Melissa Linsey

We're recruiting for trustees with the following skills:
- staff and volunteer welfare
- operations and safety
- IT support
If this is you and you are looking for a great team of fellow volunteers then check out the role descriptions at:
dacorumheritage.org.uk/support/volu...

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And it’s official

Are you Dacorum Heritage’s new museum assistant?

There’s just one more week left to apply.

Please follow the link for full details

dacorumheritage.org.uk/news/are-you...

I got asked a few months ago how a certain church could become more inclusive. I mentioned text font, size & background on slides, sound issues, neurodiversity, choice of words & phrases … they still don’t get it

Are you Dacorum Heritage's new Museum Assistant?
2 days (15 hours) per week
£25,000 pro rata
Check out the website for more information on the role and how to apply. dacorumheritage.org.uk/.../are-you-...
Deadline for applications: Friday 28th March 2025

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My dad’s been telling me about his great aunt Ella tonight - showed me the documentation that proved Ella was short for Cinderella. Apparently her Prince Charming was a bank manager.

Loving this, seeing @sachacoward.bsky.social represented at Guildford Library and hearing about how much the team loved having him at the library recently

If Rachel Reeves wants growth, improved community cohesion could be essential | Heather Stewart A new paper has found that social capital ‘is the cake, not the icing’ of a strong, well functioning economy

Social capital ‘is the cake, not the icing’ of a strong, well functioning economy. “It’s the things that make places, really: those parks, those youth clubs, those sports facilities, those #libraries and museums." #LibrariesChangeLives
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I mean how can you say no to this face? NewYear well-being with a weekend of borrowing some of the family dogs

That unexpected pleasure when the coffee & pee stop turns out to also be a brush museum. 😀 The Brush and Broom on the A303 is gorgeous though I’m having to resist buying the beautiful goat hair round brush - can you ever have enough conservation brushes 🤔?

Wishing you and yours a happy & healthy 2025 as well

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2024 was … well … it happened. Wishing an amazing, joyous and fabulous 2025 to all of us.

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There are many people that I need to thank for their support, understanding & patience this year. You know who you are - plus a special thank you to NHS Talking Therapy, Richmond Fellowship/Waythrough & Women’s Aid.

So the virus I picked up last month that wasn’t Covid … turns out it actually was 🤣 almost 5 years and it’s the 1st time that I’ve knowingly had Covid

YouTube video by Dacorum Heritage Trust Ovaltine in Dacorum

We are so excited to present this short animation, made by Chocolate Films about the old Ovaltine factory in Kings Langley.

youtu.be/0njXa2BMxoM?...

The film is part of Dacorum Heritage’s ‘Ovaltine in Dacorum’ Project, funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social & Garfield Weston Foundation

black and white illustration of a man in hat and coat posting a letter with a street scene in front of him. The c. 1940s bus has an advertisement for Ovaltine on the side.

Auditing the collection takes a long time ... especially when we have a drawers and boxes full of artwork and advertising to go through that capture our imagination.

This photo does not do justice to the detail, creativity and skill that the Ovaltine artists of Kings Langley poured into their work.

So with a new role as Museum Manager of Dacorum Heritage, I’ve made the first official post on this platform for the museum today.

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It’s world compassion day - it’s easy for us to be compassionate to others. It’s harder to be compassionate to ourselves. Remember that you deserve kindness too.

If you’re writing a mission statement or funding application then yes. Education/learning is inherent in everything that we do, however the main point of a museum is whatever the people inside it views it as - inc a free place to keep warm, somewhere to go for a coffee & look at your favourite art..

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Hello! I guess it’s time to find my fellow ex-twitter peeps and discover new museums, archives, libraries and museum educators to say hello to.