We are looking for trustees to join the NWFed board. We are an independent membership organisation for the museum and heritage sector and our current focus is to grow membership, cultivate new partnerships, diversify our reach, and deliver a range of inclusive activities to support museum professionals and volunteers in the North West. In order to support our programme by ...

Following the sad closure of the Yorkshire Fed earlier this year, we would like to encourage anyone from the North who feels they would benefit from taking part in our online and face-to-face events and training - like In Conversation and Museum Basics, as well as other national and regional networking opportunities - to join us. As an individual member, you can also apply for small ...

Our Chair, Helen Fairs, shares some updates from the NWFed board, including changes to the team, what we've been up to in recent months and tweaks to our small grants scheme. It was October last year at our Annual General Meeting that I started my role as Chair of NWFed, which equally feels like just yesterday and a long time ...

People's History Museum, Manchester Join us for our next event for NWFed membersWednesday 6th July 2022, 10.00 - 4.00pm BOOK HERE At this one-day conference at the People’s History Museum (#Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022 finalist and Activist Museum 2021-22 Winner) in Manchester we will discuss the ways in which museums in the North West are working with ...

Dwight is our newest member of the NWFed board and joined us in summer 2021, bringing extensive experience in the creative industries in a wide range of roles. He has worked on a number of of fine art and community projects, gaining hands-on experience of working with the general public as a workshop and gallery assistant and also taking on ...

Andy Pearce has over 30 years experience in the museum sector in the North West in roles ranging from Education Officer to Director. He has worked in a wide range of heritage organisations from small independents to large nationals, from charitable trusts to local authorities and has had responsibility for the care and display of many different types of collections ...

Gordon Chancellor moved to Stockport in February 2019 from the East of England, where he had been the Museum Development Officer (MDO) for Cambridgeshire since 2013. Gordon is now freelance and keen to work with museums in the North West. His museum career started as a geologist at the Oxford University Museum in the 1980s, before being appointed Curator of ...

The NWFed is pleased to announce the appointment of new Board member, Alex Walker, who is currently acting as the North West's representative of the Museums Association. Despite recently retiring from her position as Head of Arts and Heritage at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Alex is continuing to remain highly active within the sector across the North West and nationally. Alex recently become ...