Category: training

The National Lottery Heritage Fund is hosting a series of free webinars and panel discussions this spring 2023 to help raise awareness of the need for greater digitisation across the UK’s heritage sector. They are also publishing new, specially commissioned, guidance designed to help small, volunteer-led, organisations better prepare for digitisation projects while keeping their costs down.

The two guides –  commissioned by The Heritage Fund as part of its Digital Skills for Heritage initiative and authored by Dr Andrea Wallace and Dr Mathilda Pavis – are:

• ‘Digitisation Project Planner & Toolkit’ – to help institutions, organisations and communities plan for a digitisation project, published 29 March;
• ‘Doing digitisation on a budget: a guide to low-cost digital projects’ – to inspire and support smaller digitisation projects, launching online, 28 March.

The free events include a panel discussion focused on Digitisation Leadership (31 March, 12-5pm, online and in-person at Hamilton House, London), which is open to the public and features experts from the UK’s leading digitisation organisations, discussing how the UK heritage sector can hope to get the best possible value from investment in digitisation.

More details here: https://aim-museums.co.uk/free-events-new-guidance-digitisation-launched-heritage-fund/

Bookings are open for the Carbon Literacy for Industrial Heritage Museums course. West Midlands Museum Development (WMMD) and Museum Development East Midlands (MDEM) are partnering to deliver several rounds of training, using the Carbon Literacy for Museums Toolkit developed by Museum Development and the Carbon Literacy Trust as part of the national Roots and Branches project.

What is a Carbon Literacy course? The Carbon Literacy course will give you an understanding of what climate change is, the scale of its effects, and how museums fit into the global, national and local picture to address climate change. You become Carbon Literate by making an individual pledge, and an organisational pledge to take back to your museum, of what you can do, and is in your power to achieve, to make a significant difference to your carbon impact.

Please note that due to the project’s funding requirements from ACE priority for places will be given to museums who are Accredited or ‘Working Towards Accreditation’. If non-Accredited museums wish to attend then please contact Olvia Basterfield for details of available places at: olivia.bastefield@ironbridge.org.uk

A link to the webpage for more information and to book places https://mdwm.org.uk/events/carbon-literacy-for-industrial-heritage-museums/

Heritage Digital Academy are offering free online training events on all things digital for heritage organisations across the UK for summer 2022. These sessions are design to help individuals develop new digital practices and build key skills that can be brought back to their organisation.

Click on the links to see more details of the programme events:

• 8 June – Webinar: What is a data protection officer and why does your organisation need one? 
• 9 June – Webinar: What is copyright and creative commons?
• 23 June – Workshop: Copyright considerations for digital services
• 28 June – Workshop: Building and growing your audience with digital
• 5 July – Workshop: Understanding Data Protection and making a plan to stay compliant

To sign up or learn more, visit the Heritage Digital Academy Website

Museums Worcestershire has produced a set of free online resources for heritage organisations, which may be of interest to any early-career staff, trainees, or volunteers in the Industrial Heritage sector.

The free toolkits and training videos are designed to support heritage staff wishing to improve their skills and to aid recovery from the effects of the pandemic. The topics are wide-ranging including guidance on fundraising, learning, marketing, volunteering, events, and collections.

The ‘No One Left Behind’ project is a partnership between Museums Worcestershire and Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service (WAAS), funded by Historic England.

These resources can be accessed via the following link: www.museumsworcestershire.org.uk/no-one-left-behind.