Many organisations are currently thinking about how they can improve their sustainability and resilience. The following resources are aimed at helping organisations through this process, both assessing their current situation and suggesting possible solutions.

MGS PDFs to download

Public engagement and consultation process: Museums Galleries Scotland: 2011
This paper provides guidance on a range of online resources that assist organisations to consult with the Public.

Conference papers from MGS

LARIA conference presentation: Museums Galleries Scotland: 2011
Presentation on the development of the Choices for Change toolkit and microsite and future work.

Scottish Third Sector Research Conference presentation: Museums Galleries Scotland: 2011
Presentation on the development of the Choices for Change toolkit and microsite and future work.

Links to downloads from other websites

Museums for the Future Renaissance South East, 2011. Being a truly sustainable museum isn’t just about having low energy lighting. It’s about museums striving to transform themselves, and the lives of their visitors, schools and local communities. This is the premise behind the Museums for the Future Toolkit, a newly published online resource.

Museums and galleries survival strategies. Renaissance North West, 2010
This publication is a guide for reducing operating costs and improving sustainability.

Sharper investment for changing times: getting more out of museums, libraries and archives. MLA, 2010
This paper proposes various solutions for the sustainability of the museum, library and archive sector.

Arts philanthropy: the facts, trends and potential. Arts and Business, 2010
This research report looks at current trends in philanthropy and uses the findings to identify possible opportunities for growth.

Positively Local: COSLA’s manifesto for public sector reform. Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, 2011.
COSLA’s suggested framework for public sector reform.

Links to other websites

Risk Awareness Profiling Tool. Renaissance West Midlands and Renaissance London, 2010
This tool enables organisations to assess their level of risk awareness, and identify where improvement is needed.

Sustainable Ability. Mission Models Money
Sustainable Ability is the website of a Mission Models Money project to help drive forward transformative responses to resource scarcity and climate change.

SCVO’s State of the Sector campaign provides charities, community groups, voluntary organisations and social enterprises with a platform to voice concerns and share solutions.

Arts & Business Scotland’s Skills Bank is a body of business people who are interested offering their business skills, in areas such as business planning, change or project management, to help an organisation focus on, and resolve, a particular management problem or task.