Training and events

Event Planning 101

Interactive workshop, exploring how to plan your own museum events.

9 February 2022 · The Ropewalk

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Volunteer Management Development

This series of three, online webinars will help museums to develop knowledge and skills in volunteer recruitment, volunteer management, and volunteer strategy development.

This webinar series is being hosted by volunteering consultants and specialists Laura Hamilton and Carol Carbine, who both bring more than 40 years of volunteer management experience in the VCSE sector.

3 March 2022

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Race and museums in Britain and Yorkshire today

Understand how the history of migration stories in Britain, and Yorkshire and the Humber, have influenced the ethnic make-up of Britain and our region, and how working with diverse communities through ethnically equitable practice increases your museum’s relevance, and how to do this.

This session will support you if you are seeking to understand, or advocate for, why and how your museum could apply ethnically equitable practice to broaden its relevance.

16 March 2022

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National Lottery Heritage Fund: Helping You Apply – Grants for £3,000 – £10,000 (North)

This informal 2 hour session will explore:

how heritage can be used to transform places and change lives;
what a well-planned project looks like and;
how to write a strong funding application to The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

16 March 2022

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Elevenses – Wednesday 16 March

Addressing the legacies of colonialism and slavery 

How do we develop and use research which helps us understand collections and historic sites in honest and more inclusive ways? We’ll be talking to curators about links between museums, the former colonies of the British Empire, slavery and the Transatlantic slave trade. 

16 March 2022

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