Category: Roving Museum
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Focus Groups
Our Focus Group will work with us to provide lived experience recordings about the cotton mills in Tameside. We have identified five local community groups who we will work with (listed below), and the first stage will be a series of “Space for Reflection” events that will help us identify and respond to individual requirements.…
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Educational resources
A key deliverable for Roving Museum’s “The British Cotton Industry:Joining the People’s Dots” is to deliver education resources aimed at Key Stage 2 (primary) and Key Stage 3 (secondary) children. Work on this has started with a draft for a first resource created, authored by our Chair, Agnes Fough (it’s the story of a young…
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GLAM partner confirmed
As noted in our previous post, we hope to make an application to the National Archives for a grant, and their criteria require that a community group should partner with a GLAM organisation. Roving Museum Chair Agnes Fough has had a long working relationship with Ashton’s Portland Basin Museum. In 2022, the museum approached Agnes…
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All about GLAM
One of the key activities we are carrying out is to identify potential sources for funding. We hope to make an application to the National Archives for a grant, and their criteria require that a community group should partner with a GLAM organisation. GLAM is an acronym for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, and it…
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Expert advice
One of the Roving Museum’s principles is that we should actively seek the advice of experts in the field of museums and education. To this end our Chair, Agnes Fough, regularly meets with key individuals. Some examples include:
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Focus Group leaders meeting
The Roving Museum Focus Group leaders met on 13 July for its inaugural meeting. The meeting was led by Roving Museum’s founder and Chair Agnes Fough. Other members of the group are Trustees Barbara Austin and Patricia Mugeke, and Stakeholder Eguavon Osifo. Topics discussed were:
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Inaugural meeting of the Steering Group
The Roving Museum Steering Group met on 23 June for its inaugural meeting. The meeting was led by Roving Museum’s founder and Chair Agnes Fough and covered a variety of topics including: Steering Group members were very engaged, welcoming the aims of the project and indicating their commitment to it.
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Steering Group
The Roving Museum will engage the expertise of a number people from the education and museum sectors. To do this, we have set up a Steering Group comprising The Inaugural Meeting will be held in June before the end of the school year.
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Some more news
So, where have we got to so far? We have completed the quite long process of registering as a charity – you can check out our constitution on the Charity page, and we are setting up this website. We have also identified a number of experts to take part in our stakeholders panel – this…
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Our first post
Welcome to Roving Museum! We will publish ongoing news of what we’re up to on this page, so please check back with us from time to time – we really appreciate your interest. At present we are still in the early stages of setting up the charity and launching our first project “The British Cotton…