Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 5 January 2024

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Developing an Inclusive Team
  • Do you want to engage more young people?
  • SERM Staff and Volunteer Survey
  • The last ever SHARE Conference!

Sector updates

  • Accreditation success
  • The Natural Sciences Collections Association Annual Conference & AGM: 
    Save the date and call for papers

SHARE training and events

  • Embedding Diversity in Museums: Developing an Inclusive Team
  • Deaccessioning and Disposal
  • Calculating your Museum’s Carbon Footprint
  • How Are You Doing? Measuring Performance in Museums
  • Easy Steps Towards Environmental Sustainability
  • More events coming up in January
  • February events

External training and events

  • Let’s Get Real: using digital to add value
  • Trustee Leadership Programme – Arts, Culture and Heritage
  • Digital Culture Network Grow Your Digital Content Skills with Google
  • The Audience Agency Place Forum
  • AIM Hallmarks at Home – Museum Admissions Pricing

Grant schemes and funding

  • Introduction workshop for National Lottery Project Grants
  • Collections Care and Conservation Grants
  • Now open: VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme

Resources

  • Planning and Delivering for Carbon Reduction at Your Museum
  • Wanted: 1930s/1940s telephone
  • Free Engine 

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities

Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 7 December 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Last chance to apply! SERM Cutting Carbon Programme
  • New! Steps to creating an Audience Development Plan
  • Collections Management Advice Surgeries – last chance to apply!
  • New start date! Developing an Inclusive Team
  • Accreditation successes
  • Tell us what you want!

Sector updates

  • Sandford Award 2024
  • Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 now open
  • 2023 Collections Trust Award – applications now open

SHARE training and events

  • Planning and Delivering Carbon Reduction in Your Museum
  • Embedding Diversity in Museums
  • Final Collections Management training sessions
  • Calculating your Museum’s Carbon Footprint
  • How Are You Doing? Measuring Performance in Museums
  • Easy Steps Towards Environmental Sustainability
  • Carbon Literacy Training
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • AIM admissions pricing research – report and webinar
  • Bitesize Talk: Working with Artists for Environmental Storytelling

Grant schemes and funding

  • VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme
  • The Fore Trust
  • ACE Developing Your Creative Practice
  • Co-op Foundation Young Gamechangers Fund
  • Hubbub: The Nature Hubs Fund
  • AIM Pilgrim Trust: Collections Care and Conservation Grants

Resources

  • VisitEngland Accessible and Inclusive Toolkit for Business
  • Creating Self-Guided Resources for Families

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities

Read the SERM Green Your Museum Newsletter – December 2023

Read the latest SERM Green newsletter, this edition we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Carbon Literacy Action Day
  • Staff and Volunteer Survey

Funding and programmes

  • Towards Net Carbon Zero
  • Cutting Carbon Programme

Upcoming training

  • Planning and Delivering Carbon Reduction at your Musuem
  • Calculating your Museums Carbon Footprint
  • Easy Steps Towards Environmental Sustainability
  • Carbon Literacy
  • Engaging Audiences with Environmental Sustainability
  • Carbon Impact of Travel and Logistics at Your Museum
  • Funding options for Museum Carbon Reduction Projects
  • Seeds for Action Programme
  • Further training opportunities

Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 22 November 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Developing an Inclusive Team
  • SHARE’s Environmentally Responsible Museums Project

Sector updates

  • Introducing All In

SHARE training and events

  • Embedding Diversity in Museums
  • Wider Reach – visitor research 101
  • Planning and Delivering Carbon Reduction in Your Museum
  • How Are You Doing? Measuring Performance in Museums
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Museum Development North West Seeds for Action: Engaging People in Climate Conversations
  • Our Broken Planet: Bridging Industry and Environment, Navigating Complexity with Museum Audiences
  • Spark! For boards of museums which are volunteer-run (or mainly volunteer-run)

Grant schemes and funding

  • AIM Connected Communities
  • SHARE Towards Net Zero Carbon grants
  • Arts for Impact – Unlocking Match Funding
  • Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) Round 4
  • ACE extends Creative People and Places Programme

Resources

  • Charity Commission’s new social media guidance

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • Paid opportunities
  • Voluntary opportunities

Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 9 November 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • SERM Cutting Carbon Programme
  • The last ever SHARE Christmas Quiz!
  • Congratulations to the Red House!

Sector updates

  • Financial relief for organisations impacted by Storm Babet floods
  • Government Indemnity Scheme Review
  • The Museums + Heritage awards 2023 are open

SHARE training and events

  • An Eco Lens on Collections
  • Working Meaningfully with Young People
  • Museums in a Nutshell
  • Planning and Delivering Carbon Reduction in Your Museum
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • Religion, Collections & Heritage Group (SSN) Conference
  • Developing inclusive activities for families with Special Education Needs and Disabilities
  • Energy Efficiency and Old Buildings
  • Inventory and Documentation Planning for Accreditation Mentors Q&A

Grant schemes and funding

  • The Million Hours Fund, DCMS & National Lottery Community Fund
  • AIM Connected Communities
  • SHARE Towards Net Zero Carbon grants
  • Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants changes

Resources

  • Social Media changes

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • SERM tender
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities

Read the latest SHARE newsletter! 25 October 2023

Read the latest SHARE newsletter, this week we covered the following:

Headline messages

  • Annual Museums Survey county reports and more tools available
  • Congratulations to the Shuttleworth Trust!
  • Collections Trust documentation procedures manual guidance
  • Arts Council England freelance workforce survey
  • Understanding Creative Health survey
  • Generating more donations (SHARE events)
  • Towards Net Zero Carbon Grants
  • 2023 Collections Trust Award – applications now open 

SHARE training and events

  • Wider Reach 2023 – Visitor Research 101
  • An Eco Lens on Collections
  • Museums in a Nutshell
  • More events coming up

External training and events

  • South East Museum Development: Museum Leader’s Coffee Chats – Advocating for Green Changes
  • Rural Museums Network: Food for thought
  • Introduction to the Protection of Cultural Venues (CPD Certified) programme

Grant schemes and funding

  • Arts Council England updates to National Lottery Project Grants
  • Beecroft Bequest
  • AIM Arts Scholars Brighter Day Grant Scheme
  • Hypercharged Foundation Grants

Resources

  • SHARE Resource highlight: Successful Digital Fundraising

Job opportunities

  • Accreditation mentors
  • SERM tender
  • Paid opportunities 
  • Voluntary opportunities
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