BLOCKLEY
DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETY
Founded 1985		  

HERITAGE VOLUNTEERS

NADFAS Heritage Volunteers help to conserve our heritage both in Britain and in parts of Europe. Conservation and preservation of our heritage are tremendous burdens on the limited resources of museums, National Trust properties, historic houses, libraries and gardens. Volunteers help them in non-specialist but vital ways by caring for collections, recording documents, guiding and stewarding. Heritage Volunteers help to keep them accessible for all. An on-going programme of training is organised at national and local levels. Workshops are arranged with invited experts lecturing on specialised subjects.

In recent years, the Blockley Heritage Volunteers have completed the conservation of a collection of books, which form part of a permanent exhibition of artefacts relating to the Arts and Crafts Movement at the Court Barn Museum in Chipping Campden, which opened in July 2007,and we have renovated the Altar frontal at Blockley Church. Currently members are helping with other projects.

Court Barn Museum in Chipping Campden;
Gordon Russell Museum in Broadway; cataloguing their papers;
Blockley Museum; cataloguing their papers and cleaning artefacts.
Broughton Castle. Repairing embroideries and costumes;

During the 2011- 2012 season, we hope to start work on the Hart Museum Archive in Chipping Camden.

Volunteers undertake conservation of any object of artistic or historic merit: textiles, books, paper, metals, also cataloguing of documents and gardens. Previous experience is not necessary as training is available for each task. Anyone interested should contact me and perhaps visit our work to see whether they would be interested in joining us. Everyone is most welcome.

Mary Quinlan
3 Adderbury Park, West Adderbury
OXON. OX17 3EN
Tel. 01295 810645

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