I worked with the Fundraising team for three months over the summer. For most of that time we were working together on producing and delivering a door drop for the Royal Pavilion and Museums Foundation. This was done to raise awareness of the charity to residents of Brighton and Hove and has proved to have been a very successful way of increasing interest.
Other jobs that I worked on include developing the social networking sites that I mentioned before, which are both growing steadily, helping Li-an with processing new members applications and sending out their membership packs. For the most recent mail out to the members of the Foundation, I compiled a competition crossword for the newsletter!

I have been working with the Learning team for a month now and I’m very busy. I’ve been working closely with the organisers of the Christmas events and am taking on part of the organisation for the project, as well as looking into developing the African Masks school session, helping at early years sessions, preparing for Diwali and White Night events and generally integrating myself into the department.

Zak and I have been working on the technical certificate part of our apprenticeship coursework. This is a really interesting piece of work and a chance for us to do a bit more research into the sector that we work in. We have to write a couple of presentations to show our knowledge of the creative and cultural sector and how creative ideas are developed and put into place. I’ve been doing research into museums of natural history around the country and how they tailor themselves to appeal to children. I’m comparing what I find to what the Booth Museum offers. It’s very interesting to see what services other museums offer as a whole and to what extent they provide to younger audiences.

Cassie