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 ...

Join us for the NWFed Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024 between 9.30am-4pm on Thursday 17 October at The World of Glass in St Helens, Merseyside. This year’s conference theme is Advocating for and through museums and with a range of talks and presentations, we’ll be exploring questions like: How do we advocate for museums and galleries, and the important role they ...

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 ...

We're delighted to have re-opened our CPD Small Grants programme for individual members offering grants of up to £200. Our CPD Small Grants programme is now open for applications from individual members of the Fed, so we'd love you to apply. We have recently increased our grant amounts to up to £200 to help you access professional development opportunities, a ...

A hands on introduction to object handling and moving in museums. Open to NWFed individual members and staff from NWFed member museums only. PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT – LOOK OUT FOR MORE MUSEUMS BASICS EVENTS COMING SOON  Join us at Lancashire’s specialist Conservation Studios in Preston, on Tuesday 7th March 2023 from 10am - 1pm, with ...

NWFed Board Member Claire Sleightholm reviews the afternoon sessions at our sold out event at the People's History Museum #InConversation After lunch and networking, we heard from speakers from around the region who shared their own co-production experiences.  It was a packed programme with each speaker limited to ten minutes, such was the response to the call out for case ...

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 ...

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT - LOOK OUT FOR MORE MUSEUMS BASICS EVENTS COMING SOON We're delighted to bring back our first Museum Basics: An Introduction to Object Marking and Labelling training course since 2020, which takes place at World Museum, Liverpool, on Thursday 16th June 2022, 10.30am - 12.30pm. This hands-on session provides everything you need ...

NWFed trustee, Claire Sleightholm, reviews our recent In Conversation event on the Changing Role of Museum Front of House (more…) ...

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 ...

HRH The Prince of Wales is welcomed onboard Osprey by John Eaton, David Dunlop, Paul Pearson and Ian Shirra at Windermere Jetty. Photo Jan Chlebik After an extensive £20 million development project by Lakeland Arts, the Windermere Jetty Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories finally opened to the public earlier this year on the 23 March.  Following its public opening, ...