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With current budgets under pressure and the possibility of an economic slowdown, it is more important than ever for museums to demonstrate their value to their governing bodies.
This event was aimed at middle to senior managers from local authority and independant museums. The aim of the day was to provide an understanding of what advocacy is and why it is important.
Topics and contributors included:
Three years to change minds: the improvement agenda for local authorities and museums' place in it
Martyn Allison, National Advisor Culture & Sport, IDeA
and Paul Bristow, Senior Policy Advisor: Communities & Local Government, MLA
Councils as place shapers need to respond to community needs and aspirations. Are museum and archive services in tune with these agendas and playing their part? The presentation will describe the new landscape and the role culture and sport can play in it. It will also identify the opportunities and challenges ahead over the next three years.
To download Martyn's presentation click here: martyn allison talk
To download Paul's presentation click here: Paul Bristow talk
Museums, local authorities & charities
Adrian Babbidge, Managing Consultant, Egeria Heritage Consultancy
Many local authority services have common roots with those provided by charities. During recent years central government has acknowledged the potential for councils to develop partnerships with charities and the voluntary sector. PSA 21 and the arrangements for LAAs both reflect the priority being placed on this. Adrian will look at the types of successful and sustainable relationships that already exist in the museums sector, and will become increasingly significant in the future.
To download Adrian's presentation click here: Adrian Babbidge talk
20 sure-fire ways to lose friends in high places – the mistakes that museums regularly make
Jonathan Drori CBE, Director, Changing Media Ltd.
As a commissioner at the DCMS and as an adviser to Whitehall departments and NDPBs, Jonathan has watched public bodies make their cases with Government and other public and commercial sources of funding. Sometimes they do it adequately, or even brilliantly. Too often though, it’s a slow-motion car-crunch. In the spirit of learning from other people’s ghastly errors, Jon will reveal his personal top-twenty advocacy mistakes.
To download Jonathan's presentation click here: Jonathan Drori talk
Working within a political environment
Brian Hayton, Assistant Director Cultural Services, Bradford Metropolitan District Council
Brian's presentation will examine the significance of the political environment for museums; what drives it; how it is made up and how museums can work with it for the public benefit.
Talk not available
Museum ethics as an advocacy tool
Melanie Horton, Researcher and MA Ethics Committee Member
This session will encourage you to think about how we can use the Code of Ethics to seek stakeholder agreement from the very beginning of a course of action. It will highlight key ‘pressure points’ in the Code and give you the opportunity to share your ideas on the value of its use in this way.
To download Melanie's presentation click here Melanie Horton talk
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