Category Archives: News
Trusts not immune from trouble
The Museums Association today (29 Feb 2012) reports the situation at Museums Sheffield. Nick Dodd has taken voluntary redundancy and is to step down as chief executive of Museums Sheffield in June. His departure forms part of a wide-ranging restructure … More
Seminar on Museum Governance Options
An MLA funded seminar at the Potteries Museum, Stoke-on-Trent on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 from 9:30 AM to 3:15 PM to discover governance options available to Museums, focusing on developing Charitable Trusts (NPDOs) and learning about Community Asset Transfer. Staffordshire … More
Fife Trust Update
Work to establish the Fife Cultural Trust, which will manage council-funded cultural services from 1st October this year, is progressing. Two new directors were appointed at the trust’s first board meeting held recently and will join the four Councillors appointed … More
Norfolk Says ‘No’ to Trust
The Museums Journal reports in its February 2012 edition (p11) the decision of Norfolk County Councillors not to create a trust to run Norfolk Museums and Archaeological Service. The piece quotes Councillor James Carswell as saying ‘ Members expressed considerable … More
Fife Council to set up cultural trust
Fife Council has decided to transfer services to a cultural trust by 1 October 2012. The new trust will manage and operate libraries, arts, museums and archives on behalf of the council, as well as the theatre provision currently provided … More
Economic Impact Toolkit launched for archives and museums
A major new tool which enables archives and museums to accurately assess their economic impact has been launched by the Archives, Libraries and Museums Alliance UK (ALMA-UK) and is now available on the AMLA-UK web site at http://almauk.org. The Economic … More
Economic Impact Toolkit launched for archives and museums
A major new tool which enables archives and museums to accurately assess their economic impact has been launched by the Archives, Libraries and Museums Alliance UK (ALMA-UK) and is now available on the AMLA-UK web site at http://almauk.org. The Economic … More
Case Study – Woodhorn Trust
Keith Merrin, Director of Woodhorn Trust, describes the origin of the trust and its recent expansion to take on board three other museums. Click here.
Philanthropy – a review
Philanthropy is a topic that has become of increasing interest as organisations explore different approaches to attracting funds. This paper gives an overview of the current activity in this area and puts forward some questions to stimulate debate.
Learn from Experience 2
This piece, which builds on the earlier post from Allan Moyes, is written by Shirley Collier, Chief Executive Officer of Scarborough Museums Trust. It offers a view from inside a trust and has some useful observations on what it is … More
