Resources tagged with volunteers



Using Google Ads and Meta advertising to recruit remote volunteers

1. Project background In 2022-23, 17 heritage organisations were funded through the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Digital Skills for Heritage initiative to deliver digital volunteering projects. Some organisations recruited volunteers to work remotely on digital activity, doing everything from online transcription to geotagging.   2. Recruitment Organisations used online advertising tools Meta (serving platforms including … Read more

Create a remote global volunteer base to improve the searchability of digital archive

This is a ‘how to recruit, train, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background Archive services across Wales hold millions of irreplaceable records, including family and business papers, plans, photographs, parchments, personal diaries and council minutes. However, many are only minimally catalogued … Read more

Four women in warm, waterproof clothes carrying sticks and logs through a park.

Heritage Pulse: Spotlight on Volunteering

Results from the 2023 Heritage Pulse survey on the theme of volunteering. The questions covered management, retention and the areas where heritage organisations rely on heritage most.

Outside shot of Torre Abbey and surrounding gardens and grounds.

Digitising museum collections

This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background Boasting over 600 works of art, works include Pre-Raphaelite paintings and drawings by Holman Hunt and Burne-Jones, fine English glass, pewter and silver collections from the 18th Century. Being … Read more

Old passports, ration books and identity cards

Producing digitally creative and publicly engaging content that responds to archives

This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background CollabArchive is delivered by Nerve Centre in partnership with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). Nerve Centre is Northern Ireland’s leading creative media arts centre and PRONI … Read more

Pottery shard from a Farewell mug at Portland Museum

Creating 3D digital models of museum collection objects

This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background The Portland Museum houses a diverse and fascinating collection based on the themes of maritime history, quarrying and the Portland stone industry, dinosaurs and fossils, archaeology, folklore and local … Read more

Open laptop with a computer braille reader

Using volunteers to improve digital accessibility practices

This is a ‘how to recruit, manage and support volunteers’ guide produced as part of the Digital Skills for Heritage’s Digital Volunteering programme. 1. Project background The Heritage Access 2022 project looked at accessibility and inclusion across museums and cultural heritage sites in the UK. It is crucial that heritage organisations offer detailed, accessible, and … Read more