Collections Q&A

Facilitators

• Sarah Sinka, Museum Development Officer
• Jo Low, Museum Development Officer
• Alex Gordon-Jones, Museum Development Officer 

What will be covered?

Join us for a NEW programme of informal monthly Collections Q&A sessions with your Museum Development South East collections team.

These informal sessions are an opportunity to ask that burning collections question, discuss with your peers, or just take some time out of your day to talk all things about museum collections.

We will be meeting each month online, you can join the other sessions by clicking the links below:

• 10 November 2025, 11am to 12pm
• 3 December 2025, 2pm to 3pm
• 12 February 2026, 11am to 12pm
• 9 March 2026, 11am to 12pm

Learning objectives

By the end of the session, attendees will:

• Know your MD Collections team a bit better!

• Get to know other collections volunteers/staff in the South East region

• Share questions with others, or listen and learn from the answers.

Who should attend?

Trustees, managers, beginners, volunteers.

Accessibility

To help us ensure you get the most out of the session, you will be asked to email us with any access requirements you may have when you complete your order form. Please see the list of examples of adjustments we can make. This list is not exhaustive and we would be happy to accommodate other requirements where possible, please email us to discuss.

Eligibility

MDSE is funded by Arts Council England (ACE) to support museums in the South East of England within ACE’s Accreditation scheme. The South East is defined as the local authority areas of:

• Bedfordshire (Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Borough)
• Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead and Wokingham)
• Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
• Hertfordshire
• Kent and Medway
• Norfolk
• Oxfordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• East Sussex and Brighton & Hove
• West Sussex

We prioritise places on our training programmes for museums which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation. ACE publishes the official lists of Accredited and Working Towards Accreditation museums on its website. Where possible we will make places available for museums which do not meet these criteria but the number of places will vary depending on the event format.

Terms & Conditions:

For full details of our programmes conditions, see our Terms and Conditions on our website

By booking a place on to a Museum Development South East training event, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

• That you are from a South East museum which is in Arts Council England’s Museum Accreditation Scheme. Where this is not applicable you acknowledge that MDSE will facilitate your attendance if availability permits and that you or your organisation will pay any fees which may apply.
• It is a condition of receiving this ACE funded training that the online evaluation sent to the email address provided at the point of booking is completed by the specified deadline. This deadline is in the email notification unless a paper evaluation is specifically requested and submitted on the day of the training session.
• By booking a place you agree that you will make every endeavour to attend the event and you will give us at least 24 hours’ notice if you need to cancel your booking. If you repeatedly cancel your booking without sufficient notice you agree that we may exercise our right to remove you from future event bookings.