Here you can find recommended resources that support requirement 1.3 of the UK Museum Accreditation Scheme: A satisfactory structure for your governance and management.
‘That involves showing us:
- an organisation chart that shows us all the people that work at the museum, including volunteers and paid staff, covering the front of house through to the governing body, and the relationships between them. If a separate organisation runs the museum, we need to see any approved agreements between that organisation and the governing body
- who has the authority and responsibility to approve decisions. This might include decisions you delegate to sub-committees, staff or volunteers
- clear agreements with your staff and volunteers setting out their roles and responsibilities
- evidence that your governing body has access to museum professional advice’
(Accreditation standard, November 2018)
This resource, from Voscur, identifies the areas of knowledge or skill that need to be developed in an organisation, or that should be specified when targeting recruitment of new members to the management committee.
This handbook has been developed in response to the Mendoza Review. It can help you identify the key ways in which councillors can support museums to be most effective.
This resource is geared towards supporting volunteering in arts organisations in Scotland. Many of the suggestions, checklists and case studies will be relevant to museums and to the Accreditation Standard.
The Collections Management Competency Framework defines the collections management skills and behaviours which a museum needs to develop, manage and sustain collections so that they can be used by the public.
Arts Council England has produced this resource to directly support museums to meet the Accreditation Standard. It is applicable to all independent museums across the UK and provides information and advice about the Museum Mentor scheme.
This publication provides guidance, information and a template agreement for museums and museum mentors.
This resource describes a volunteering development project at Wakefield Museums. Wakefield Museums were undergoing a period of huge change with museums relocating and redeveloping, during which their work with volunteers was put on hold. In 2013, Museums Development Yorkshire offered support to develop a new volunteering programme.
This case study captures Hornsea Museum’s project to consider the volunteer workforce. Hornsea Museum is a volunteer led museum based in Hornsea, East Yorkshire.
This resource provides a range of resources, guidance and good practice templates exploring recruiting, supporting and retaining volunteers.
These information sheets cover a wide variety of topics relevant to working with volunteers, from developing a volunteer strategy, writing a volunteer policy, to information on recruitment, expenses, safety, legal matters and how to attract and involve different target groups effectively.
This resource is geared towards supporting volunteering in arts organisations in England. Many of the suggestions, checklists and case studies will be relevant to museums and to the Accreditation Standard.
These publications provide relevant information for organisations across the UK, offering a wide range of information to support organisations and individuals who are responsible for managing and organising volunteer effort.
This resource provides information to support effective volunteer development, policies and procedures from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).
This case study from Museum Development Yorkshire explains how the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum developed a clear plan to improve operational management and the retention of critical information when trustees retire.
This resource provides a checklist for museums developing management agreements.
This framework from the Museums, Archives and Libraries Division (MALD) of the Welsh Government provides a succession planning framework for the analysis of a museum’s current situation and a template to guide museums in planning for the future.
This guidance from The Charity Commission relates directly to the Accreditation Standard for those museums which are charities. It outlines what is involved in being a trustee.