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  Making the Most of your Collection, the Museums Seminar, which we held in Cambridge at Trinity Hall College, in conjunction with Bonhams and Ecclesiastical Insurance, gave museum professionals from both the independent and government sector the opportunity to hear about the experiences of other curators. In addition Arts Council England gave their perspective on Accreditation, De-accessioning and...

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Speakers – Making the Most of Your Collection Museum of London Curator, Hazel Forsyth, is just one of a number of key speakers at our Museums Seminar in Cambridge which comes up on 2 October. You can see a short video about the Museums of London’s ground-breaking exhibition, the Cheapside Hoard, and learn more about...

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Robust Indemnity An Essential Requirement For Trustees The Museums Association have reported that government funding cuts are leading to more local government museums opting for trust status. Geraldine Kendall, writing in the May edition of the Museum’s Journal says ‘Trust status has come to represent a lifeline for struggling museums…’, she argues that there are...

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Will McPhail was the deserving winner of the Cartoon Trusts’ Under 30 Cartoonist of the Year Award 2013. An established wildlife artist, who lives in Lancashire, Will has also managed to carve out a very successful career as a satirical cartoonist, using his sense of humour and draftsmanship to great effect with several successful commissions...

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Private Sector Services can help Control Expenditure and Protect against Risk The Collections Trust reports that the approach of the 2015 Government Election is likely to see further reductions in culture budgets, in spite of the fact that our museums, galleries and cultural centres provide one of the greatest draws to foreign visitors and a central...

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2013 Castleacre GWCT East Anglian Grey Partridge Award is Scooped by Robert Law’s Conservation Grade Farm in Royston Robert Law, who has made his name with a number of wildlife conservation projects at Thrift Farm, in Royston, has now landed another trophy, this time the Castleacre GWCT Grey Partridge Award. He joins a number of...

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Lawrence  Lamborn (Loz) is a freelance cartoonist and doodler who divides his time between his family home in Brittany, France, and the city of Cambridge. In 2012 he won the Cartoon Trust’s Under 30 Cartoonist of the Year Award, sponsored by Castleacre Insurance and we commissioned him to come up with an exciting insurance cartoon – not always...

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The furore which has erupted today over Joan Edward’s £520,000 donation to the government may well put her executors in the firing line. Her legacy was shared between the Conservative and Liberal parties, as the acting coalition government of the day, but the Labour party have reviewed the contents of the will and now argue that the...

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