritage Organisations

Belfast City Council Tourism, Culture and Arts Unit: Marketing and Audience Development Toolkit for Arts and Heritage Organisations. One of the resources collated and shared by the Hampshire Solent 'Audience Development' Peer Development Group.

Arts Derby Audience Development Toolkit

Arts Derby Audience Development Toolkit. Author: Louise Cogman. One of the resources collated and shared by the Hampshire Solent 'Audience Development' Peer Development Group.

2014 Arts Award Supporter Starter Kit

Trinity College has launched this revised Starter Kit for organisations wanting to become Arts Award Supporters.  There is also a new website aimed specifically at Arts Award Supporters.

Arts Award & Museums - a Case Study

In 2013/14 a group of museums in Cornwall delivered a 12 month programme designed to increase museums’ understanding of and engagement with Arts Award (supported by Arts Council Strategic Support Funds). This paper provides an outline of what they did.

Communication Strategies for the Digital Age Handouts

Presentations given by the speakers Agnes Guylas and Kal Sajad in the second of two social media sessions commissioned by the Kent & Medway Museum Development Programme.  Friday 17th January 2014.

Shifting Perspectives: Opening up museums and galleries to blind and partially sighted people

This helpful book identifies approaches to key aspects of service delivery which can help improve access to museums and galleries for blind and partially sighted people. It was produced as part of CultureLink, a joint programme by RNIB and the MLA to enable blind and partially sighted people to have greater access to museums and heritage sites and play a greater role in the Cultural Olympiad, in 2012.

Welcoming your blind and partially sighted customers

RNIB have written this factsheet especially for leisure organisations, including museums, to give a better understanding of how to make your services more accessible to blind and partially sighted customers.

Promoting your museum's access and facilities to people with disabilities

If you have worked to make your museum accessible for disabled visitors, then make sure you let people know. Where can you promote your museum to people with disabilities? Here are some websites that give information on arts and heritage venues with disabled access. Some charge for listings, others are free.

Disability Briefing

A Disability Briefing presentation given by Brighton & Hove Council in November 2013.

Social Media Essentials Handouts

Presentations given by the speakers Agnes Guylas and Kal Sajad in the first of two social media sessions commissioned by the Kent & Medway Museum Development Programme.  Friday 20th September 2013.

World Stories Final Report 2013

The Final Report of the World Stories South East project, run between November 2012-March 2013 and funded through ACE Strategy Support Fund.

Different Stories New Perspectives – Project Booklet, 2010

A community engagement in museums project funded by Renaissance South East.  Booklet edited by Helen Derbyshire & Sonia Rasbery, 2010.

Different Stories New Perspectives – Final Report, 2010

The Final Report, by Sonia Rasbery, 2010 - a community engagement in museums project funded by Renaissance South East.

Guidance on accesible toilets

Recommendations and links. Based on notes provided by Cassie Herschel-Shorland, Access and Museum Design Consultant.

SEWS mental health project - report of phase 1, 2008

Written by Jocelyn Goddard, Natalie Chambers, Neil Goddard, and Rebecca Linley for the Surrey, East & West Sussex Museum Development Service, 2008.

Materials from Hampshire Solent LAINet 'Museums for All' seminar 29 September 2014

Materials from Hampshire Solent LAINet 'Museums for All' seminar held at Basing House on 29 September 2014.

Museums Association diversify toolkit

Practical guidance and advice for employers in the museum sector on introducing positive-action schemes and creating a diverse workforce

Working with Diverse Audiences - Engage

Pack designed for museum educators exploring how to work with diverse audiences

MLA Self-Assessment Checklist: Cultural Diversity

Self-assessment tool to help museums, libraries and archives to develop an understanding of their current practice and to encourage positive developments in relation to cultural diversity.

VisitEngland Market Research

VisitEngland publishes useful research into tourism and leisure markets that museums can use both to inform their planning and to provide evidence for advocacy and funding applications. Available reports cover a wide range of topics including: future domestic leisure trends, the impact of the economic downturn on tourism behaviour; visitor satisfaction; and the potential of the 'staycation' phenomenon.

MLA Access for All Toolkit

Self-assessment toolkit designed to enable organisations to develop effective strategies for examining current performance, identify areas for improvement and develop more accessible and inclusive policies and practices.

HLF: Thinking about Audience Development

Guidance to help you think about audience development – that is how you can engage more people, and a wider range of people, with heritage.

HLF: Making your project accessible for disabled people

Guidance to help you think about how to improve every aspect of your heritage project so that disabled people, be they visitors, volunteers or staff, can engage as fully as non-disabled people. It provides good practice relating to capital works and activities.

'Sounding out your heritage' best practice toolkit

Best practice toolkit to help care professionals and heritage educators understand the positive impact of informal heritage learning for the over 60s, including those with dementia, and show them how they can develop programmes of learning activity.

Quick access checklists for small, volunteer-based museums

Concise access checklists for small, volunteer-based museums developed by Lyn Gash, Museum Development Manager, Suffolk County Council based on the MLA Access for All Self-Assessment Toolkit. These are simplified tools designed for museums just starting to improve their accessibility. Larger museums, or small ones that are further along their journey to improved access, should use the more comprehensive tools in the MLA toolkit.

Related resources

Related case studies