8 Family Friendly courses

Wednesday 29 October, 10.30-11.30am  In partnership with Museum Galleries Scotland  Join us for an informal virtual briefing and Q&A session to help you think about low and no cost changes you could make to enhance your museum’s family provision using the Kids in Museums Manifesto.  The Kids in Museums Manifesto is a set of simple guidelines for museums, heritage sites and cultural organisations, which we update every two years. Between October and December 2024, we consulted hundreds of children, young people and families about what makes a heritage site a great place to visit. In this session, we will introduce the new version of the Manifesto, along with low and no cost changes you could make to improve your museum for a family audience.   You can hear a case study from the Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage about the changes they have been making to their family offer. You can also find out about the Kids in Museums Manifesto Self-Assessment Tool, which can support you to do a light touch self-audit of how well your museum or heritage site meets the Kids in Museums Manifesto. The Kids in Museums Manifesto Self-Assessment Tool is particularly aimed those with limited budgets.  Please bring along your own cuppa and snacks!  Take a look at the full schedule.  This training webinar is for staff and volunteers from Scottish museums only. This event will be delivered virtually over one hour.  

Fancy some Halloween create fun! Come and make your own little witches hat & cauldron 🧙🏻‍♀️ perfect for creating a few spells 🪄 This is a family friendly workshop, open to all ages. Everyone wanting to make will need to book a ticket and under 16s need to be accompanied by an adult. A perfect workshop for beginners or experienced potters to relax and have some fun. You’ll be guided through the steps to create your hat & cauldron, with time to add some colour to personally finish off your pieces. They’ll be left at the studio to be fired & ready to collect in time for Halloween 👻

join us for a fun family friendly pottery session to create you own little Bat Tealight holder or perfect for a few of those little treats! 🍬🎃🍬 This workshop is open to all ages, a ticket must be booked for each person wanting to make a bat. All under 16s must be booked with an accompanying adult. The workshop is suitable for complete beginners and more experienced potters want to create their own Halloween memories. You’ll create your bat body, add his wings and a cute or scary face, plus some colour to your little guy 🦇 the work will be fired and ready to collect in time for Halloween 🎃

Wednesday 19 November, 10am-12.30pm    Do you want to consult with children and families to improve your provision, but aren’t sure how to do this in a meaningful way?    Consulting with children and families means you’ll be better informed when planning or making decisions about provision for these groups. Through meaningful collaboration, your museum can avoid making assumptions and create activities, programmes and projects that are more connected to your child and family audiences.    This training webinar will be led by Sarah Shaw, former National Family Interpretation Manager for English Heritage. Her work included collaboratively designing family friendly experiences with families at the UNESCO World Heritage Site Birdoswald Roman Fort, which won the Best Family Day Out UK Heritage Award in 2020.     Sarah will be joined by Gemma Clark, Family Learning Officer, at the Garden Museum and Denise Greany, Learning and Participation Manager, National Civil War Centre, Newark, who will talk about their consultation work with children and families.    The session will help delegates to:  gain inspiration from case studies to take your own work forward, develop fun and inclusive activities to help you successfully consult with children and families, explore how to recruit children and families to undertake consultation, think about how to analyse and disseminate data after the consultation has taken place.   This training event will be delivered virtually on Zoom over one half-day session (two hours and 30 minutes with a short break).    Take a look at the full schedule.    Who should attend?  This training is aimed at staff who work in museums, art galleries and heritage sites who are interested in exploring ways to meaningfully consult with children and families.   

This recording package is for individuals who did not attend the Rethinking Museums live event. If you attended online on 5 February and would like to upgrade your ticket to include a recording, please click here. Since the end of the pandemic, children, young people and families have faced a barrage of challenges to their standard of living, wellbeing, family life and place within society. Our conference will focus on how museums can become welcoming and accessible spaces that enable all children, young people and families to socialise, relax, play, work and learn. The three key themes of the conference are: Family Against the background of a slow post-Covid recovery and ingrained inequalities of access amongst museum audiences, we will share examples of museum programmes that have successfully welcomed children, young people and families who have historically been excluded. Often these new audiences have found a sense of safety and belonging in their local museums and become less isolated. Society In an increasingly polarised world where online disinformation proliferates, museums have a vital role in enabling people to build empathy and explore social justice issues. Work in this space helps museums remain relevant to younger audiences and helps them feel more optimistic about the future. Careers As the number of museum traineeships and apprenticeships are shrinking, so are the routes into a career in heritage. We’ll explore programmes that are opening up the museum workforce and enabling a wider group of young people to find meaningful work and build skills and confidence for future employment. You can read all about the conference and see the schedule on our website. About the recording The recording will include all of the conference sessions. You will receive the recordings approximately six weeks after the conference. You will be able to watch the recordings for six months from the date of the conference. All of the sessions will be captioned.

Fitness, Energy And Vitality. Great all round exercise, Improves mental and physical health. Helps maintain concentration. Develops Confidence. Suitable for all ages and abilities. Family Friendly . all our instructors are DBS checked. Starting age 7 yrs and above. No upper age limit. Call us today.

A survival adventure for all the family......imagine you are stranded in the wild...what survival skills would you require? Get the kids out in the woods experiencing nature up close.... Learning valuable survival and bushcraft skills Find out what the natural environment provides to help keep us safeBuild a waterproof shelter from natural materials Build and light a roaring fire to keep warmFind natural tinders and learn how to use a fire-steel Cook your delicious Survival food on the camp fireLead by an experienced instructor who will encourage and inspire your budding young bushcrafters Great Outdoor Activities your children will really enjoy What's included in the price? Free parkingIn person instructionAll equipmentFun and laughter Cancellation policy Medium - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 4 weeks before the course starts