VoCHVoCH

Volunteers for Cultural Heritage: a Volunteers for Cultural Heritage: a partnership perspective on current partnership perspective on current

trends and future challengestrends and future challenges

Adele Finley Project PartnerManchester Museum

‘‘Heritage Hubs’Heritage Hubs’

Volunteers for Cultural HeritageVolunteers for Cultural Heritage

The VoCH ProjectThe VoCH Project Funded by EUFunded by EU A Partnership ProjectA Partnership Project Aims and scope of research Aims and scope of research

Volunteers and VolunteeringVolunteers and Volunteering

Commonalities of practiceCommonalities of practice

General PrinciplesGeneral Principles Management structuresManagement structures Community engagement / lifelong learningCommunity engagement / lifelong learning Accreditation and certificationAccreditation and certification Independent and volunteer-run museumsIndependent and volunteer-run museums FriendsFriends

Current TrendsCurrent Trends

Diversifying the Diversifying the workforceworkforce

As a route to As a route to EmploymentEmployment

On-line volunteeringOn-line volunteering

Short-term Short-term volunteeringvolunteering

Future ChallengesFuture Challenges

Internal Advocacy: encouragement and Internal Advocacy: encouragement and celebrationcelebration

Organisational offer: resourcing Organisational offer: resourcing volunteeringvolunteering

Weak infrastructure: establishing and Weak infrastructure: establishing and maintaining strong partnershipsmaintaining strong partnerships

Active CitizenshipActive Citizenship

‘‘I’ve got more confidence to talk to I’ve got more confidence to talk to people, being around people and people, being around people and feeling comfortable with it. feeling comfortable with it. Working within the Museum which Working within the Museum which I have never done before – you do I have never done before – you do see the place in different light.’see the place in different light.’

‘‘Initially some volunteers scarcely had Initially some volunteers scarcely had the confidence to walk through the the confidence to walk through the door. Now I see the same people door. Now I see the same people talking to everyone, speaking up talking to everyone, speaking up for themselves and playing an for themselves and playing an important role in the museum’important role in the museum’

Further InformationFurther Information

VoCH website: VoCH website: www.amitie.it/voch/index.htmlwww.amitie.it/voch/index.html

Janja Rebolj: City Museum of LjubljanaJanja Rebolj: City Museum of Ljubljana

janja.rebolj@mm-lj.sijanja.rebolj@mm-lj.si

01 2412 53501 2412 535 Adele Finley: The Manchester Museum Adele Finley: The Manchester Museum

adele.finley@manchester.ac.ukadele.finley@manchester.ac.uk

+44(0)161 275 8775+44(0)161 275 8775