Free Media Trust Online Training During Small Charities Week

Media Trust is a well established charity devoted to supporting charities with media advice/training. For Small Charities Week they are providing some free online media related training opportunities that might be of interest to those charities running industrial heritage sites.

On 15 June Media Trust has a free on-the-spot session for digital and communications advice, ideas, and feedback from leading media and creative industry volunteers. If you would like tips on effectively communicating your stories, are looking to increase engagement on social media or there are aspects of your communications strategy that you would like input on, this event is an excellent way to get real-time advice, ideas, and feedback. Follow the link below for booking.

Small Charity Week Comms Coaching | Media Trust

And over the summer Media Trust and Google are holding a series of three, free, online workshops between June and July on ‘Digital Marketing Strategy’, ‘How to Get started with Analytics’, and ‘How To Set up and Grow your Charity Online’. Sign up here.

Heritage Digital Free Guidelines on Social Media & Volunteers

The latest free downloadable guidelines from Heritage Digital have been released to celebrate the end of Volunteers Week. Heritage Digital are also running an online webinar on 175th June on recruiting, retaining, and managing digital volunteers.

The first digital guide is ‘Working with volunteers’ and offers advice to when it comes to the rights of volunteers and the material they create. This can be downloaded from here: Charity Digital – Resources – Digital guide: Working with volunteers: Copyright consideration The second digital guide is a template that can be used as a starting point to ensure that your social media remains on brand and consistent. This can be downloaded from here: Charity Digital – Resources – Digital Template: Social Media Guidelines

Heritage Digital is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund Digital Skills for Heritage funding stream, and aims to increase the amount of free digital skills training and support available to heritage organisations. Booking for the free webinar on the 15th June can be made here: Charity Digital – Heritage Digital Events

Rebuilding Heritage Webinars, ‘Survival to Sustainability’, now booking

The Heritage Alliance’s Rebuilding Heritage programme is now taking bookings for its latest round of free webinars during late May through to July. The theme for the latest series of webinars is the post-pandemic recovery and moving from ‘survival to sustainability’.

The Rebuilding Heritage programme is also providing free one-to-one and group support for organisations and individuals in the heritage sector. This support is open to organisations (including voluntary organisations) and to individuals. Applications are now open to receive support July to August. Deadline for applications is 1st June 2021.

Webinar bookings can be made here: Rebuilding Heritage webinars