Hi Debra

I work on one of the 12 National Lottery Heritage Funded Kick the Dust project called Ignite Yorkshire. We have had successful outcomes using Arts Award as a way to structure work placements at Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust. This was well received by the participants, who appreciated the added value of gaining a qualification and was also useful for the museum teams to plan a meaningful experience for the young people involved.

There is more information about this example and others in this blog :

https://blog.artsaward.org.uk/delivering-bronze-through-work-experience

I hope this is useful and good luck with running the placements.

With best wishes,

Marie

Happy Monday everyone,

I have a query in regard to work experience students.

We used to offer places for students on work experience weeks. Since we closed our main site for refurbishment we haven’t been in a position to offer this but are looking at how we might resurrect this once we are open and up and running again.

I’m keen to know how are other museums operating their work experience programmes? We are going to be looking what we offer for University students separately, what I’m asking about are programmes for those under 18.

Are you offering a very specific project or do you give a general overview with a day a week in each area/department?

Do you take under 16s and 16 – 18s? Do you offer different programmes for the different age groups?

Any information you would like to share with me would be most helpful.

Thank you all in advance.

With kind regards,

Debra Cox  |  Public Programme Manager

01604 837164

Northampton Museums & Art Gallery | Northampton Borough Council | The Guildhall, St Giles Square, Northampton NN1 1DE | 0300 330 7000

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