Gain confidence in emergency planning and salvage for collections. Practical sessions will give you the opportunity to get hands-on.

Waitlist

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Facilitators

Claire Fry ACR, Director, Spencer and Fry

What will be covered?

Gain confidence in emergency planning and salvage for collections.

This course will cover all aspects of emergency planning, including prevention measures, what makes a good emergency plan and how to protect and rescue collections.

Practical sessions will give you the opportunity to get hands-on experience of salvage techniques.

Format of session

One-day, in-person session combining presentation and practical salvage exercises. There will be opportunities for questions throughout the day.

Learning objectives

Links to Accreditation Standard section 3 Organisational Health – 3.1: A clear, workable emergency plan.

Understand why emergency planning is important

Have gained knowledge to help you respond to an emergency situation for your collection

Be able to update or write an emergency plan

Have skills to protect, pack and carry out basic first aid for collections

Who should attend?

This session is designed for attendees who are novice (no experience) or beginner (would like to learn more).

Refreshments

Tea and coffee will be provided, you will need to bring your own lunch.

Accessibility

To help us ensure you get the most out of the session, you will be asked to email us with any access requirements you may have when you complete your order form. Please see the list of examples of adjustments we can make (https://mdse.org.uk/about-us/plans-and-policies/event-booking-terms-conditions/#access). This list is not exhaustive and we would be happy to accommodate other requirements where possible, please email us to discuss.

Eligibility

MDSE is funded by Arts Council England (ACE) to support museums in the South East of England within ACE’s Accreditation scheme. The South East is defined as the local authority areas of:

Bedfordshire (Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Borough)

Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead and Wokingham)

Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock

Hertfordshire

Kent and Medway

Norfolk

Oxfordshire

Suffolk

Surrey

East Sussex and Brighton & Hove

West Sussex

We prioritise places on our training programmes for museums which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation. ACE publishes the official lists of Accredited (https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/document/list-accredited-museums-uk-channel-islands-and-isle-man) and Working Towards Accreditation (https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/document/list-museums-working-towards-accreditation) museums on its website. Where possible we will make places available for museums which do not meet these criteria but the number of places will vary depending on the event format.

Terms & Conditions:

For full details of our programmes conditions, see our Terms and Conditions (https://mdse.org.uk/about-us/plans-and-policies/event-booking-terms-conditions/) on our website

By booking a place on to a Museum Development South East training event, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

That you are from a South East museum which is in Arts Council England’s Museum Accreditation Scheme. Where this is not applicable you acknowledge that MDSE will facilitate your attendance if availability permits and that you or your organisation will pay any fees which may apply.

It is a condition of receiving this ACE funded training that the online evaluation sent to the email address provided at the point of booking is completed by the specified deadline. This deadline is in the email notification unless a paper evaluation is specifically requested and submitted on the day of the training session.

By booking a place you agree that you will make every endeavour to attend the event and you will give us at least 24 hours’ notice if you need to cancel your booking. If you repeatedly cancel your booking without sufficient notice you agree that we may exercise our right to remove you from future event bookings.

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