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Christmas card by Rose Jollands, Volunteer, Letterpress Gallery, Industrial Museum

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Volunteering at Bradford Museums and Galleries

16 - 24 years old?

Kickstart work placement opportunities available.

Our current Kickstarters are keen to welcome you and tell you all about it.

Join us in January! Ask your job coach about these roles now.

Cohort 2 is now recruiting.

We congratulate our current Kickstarters who have gained employment following their time with us. From Museums and Galleries now moving into the world of work with Childrens Services, Estates and Property and Theatres.

Well done all. We are very proud to have been part of your emplyment journey.

Bolling Hall Library and Gardening Volunteers

Can you help on a Saturday and/or Sunday?

11am - 4pm

A unique and exciting opportunity has arisen to help deliver a new and improved library service from Bolling Hall Museum. If you love working with people and have a few hours to spare each week, why not become a volunteer at Bolling Hall Community Library? Bradford Libraries offer a wide range of services including, books, free use of computers and the internet, information, activities and events for people of all ages. As a volunteer at Bolling Hall you would join a brand new team working to deliver a library service that compliments and enriches the visitor experience at the museum. Contact: bmgvolunteers@bradford.gov.uk t: 01274 436027

Volunteer Library/Museum Gardeners

Manningham Library

Beginners welcome, as are those with fantastic experience
To work under the supervision of library/museum staff
To help maintain the grounds and gardens by tidying, weeding, pruning and planting in specific areas. Woodworking skills would be great but not essential.
To carry out these tasks according to agreed health and safety guidelines and Bradford Council Behaviours and volunteer code of conduct

We can offer you the opportunity to:

Meet new people and have fun
Learn new skills and to build on experience and skills you already have
Gain pride in making a valuable contribution to your local community
Help support the library and museum service in Bradford
Improve your personal wellbeing
Contact bmgvolunteers@bradford.gov.uk t: 01274 436027

Volunteer Weavers and Spinners - they're back!

Bradford Industrial Museum. They returned in style with the Christmas Crocus Volunteer Day on Sunday 5 December.

Over 300 visitors enjoyed meeting the volunteer Industrial Museum Gardeners and Printers. The volunteers in the Weaving, Spinning and Dyers Guild sold out in knitwear as did the Eccleshill Village Steering Group in homemade cakes!

The power of volunteering, handmade craft and community engagement in a heritage setting .... and there's still some hand printed Christmas cards to buy in the museum shop by the letterpress printing volunteers. Go and shop!

Merry Christmas from the volunteer Moorside Printers, Bradford Industrial Museum 🎅🎄

Pop in over the festive period and see the letterpress gallery in action.

FREE entry.

Family bag packing

Huge thanks to volunteers who packed hundreds off family packs at Cliffe Castle Museum ready for collecting over the Christmas period.

Come in and pick one up when you visit with your little ones. FREE. They are at all 4 of our museums.

Melissa Milne, Kickstart Family Activity Support Apprentice, has also created special weaving family bags for Bradford Industrial Museum. Collect your childs Christmas themed weaving kit when you visit the volunteers weaving on the looms in the museum (every Wednesday and Friday afternoons).

Find more Get Involved information on the website

What better way to end 2021 and celebrate all that HUGE volunteering support, than with a Christmas coffee morning at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Refreshment Room Cafe.

Thanks to Kickstart apprentice, Volunteer Administrator, Harry Dyson, for his demon of a quiz.

Congratulations to Kim Beaumont, volunteer audience researcher; Linda Bower, Friends of Bradford Art Galleries and Museums membership officer and Jay Targett, volunteer gardener and library volunteer - the winners of the Quiz 2021. Prizes courtesy of the art gallery shop.

And that's a wrap!

From Bradford Museums and Galleries, we wish you a healthy, happy and very relaxed festive season and new year.