Newark & Sherwood District Council

Do you have time to spare and skills to share? Would you relish the chance to be involved in a very exciting venture?

If you are enthusiastic about our heritage, eager to protect the district’s collection of objects and archives, brimming with ideas, or want to utilise your practical skills, then please join us ...become a Friend of Newark and Sherwood Museums.

Our friends are helping us to raise money for the museum’s move to the Old Magnus Buildings on Appletongate.

We need your help please, if you are prepared to be hands on with fund raising or just want to donate and be a sleeping partner, every penny counts.

For more details of how you can join us to help visit www.civilwarnewark.co.uk  T: 01636 677 716 or email: friends@civilwarnewark.co.uk

The friends work as a separately constituted body operating with its own committee independently of, but in co-operation with, the museum service, supporting the Heritage Lottery Fund project through an advocacy role and through fundraising. In the words of its constitution, the new friends exist ‘to educate, promote, support, assist and improve Newark and Sherwood Museum Service’.

Membership of friends is open to individuals, families, young people, institutions and corporate bodies.

Levels of membership were approved at the AGM and are as follows:

• Full/individual £10

• Joint £16

• Family £20

• Concessions £6

• Young People £6

• Institutional £24

• Corporate £32

The benefits of membership are:

• Regular Friends newsletters

• Friends only events

• A free tea/coffee with any gift shop purchase at Newark Millgate Museum

• A free ACTIVE card which gives discounts on museum activities, as well as discounts on local leisure services.

Your support is vital in helping Newark and Sherwood Museum Service to thrive.

Our Friends and Volunteers help us achieve many different goals through their commitment, knowledge and enthusiasm.

Thanks to the efforts of our volunteers, over 10,000 photographs have been digitally recorded for the benefit of researchers and the public at large.

The volunteers also assist with preparation of materials for Learning and Outreach projects, children’s workshops and researching objects for storage and exhibitions.

Students from the University of Lincoln conservation course have undertaken projects such as object packing and unpacking, conservation and condition assessments, environmental and pest management.

Watch this space for future volunteering opportunities.