The museum is run by a team of dedicated volunteers. There are lots of reasons to join our team, everyone gets something different out of donating their time – sharing a love of local history with fellow volunteers and visitors, making friends and meeting people, learning new things, working as part of a team, knowing you are keeping the museum safe for future generations.
We are always looking to new volunteers so if you would like to join us please take a look at the opportunities below or contact us and let us know how you can help.
Stewards work in pairs. The role entails opening the museum and greeting visitors and doing a little bit of housekeeping. Stewards will be given opportunities to become familiar with the collections and training will be given on the accessioning system. The most important attributes of the stewards are to be friendly, personable and enjoy meeting people.
Market Lavington Museum is a charity and the role of the trustees is to ensure that the museum is carrying out its purposes for the public benefit. Trustees look after the museum and act in its best interests, they manage it responsibly with care and skill so that it will be available to future generations. The trustees meet regularly to maintain the museum fabric and plan for the future. This requires a wide range of skills but most importantly a commitment to the future of the museum. Currently the meetings are early evenings in someone’s house.
Market Lavington Museum has entered the digital age and we have a lot of records which need to be entered onto the museum computer. This requires some training in the use of the Modes program and also a level of IT competence.
During the closure of the museum there has been a build up of artefacts that need accessioning. This is a skilled process and training will be given. It involves taking legal ownership of an item in order to take care of it and it assigns a unique number that will link each object to the information about it. It is the very beginning of an artefact’s life in the museum.
Market Lavington Museum has a new website. This will need to be updated by someone who has skills with WordPress. If you have these skills we would love to have you on board.
Experience with MailChimp would also be helpful.
Market Lavington Museum is housed in an old building so there is work needed to maintain the fabric of the building and the ground around it. There are regular working parties of volunteers but someone who could carry out small maintenance jobs as they arise and look at future needs of the building would be brilliant.
There are a lot of people who have expressed an interest in regular updates from the museum. We need someone to write a regular short newsletter to keep everyone up to date.
Ideally the volunteer will proficient in using MailChimp to send e-newsletters but this is not essential.
At present the archivist and the curator are one and the same person. The role of the archivist is to assess, collect, organise and preserve the records deemed to have value to the museum. While market lavington is a very small museum this is a very important job. Training and support will be given to an appropriate person.
The role of the Company Secretary is to support the Chair and the Board in ensuring the smooth functioning of the Trustee meetings and the charity’s governance and compliance requirements. Market Lavington Museum complies with the requirements of charity and company law.
Market Lavington Museum is a charity and the role of the trustees is to ensure that the museum is carrying out its purposes for the public benefit. Trustees look after the museum and act in its best interests, they manage it responsibly with care and skill so that it will be available to future generations. The trustees meet regularly to maintain the museum fabric and plan for the future. This requires a wide range of skills but most importantly a commitment to the future of the museum. Currently the meetings are early evenings in someone’s house.
Name of volunteer: Jackie Clark Volunteer role: Trustee I have lived in Market Lavington for 34 years. I met Peggy Gye shortly after we moved to the village and we attended many of her village tal…
Name of volunteer: Pat Stacpoole Volunteer role: Steward How fortunate we are to have our own village museum! It has something for everyone and that is the fun of being a steward. People from all …
Name of volunteer: Angela Cope Volunteer role: Steward I’d visited the museum several times and always found it full of interesting objects which give a real sense of our local past, but d…
If you would like to volunteer specific skills or if they are no suitable opportunities currently available to suit you please contact us with some information about you and your skills and we will be in touch.