Resource category: Volunteering

South West Museum Development Programme

Working with freelancers: Contracts, work plans and working effectively

How to protect and reassure both the museum and the freelancer through a contract, and ensure good working practice

Working with freelancers: Commissioning freelancers in a fair, inclusive and transparent way

A guide to fairly commissioning freelancers for projects in your museum

Working with freelancers: How to write an effective freelance brief

A guide to writing a clear, realistic brief for a freelancer, and what to include

Working with freelancers: Principles checklist

A checklist demonstrating the key principles involved in commissioning and working with freelancers

Volunteering: Your safeguarding policy and safe working procedures

Our guide to safeguarding policies and safe working procedures when working with young volunteers

Volunteering: Volunteer agreement template

A template for volunteer managers to adapt to use with their own volunteer team

Volunteering: Where are you now? – Volunteer management checklist

Our checklist can help review your museum’s volunteer management and identify any gaps

Volunteering: Confidentiality and data protection guidelines template

Use our template to help produce confidentiality and data protection guidelines for volunteers for your museum

Volunteering: Writing a volunteer policy guide

Use this guide to help you write and review your museum’s volunteer policy