Dear Colleague

There is an exceptionally long list of news this week!

1. Wisbech Museum is advertising the post of Project manager for the HLF-funded ‘Fit for the Future’ project, closing date 17 February. Details of the post are attached. Last week the Museum and the project featured on Anglia TV at Search : wisbech museum | Anglia – ITV News.
2. The David Parr House is advertising for a Project Manager and Audiences & Learning Manager for the HLF-funded ‘Life and Art in a Workers House’ project, closing date 9 February.  Further information can be found on their website news section  http://davidparrhouse.org/tours-2/ .
3. The Museum of Cambridge is advertising two posts (Project Manager and Assistant) for their Esmée Fairbairn-funded ‘Tracing Traditions’ project, closing dates 27 January. Details are at https://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/Jobs2/full_job_descriptions/46943.htm and https://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/Jobs2/full_job_descriptions/46944.htm.
4. The SHARE Children and Young People conference is at Ely Cathedral on 7 February. Details are at http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/events/object-lessons-4-share-festival-bridge-and-royal-opera-house-bridge-children-and-young-people-conference/. I shall be wearing my winter woollies!
5. Congratulations to the Norris Museum on being awarded £50,000 from the SHARE Ready to Borrow programme. The deadline for applications to round two is 26 May at click here and there are complementary small grants at click here.
6. Just a reminder of the excellent-looking SHARE fundraising event on 24 January at Introduction to Fundraising – Peterborough .
7. Peterborough Museum is also selling a fascinating children’s booklet called ‘Issy and the Leedsichthys’, http://www.bigjurassicfish.com/schools/story/ (see attached).
8. If you’ve wanted to know how to improve your ‘pitch’ to businesses and other organisations consider the ACE-funded ‘Pitch Perfect’ training at Huntingdon on 8-9 February, details at http://www.cambridgeshiremusic.org/assets/PDF/pitch-perfect-training-course-information.pdf .
9. The Museums and Universities Partnership Initiative has an event at the Fitzwilliam Museum on 21 February. To book visit: https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/work-with-us/current-projects/museum-university-partnerships-initiative
10. The latest newsletter of the British Association of Friends of Museums is attached.
11. Finally you may like to look at this useful and self-explanatory blog at https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-on-designing-for-accessibility/.

Dear colleague

Happy New Year and here are a few items of news to start 2017:

1. Chatteris Museum invites you to a Must Farm exhibition at Chatteris Church on 12 January, 3pm-6pm (see attached).
2. Please see the attached notice of an ACE-funded project designed to help small museums make links with industry, called ‘Symbiosis’.
3. There is a seminar in London on 12 January to promote an ACE-funded museum volunteering project called ‘Volunteer Makers’, which has obvious parallels with our own SWIM project. Further information is at http://volunteermakers.org/national-volunteer-engagement-training-programme/volunteer-makers-london-south-east-seminar/
4. The University Museum of Zoology is advertising for an Education Assistant, closing date 24 January. Details are at http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/12501/.
5. Wisbech Museum has been in the local news a fair bit over the last few weeks e.g. http://www.wisbechstandard.co.uk/news/fighting_for_the_future_of_wisbech_and_fenland_museum_the_grim_reality_of_what_happens_when_a_council_withdraws_funding_1_4837769
6. Chatteris Museum have some surplus Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, free to good homes. If the museum wants to contact Ian Mason at chatterismuseum@tiscali.co.uk and 07979-334833. They are for these years: 1951,2,3, 1964, 1972-3,8, 1981-3,8-9, 1990-1 & 2 (vol. 1),5-6,9, 2001-9.
7. English Heritage is advertising for a Curator of Art Collections based in Cambridge, closing date 8 January. See https://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/Jobs2/full_job_descriptions/46822.htm

Dear colleague

Here is the last items of Cambridgeshire museum news for 2016…

1. For those of you who saw Alice Roberts’s terrific film of Must Farm on the TV a few nights ago (or even for those who didn’t!), why not visit the Roadshow in Chatteris on 12 January (see attached)?
2. Burwell Museum have some more items to dispose of (see attached). As usual if you are interested please contact them on education@burwellmuseum.org.uk or 01638 605544.
3. Kettle’s Yard are advertising for a Learning and Engagement Assistant, closing date 9 January, at http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/12404/.
4. The Art Fund have some excellent training courses coming up for curators; details at https://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/whitechapel-gallery-career-development-courses.
5. The next round of the Esmée Fairbairn collections grants is now open with closing date 15 March, at http://www.museumsassociation.org/collections/18022011-esmee-fairbairn-collections-fund.
6. The SHARE Co-Production Network has launched a small grants scheme of up to £400. The application form can be found here, and please read this document before applying. Find out more about co-production on the SHARE website: http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/networks/.
7. SHARE are offering bursaries to attend the Edinburgh retail conference (see attached form), deadline 12 January.

Merry Christmas and very best wishes for 2017!

Dear colleague

Here is this week’s news:

1. Just a reminder of the excellent UCM/SHARE collection care conference on 20 January at Hughes Hall, Cambridge at http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/events/3rd-annual-share-collections-care-conference/.
2. The ‘Papworth 100’ heritage project (see attached brief) is looking for a film maker.
3. The V&A Professional Development programme for Spring/Summer 2017 is now available at the V&A website and their dedicated LinkedIn showcase page. The full course booklet is also available to download here (PDF).
4. The Museums Association is inviting tenders for research into museum mentoring. See http://www.museumsassociation.org/news/06122016-ma-tenders-for-research-into-mentoring-best-practice.
5. The Arts Council’s Museums and Resilient Leadership Programme is open for application until 31 January. Go to the MRL website to find out more and follow the link to apply for the Programme.

1. The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is looking for an Administrative Assistant, closing date 4 January, at http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/12225/.
2. Saffron Walden Museum wants to borrow a wide-brimmed Edwardian hat, a 1920s cloche hat and some mannequin heads, for an exhibition which will run from the end of January to the end of July 2017. If you can help, please email Leah Mellors at LMellors@uttlesford.gov.uk.
3. I realise it’s VERY short notice but I have only just heard about a rare opportunity to see the remains of a Medieval Augustinian Friary in Cambridge! The Archaeology Open Day is on the New Museums Site (see attached) on Saturday 17 December.
4. SHARE have an excellent fundraising workshop in Peterborough on 24 January. See http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/events/introduction-to-fundraising/.

Dear colleague

Here are a few news items this week:

1. Bottisham Airfield Museum is inviting comments and views at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/bottishamairfieldmuseum.
2. The Sedgwick Museum is advertising for a mineralogy/petrology assistant at http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/11492/.
3. The Stained Glass Museum is recruiting trustees (see attached information pack). They are looking especially for individuals with professional experience in any of the following areas: finance, development, business, HR/legal, education, marketing, retail and museums. Please send expressions of interest by Friday 27 January 2017. For an informal chat contact Jasmine Allen (Curator), curator@stainedglassmuseum.com and 01353 660355.
4. The Churches Conservation Trust is looking for an Administration Assistant in Cambridge, closing date 9 December, at https://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/Jobs2/full_job_descriptions/46548.htm.
5. A reminder of the SHARE Volunteer Coordinators Forum meeting on 15 December at the wonderful new Palace House in Newmarket. The next meeting after that will be on 14 March at Anglesey Abbey.