Regular round-up of news for Museums in Cambridgeshire from Gordon Chancellor, Museums Partnership Officer.

There are several items this week:

1. The Cromwell Museum is advertising for a Museum Assistant, closing date 20 April
2. Can any museum out there recommend to me the names of anyone who has done high quality access audits?
3. The History of Advertising Trust in Norfolk is advertising for a Director, closing date 20 April
4. There is a maternity cover vacancy for an Artsmark and Arts Award Programme Manager, based in Norwich, closing date 27 April
5. Chatteris Museum is launching its exciting Ancient Human Occupation of Chatteris on 6 June
6. I have had an enquiry from a museum which is hoping to provide First Aid training to some of its staff and volunteers, and since this can be quite expensive they are wondering if any other museum which may be doing this with some spaces to fill? Alternatively they might organise something and offer spaces to others. Please let me know if you are interested.
7. There are some vacancies in the South East Museum Development team

Regular round-up of news for Museums in Cambridgeshire from Gordon Chancellor, Museums Partnership Officer.

I have a few items of news:

1. HLF are advertising for a Development Manager based at the Cambridge Office, closing date 20 April. See https://forms.hlf.org.uk/applications/HLFJobs_PublicPortal.ofml .

2. You may be interested in the Community Fair in St Ives on 2 June.
Cambridgeshire Community Fair – Event Programme

3. The East Midlands are advertising a contract for a regional collections adviser in the East Midlands fixed term to end March 2018. All enquiries for a Request For Quotation pack to claire.browne@leics.gov.uk . Closing date: 22 April. Total value of contract – £39,000 over three years.

4. The Cromwell Museum is looking for an A-board. Please let me know if you have one to spare.

5. I would like to confirm the date of the next Museums in Cambridgeshire meeting. It is at Grove Lodge, Cambridge, at 2pm on Thursday 30 April. I will be mailing an agenda soon.

6. As part of the ‘Memories in the Community’ project we have some places left on the learning disability and dementia awareness training days on 24 April in Ely (1pm to 4pm) and on 13 May in Cambridge (1pm to 4pm). If you have any questions about the training days please contact ‘Memories in the Community’ project officer Emma Cook: emmajvcook@gmail.com or 07913 880307.

Regular round-up of news for Museums in Cambridgeshire from Gordon Chancellor, Museums Partnership Officer.

There’s a mix of items this week:

1. The SHARE Front of House Forum has a training day at Ely Museum on 27 April. If you are in the north of Cambridgeshire I would urge you to consider signing up for this.

2. The HLF offices are moving tomorrow to Eastbrook, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8DF.

3. Please do consider nominating volunteers for a SHARE award – the deadline is tomorrow but I’d bet a nomination which drops through the SHARE mailbox first thing on Monday would not go straight in the bin.

4. I’m getting interested in hearing the experience of museums which have trustee indemnity insurance, so can you let me know if your museum does, please?

5. The recruitment process for trustees at the Cromwell has begun. The link is http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/cromwelltrust and the closing date is provisionally 23 April.

I’m sure you will join me in thanking Stuart Hobley for all he has done for museums in the region in his role as HLF Development Manager. Stuart is moving to become Head of the London region on 14 April and we will all miss the fantastic knowledge and advice he has imparted across the East over the last ten years. Kate Brown has asked me to say that if you want to email her a line to her by 7 April she will cut and paste into a card for Stuart.

Regular round-up of news for Museums in Cambridgeshire from Gordon Chancellor, Museums Partnership Officer.

Firstly I can confirm that the next meeting of Museums in Cambridgeshire (MiC) will be in the Syndicate Room at the Fitzwilliam Museum at 2pm on Thursday 30 April (I will send out more details in after Easter). Now other items:

•    The Farmland Museum is advertising for an Education Access Officer, closing date 17 April
  Advert – Education Access Officer – Farmland Museum
•    The deadline for nominations for both the SHARE volunteer awards and expressions of interest for the SHARE Mystery Shopper programme is 27 March. Please go to http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk / for all the details you will need for these two great initiatives.
• HLF have a Twitter Event from 3pm to 4pm  on 25 March. Tweet @HLFEoE with #HLFQandA.
• On 17 April in Southampton there is a marketplace for temporary exhibitions – if you would like the details please let me know (I’d rather not attach a 2 Mb file here).
• The Fitzwilliam also have vacancies for documentation interns, closing date 7 April.
  Documentation interns 2015 final 9315
• The Fitzwilliam Museum is looking for a Head of Learning, closing date 30 March
  Ad for Head of Learning

•  The next meeting of the SHARE Front of House Forum is at Chelmsford on 11 June. I understand that there will be a minibus to take folk to and from Cambridge for this event.
•    Norfolk Museums Service has just launched a new Conservation and Design Service at http://conserveanddisplay.co.uk/ – please do get in contact if you require their assistance at 01603 223387 enquiries@conserveanddisplay.co.uk.
•    The is an e-Hive collection management workshop at Stowmarket on 17 April
  ehive flyer Stowmarket
• The deadline for applying to win an artist(!) and £3,000 for Museums at Night October events is 27 March. Go to http://museumsatnight.org.uk/connect/ to read more. The deadline for registering Museums at Night May events at https://museumsatnight.wordpress.com/how-to-register-your-museums-at-night-event/ is tonight!
• May I draw your attention to the Front of House training at Ely on 27 April? Details are at http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/events/welcome-all-front-of-house-training/ .
• Last but not least, congratulations to St Neots Museum for achieving Full Accreditation!

Regular round-up of news for Museums in Cambridgeshire from Gordon Chancellor, Museums Partnership Officer.

1. Following the announcement in MiC newsletter no 3 of the MAA’s exhibition on the archaeology of childhood, I’d like to pass on the link to the project blog: https://archaeologyofchildhoodproject.wordpress.com/.

2. Please see information for the UCM Marketing and Communications Coordinator vacancy, closing date 7 April.

3. Details of the IWM Duxford Collections Assistant vacancies (closing dates tomorrow!) are at job number 40776 http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/JobsDesk.

4. The Cambridgeshire Aviation Museums Forum (CAMF)’s next meeting will almost certainly be at Alconbury on 29 June. Please let me know if you want to be added to the CAMF mailing list to get further details of the meeting.

5. I attach the British Association of Friends of Museums (BAFM) Eastern region March newsletter.

6. Don’t forget that the closing date for nominations for the SHARE volunteer awards is 27 March (see  http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/announcing-the-2015-share-volunteer-awards/).

7. To register an event for Cambridgeshire County Council’s ‘Home Front’ WW2 Anniversary go to cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ww2 where you can download the form.  If you would like to discuss your idea or would like any help or advice, do not hesitate to get in touch. You may also be interested in the following support which is available that could support your event:

• Help getting to and from events – Community Transport provides journeys for people who have difficulty using conventional public transport.
• Armed Forces Day grant funding – Funding of up to £10,000 is available for events marking Armed Forces Day at the end of June 2015. This is a link to a national funding scheme, the application deadline is Friday 27 March 2015.