Surrey, East and West Sussex

The Museum Development Service for Surrey, East and West Sussex (SEWS) is staffed by Chris Drake and Helen Derbyshire.

The team share the responsibility for delivering to the sub-region's museums those services that form part of the wider Renaissance Museum Development Fund objectives. The services include:

Advice and support on Accreditation, professional issues concerned with standards, general fundraising and providing the link for museums to access the South East Skills Bank Directories on Preventive Conservation and Strategic Marketing
Newsletters, three issues a year. Download the Winter Spring 2009 newsletter (PDF, 482KB). This file is in Adobe PDF fromat and you will need Adobe Acrobat to view it.
The Small Grants Programme, a funding stream that offers Accredited and Registered Museums access to grants of up to £3,000 for project work in one or more of five priority areas. See Museum Development Grants for more information.
FREE training opportunities. Chris Drake manages this element of the service, so please contact him or see Training for more information.
Learning, access audits and access grants.

Networks

Helen and Chris support a number of networks across the sub-region

West Sussex Museums Council (WSMC) - the county lead body on museum issues. Membership is open to any organisation that has collections that are open to the public. The Executive Committee comprises elected and officer representation from most of the county's local authorities, together with local authority and independent museum professionals and museum workers from the voluntary museums sector. Contact Chris Drake for more information.
East Sussex Museums Council (ESMC) - contact Helen Derbyshire, Secretary
The Surrey, East and West Sussex Museum Development Service is a member of the Sussex Museums Group and the Surrey Museums Group
Sussex Learn-On Forum - a specialist access and learning forum for museum edcuators, teachers, library and archive staff, Arts, Youth and Social Services and other staff with a broad interest in education and access issues.

For information about the Surrey MuSE learning network, the Surrey Museums Consultative Committee and to receive support for making major funding applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund please contact Lalage Grundy at Surrey Heritage. Tel: +44 (0)1483 518782. Email: lalage.grundy@surreycc.gov.uk

For the Surrey Museums Consultative Committee contact Haidee Thomas. Tel: +44 (0)1483 518052. Email: haidee.thomas@surreycc.gov.uk

For the Surrey Museums Group contact the Chairman, Emma Warren at Chertsey Museum. Tel: +44 (0)1932 575370. Email: emma.warren@runnymede.gov.uk