Using the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Roadmap
Discover how our new EDI Roadmap could help your museum develop its approach to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.
Rebuilding the Foundations: Gloucestershire’s Museums was a National Lottery Heritage funded project which focused on securing a future for museums that is engaged, relevant and sustainable.
The project empowered ten participant museums to develop the capacity of their volunteer workforces, engage with a broader audience, and promote their museums as unique parts of Gloucestershire’s cultural landscapes.
Rebuilding the Foundations interrogated current models of volunteer involvement and audience engagement and invigorated museums’ thinking about their structures and processes, helping them to roadmap for the future.
Through this project, museums are now able to plan offers and opportunities that are more relevant to a broader range of volunteers, leading to increased engagement and diversity in audiences and with their communities.
More information about the project process and outcomes can be found in the Rebuilding the Foundations: Gloucestershire’s Museums project resource.
This project enabled participant museums to analyse where their offer to volunteers and audiences could change and then to plan the steps needed to make these changes. It put technical knowledge and skills in place to provide and maintain flexible and varied volunteer opportunities to new groups; to reach out to under-represented groups as audiences, supporters and volunteers; and to welcome them appropriately and safely, supported by robust and effective policies and procedures
The project also engendered a culture across participant museums of tackling priority needs, individually and together, unlocking the potential of a more responsive, connected and confident museum sector in Gloucestershire.
Mark George from Dean Heritage Centre explains how the Organisational Health Check helped to provide a baseline of where the museum was and where to improve.
Sarah McCormick Healy discusses the process of working with a consultant on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), and how Court Barn Museum will embed EDI into their culture.
Chris Hill outlines how Jet Age Museum have acted on recommendations that emerged from the Rebuilding the Foundations: Gloucestershire’s Museums project.
Sarah McCormick Healy from Court Barn Museum explains the importance of appointing a safeguarding lead, which was one of the recommendations of the Safeguarding consultant.
Rebuilding the Foundations has resulted in the development of a range of tried and tested resources available for other museums, heritage organisations and sector development officers.
Discover how our new EDI Roadmap could help your museum develop its approach to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion.
Our major project supporting ten museums in Gloucestershire has come to a close. Find out more about the project and its impacts.
Read our update at the six month mark for this project supporting 10 Gloucestershire museums.
Read our latest update for our project supporting 10 Gloucestershire museums.
We are pleased to be investing in and supporting freelance consultants as part of the our Rebuilding the Foundations: Gloucestershire’s Museums project.
Our new project project, supporting museums in Gloucestershire reach under-represented communities