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VoCh – Volunteers for Cultural Heritage was a European project, funded by the European Commission Brussels as part of the Grundtvig lifelong learning programme. The project began in November 2007 and finished in October 2009.The project started out by acknowledging the importance of volunteering as a positive act of citizenship and the increasing significance of volunteers for preserving cultural heritage, promoting access to heritage and collections and, in many instances, running cultural institutions such as museums.Its main activities and outputs were: * Europe-wide research on volunteers in the cultural heritage sector * Identification of good practice case studies * Design, development and delivery of training schemes for volunteers and volunteer coordinators * Development and publication of guidelines for good practice when working with volunteers Adele Finley will present an overview of the research and its results before moving on to discuss the main trends and issues which emerged. She will explore the themes of participation, active citizenship and audience development by drawing on good practice case studies identified during the project.
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VoCHVoCH
Volunteers for Cultural Heritage: a Volunteers for Cultural Heritage: a partnership perspective on current partnership perspective on current
trends and future challengestrends and future challenges
Adele Finley Project PartnerManchester Museum
‘‘Heritage Hubs’Heritage Hubs’
Volunteers for Cultural HeritageVolunteers for Cultural Heritage
The VoCH ProjectThe VoCH Project Funded by EUFunded by EU A Partnership ProjectA Partnership Project Aims and scope of research Aims and scope of research
Volunteers and VolunteeringVolunteers and Volunteering
Commonalities of practiceCommonalities of practice
General PrinciplesGeneral Principles Management structuresManagement structures Community engagement / lifelong learningCommunity engagement / lifelong learning Accreditation and certificationAccreditation and certification Independent and volunteer-run museumsIndependent and volunteer-run museums FriendsFriends
Current TrendsCurrent Trends
Diversifying the Diversifying the workforceworkforce
As a route to As a route to EmploymentEmployment
On-line volunteeringOn-line volunteering
Short-term Short-term volunteeringvolunteering
Future ChallengesFuture Challenges
Internal Advocacy: encouragement and Internal Advocacy: encouragement and celebrationcelebration
Organisational offer: resourcing Organisational offer: resourcing volunteeringvolunteering
Weak infrastructure: establishing and Weak infrastructure: establishing and maintaining strong partnershipsmaintaining strong partnerships
Active CitizenshipActive Citizenship
‘‘I’ve got more confidence to talk to I’ve got more confidence to talk to people, being around people and people, being around people and feeling comfortable with it. feeling comfortable with it. Working within the Museum which Working within the Museum which I have never done before – you do I have never done before – you do see the place in different light.’see the place in different light.’
‘‘Initially some volunteers scarcely had Initially some volunteers scarcely had the confidence to walk through the the confidence to walk through the door. Now I see the same people door. Now I see the same people talking to everyone, speaking up talking to everyone, speaking up for themselves and playing an for themselves and playing an important role in the museum’important role in the museum’
Further InformationFurther Information
VoCH website: VoCH website: www.amitie.it/voch/index.htmlwww.amitie.it/voch/index.html
Janja Rebolj: City Museum of LjubljanaJanja Rebolj: City Museum of Ljubljana
[email protected]@mm-lj.si
01 2412 53501 2412 535 Adele Finley: The Manchester Museum Adele Finley: The Manchester Museum
[email protected]@manchester.ac.uk
+44(0)161 275 8775+44(0)161 275 8775
