Exeter Cultural Volunteer Management Toolkit Launch Reception

I am delighted to invite you and your colleagues to a launch reception at RAMM to introduce the Exeter Cultural Volunteering Management Toolkit on behalf of our project partners, Devon libraries and Exeter Cathedral. The Toolkit shares information that will help cultural organisations in the city and greater Exeter manage and engage volunteers in their activities.

Volunteers are an important part of life at RAMM (the Royal Albert Memorial Museum) and much of the guidance is based on our experience, developed over many years, but through this project refined for wider sector usage with our colleagues at the Libraries and Cathedral. The three partners hope that organisations of all sizes will find the toolkit useful in helping to get the best from their volunteers but also ensure that these committed and enthusiastic people have a great experience working with cultural organisations in the city.

Volunteering enables peoples’ deeper engagement with culture and organisations’ a tighter ‘fit’ with the communities they serve. The benefits are two way and by sharing our experience we can encourage others in the city to develop opportunities for cultural participation in all its forms.

As members of Exeter Cultural Partnership (ECP) all three project partners subscribe to ECP’s definition of culture as being ‘the things people do’ whether this is sports, heritage, learning or the arts. We hope therefore that the toolkit will be useful to a wide range of city organisations.

Camilla Hampshire
Museum Manager and Cultural Lead

The project has been support by public funding from Arts Council England