Training and events

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.

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.

Collections Documentation : Inventory
A bitesize online session, exploring the management and documentation involved in the acquisition of objects, using Spectrum 5.0 procedures as a framework.
How do you manage objects coming into your organisation? Do you have problems with unsolicited donations and what do you do with the stuff you don’t want? How can a clear collections development policy help your organisation? What should you consider in acquisition-related decision-making?

East Riding & Northern Lincolnshire Museum Forum
All museums have lost income in the past two years, so we’ll explore ideas for commercial activity. How do you strike a balance between delivering your museum’s core purpose and running events that make a profit? We’ll hear from some museums that run commercial events to support their core purpose, and reflect on how to apply that. How do museums choose, develop and run their commercial activities and events, and what top tips will you take away?

West Yorkshire Museum Forum
Developing school and family audiences
Making our museums places that school and families want to visit is a key challenge. We’ll hear from a range of museums about what they’ve been doing, and gain some ideas about what you could do at your museum.