Posts by venue: Volunteering

Bob Renaut Blog No. 1 – Guest blog by South Shields Museum & Art Gallery Volunteers Jean and Wendy

Hello. Our names are Jean and Wendy, and we have been volunteering at South Shields Museum for about 18 months. We have been helping to catalogue some of the fascinating items in the Museum’s collection, and we’d like to share… Read more

Sooty and Sweep (1963)

Sooty and Sweep star in ‘We Dispense With Accuracy’ on BFI Mediatheque. For those of us of ‘a certain age’ Sooty and Sweep were stalwarts of our childhood, along with Andy Pandy and Captain Scarlett. This 10 minute gem from… Read more

A Life Changing Experience – John Nicholls

I wanted to give you a real insight into how volunteers feel about their experience, in particular with the Culture Track volunteer project that I have been coordinating for the last 2 years. John kindly has agreed to be interviewed… Read more

Joe’s blog no. 5

Before we ‘say Goodbye’ to Joe there is one more aspect of his life that I’d like to share with you. Throughout his adult life, Joe was an ardent fan of Gracie Fields and both collected and promoted all her… Read more

Joe’s Blog

During the recent weeks of heavy snow we were reminded by the media of previous severe seasons such as the winter of 1947.  A comparison that isn’t altogether fair when we remember that, although the war was over, rationing and… Read more