Helping Hands: Harnessing the Power of Volunteers
Online, Zoom
Volunteering in museums and galleries takes many different forms, from front of house, events and learning and engagement roles, through to behind-the-scenes activities such as cataloguing, gardening, fundraising and much more.
Whether your museum is struggling to recruit and retain volunteers or wants to ensure volunteering aligns with your strategic mission, this online conference is an opportunity to radically rethink how volunteers can contribute and what you can offer them.
Through case studies, provocations and panel discussions at this event you will discover…
- The latest approaches and trends to recruiting and retaining volunteers
- How to create flexible and accessible roles
- New and innovative ways to utilise the power of volunteers
- Schemes that can make your volunteer schemes more inclusive to diverse participants
- How to champion volunteers and ensure programmes match your museum’s values and strategic vision.
This event is for people who…
- work with, support and manage volunteers
- are volunteer managers or coordinators
- have an HR role
- manage volunteer-led museums
- are interested in how volunteering can help museums change lives.
A full programme will be available in due course.
Please note that this event will be recorded and available exclusively to delegates for three months. After that time, it will be made available to members on the Museums Association website.
We aim to present a diverse range of speakers from across the UK and internationally at our one-day conferences. If you are interested in speaking at one of our events, or have a project you’d like to see explored, please tell us more by emailing the events team.
Event fees
Concessionary Member – £36
Freelance and Consultant Member – £41
Member (Essential, Full, Institutional and Commercial members) – £46
Non-member – £67
Not a member? Join today and pay a discounted price for this event as well as receiving lots of other great benefits.
Inclusive event places
The Members Support Fund will provide five free places to this event to individual members who face barriers due to ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, and gender identity or sexual orientation (LGBTQ). These free places are part of our wider work towards creating a more inclusive sector. We will also support any accessibility requests such as provision of British Sign Language (BSL), audio description or closed captioning. The deadline to apply for an Inclusive Place is 3 September.
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