The Arts Society Heritage Volunteers help to conserve and preserve our heritage in vital but non-specialist ways, by caring for collections, recording documents, guiding and stewarding, in museums, libraries, historic houses and gardens.
They receive support and training from the professional staff at these institutions.
Currently, a group of volunteers has been working at the Royal Green Jackets (The Rifles) Museum in Winchester, cleaning and identifying pieces of Regimental silver, establishing hallmarks and, where possible, the significant history of each item, in an effort to contribute to the quality of catalogue information. This has been very satisfying work and has included cataloguing some very special pieces such as a superb table centrepiece made by the silversmith Benjamin Smith 1847.
More information will be on the Volunteering notice board at lectures.