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Volunteering Programme
Simon Goff Head of Green Spaces and Amenites
Pennine Lancashire Museums: Shared Services
• Smaller Budgets
• Fewer Staff
• Non-priority, non-statutory service
• PL Museums trust?
Background to Shared Services Programme
Shared Museums Report: Pontefract & Bell
• Marketing
• Retail Offer
• Exhibitions Programme
• Education
• Volunteering
Pennine Lancashire Museums MDF Programme
Marketing £17,500
Retail Offer £5,000
Exhibitions Programme £5,000
Education £15,000
Volunteering & shared staff £17,500
Volunteering Strand: Aims
Support Pennine Lancashire Museums by
developing a sustainable volunteering
programme that attract volunteers from
varied backgrounds
What success will look like:
• standardised roles, procedures and policies
• Joint training, advertising and recruitment
• Easy system for registering as a volunteer
Investigating Good Practice:
• Harris, Ironbridge MT, Reading Museums
• National Council for Volunteering: “Get it Right from
the Start”
• Volunteering England: ‘Volunteers and the Law
• ‘Volunteering in Museums and Cultural Heritage’
• Museums Australia ‘Willing and Able’
• Identified and quantified volunteer roles
• Developed 13 volunteer role descriptions
• Prepared a welcome pack
• No joint volunteer policy
• Investigated volunteer management software
Outcomes:
• Identified and quantified volunteer roles
• Developed 13 Volunteer Role Descriptions
• Prepared Welcome Pack
• No joint Volunteer Policy
• Purchased volunteer management software
Volunteer² SoftwareWeb Based Volunteer Management Software
• Recruit through own website/Artsmap
• Self-register and select roles based on qualification
• Allow volunteers to work in different museums
• Communicate easily with volunteers by email/text
• Maintain records
• Provide management report
Volunteer² SoftwareWeb Based Volunteer Management Software
Administrator
Blackburn Museum
Towneley Queen St Mill Howarth Whittaker Gawthorpe Etc.
Volunteer² Software
Description Unit Cost Quantity Line TotalVPIE Volunteer Impact Enterprise Edition Initial Licensing Fee 3,000.00 1 3,000.00VPNC Volunteer Impact Accounts 160.00 4 640.00BPNE0050
Licence Fee £3,000
Set up accounts £600
Annual licence fee (9 venues) £375
Shared Museums Programme: Next Steps
• Install pull-up displays at venues
• Print and distribute volunteer leaflets
• Refresher training for volunteer coordinators
• Hold volunteer open days in venues