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Hi Richard Thanks for the advice. It's something I thought would be quite simple to decide but definitely not. We've got a couple of opportunities that are throwing our provisional 'regular' dates out for this year, so we've decided to go October, March, June and then kick off with a September-June programme of 4/5 talks for next year. Much appreciated Lucy-Ann Lucy-Ann Pickering Education and Learning Manager [log in to unmask] ............................................................................ The Royal Mint Museum Llantrisant, Pontyclun CF72 8YT ............................................................................ Tel: +44 (0) 1443 623337 (Direct) [logo for email][cid:image002.png@01D2FC89.5A7DAAF0] From: Richard Ellam [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 13 July 2017 13:23 To: Lucy-Ann Pickering Cc: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Talks programmes (scheduling) HI Lucy About fifteen years ago I set up 'Science in Radstock' a winter monthly programme of science talks at my local museum in Radstock. These now get regularly get and audience of 40-60 people. We run two three month 'terms' ; sept, oct, nov and feb, march, april. We don't do dec and jan as the museum is closed in these months. The important thing in getting an audience is regularity: SiR as ALWAYS on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm. This allows people to plan ahead, and helps with getting a regular audience. Summer talks never work as well as winter ones because folk want to do more outdoor things when the evenings are light, and sitting in a lecture looses out to sitting in the garden or whatever. If you're going to run through the winter then having a Christmas lecture may be a good idea - but you need to make it a highlight of your lecture season, with something like a big name, or something with lots of live demonstrations aimed at a family audience. Don't run this too near Dec 25, as if you get into the week before Xmas you'll lose your audience to other jollities. hope this helps, and good luck! Regards Richard. Richard Ellam L M Interactive Science Shows and Hands-On Stuff [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.lminteractive.co.uk<https://url6.mailanyone.net/v1/?m=1dVd9G-0001aZ-4d&i=57e1b682&c=_Si4nh4jGWvSZ7qLwvdVx-HBKGWSSJn3oy194R-r5IXtVc9xJrx9-qcBozBr7HjhI1mv0STOA5YNUcXQz3qMK_M7gWp7DIhkoViMaROIXcAy23zduTZR5a6c4djxlFDZCiGCkHQJGdOFZkhJJYNKUCMAY-PJaXMY8X_OL4u3MW9ZkHIBhFqz98gZYKAlCldKJ2TolqgBUYky88djirRAkuYvo8r9XEe3s4RpgsSH8v0> On 13 Jul 2017, at 12:25, Lucy-Ann Pickering <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Good afternoon GEMmers We're running a pilot for evening talks at the Royal Mint Experience this month, with the hope that we can expand it into a year-round talks programme. I'm struggling to make a decision on which months of the year to go with/avoid i.e. Feb-November (every other month?) or March-October. Are Christmas lectures a good idea? And how many to put on. 4 - quarterly lectures? 6 - every other month? 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