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  • Volunteers needed for Halloween Nights 2018

    We are approaching the Museum’s Halloween evenings and are appealing for volunteers to help make it a great success!

    Volunteers are needed within the trick or treat buildings.

    Staff who are willing and able to offer some time over the evenings of Friday 26, Saturday 27, Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 October  are asked to complete the volunteer sign up form by 19 October. All help will be greatly appreciated!

    Any questions? Please contact a member of the HR team or Tessa Lovell (Visitor Engagement) [email protected]

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  • Voice actors needed!

    Voice actors needed!

    Ever wondered what it would be like to hear yourself on the radio?

    We’re currently looking for voice actors to feature in various radio ads in the upcoming months, as well as to record snippets of conversation that will appear across various sound points within the Museum over Christmas.

    This will be paid work that we’ll try to fit in with your current working schedule. You may also be required to undertake paid travel to Birmingham City Centre to record in a studio, depending on the opportunity.

    All are welcome to register their interest, a Black Country accent is of course welcome but by no means necessary.

    How to register your interest

    To register your interest as a voice actor, simply drop an email to [email protected] or talk to your line manager.

    A  member of the marketing team will then arrange to meet with you to record some sample scripts for your audition piece. This will be at a time that’s suitable, most likely before or after you start your shift.

  • 2019 Opening Times Published

    2019 Opening Times Published

    Opening dates and times have now been set for 2019.

    These are listed below along with a reminder about the rest of this year’s opening dates and times.

    A copy can also be found in the useful information folder within the Documents tab above.

     

    2018 Opening Times – Autumn & Winter

    Dates Times
    Now until Sun 4 Nov Daily, 10am – 5pm
    Mon 5 Nov – Sun 23 Dec Wed-Sun, 10am – 4pm
    Mon 24 Dec Daily, 10am – 4pm
    Tue 25 & Wed 26 Dec Closed
    Thu 27 Dec – Sun 6 Jan 2019 Daily, 10am – 4pm
    Mon 7 Jan – Tue 22 Jan 2019 Closed

     

    2019 Opening Times

    Dates Times
    Wed 23 Jan 2019 – Sun 31 Mar Wed – Sun, 10am – 4pm
    Sat 16 – Sun 24 Feb Daily, 10am – 4pm
    Mon 1 Apr – Sun 3 Nov Daily, 10am – 5pm
    Mon 4 Nov – Sun 22 Dec Wed-Sun, 10am – 4pm
    Mon 23 & Tue 24 Dec Daily, 10am  – 4pm
    Wed 25 Dec & Thu 26 Dec Closed

  • Get ready for Planday

    As you are aware When to Work will soon stop functioning, ceasing all operations in Europe on the 1st of October.
    Staff responsible for rotas have been working hard getting everything set up in Planday. We’re now ready to roll it out to everybody and help you get setup on the new system.

    Instructions on how to access and use the new system will be placed around site, on staff notice boards and at the bottom of this page.

    Andy will be in the guide hut Monday to Thursday next week (24th-27th September) from 5pm to answer your questions and help get you setup.

    Here’s some quick pointers:

    • You will receive an email from Planday, please follow the instructions and get yourself setup. Do not ignore or delete this email.
    • You can access from any computer by visiting bclm.planday.com  
    • There is a Planday app available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
    • From the 24th to 28th of September When to Work and Planday will run side by side and rotas on both systems will match.
    • When to Work will stop operating on the 1st of October.

     

    If you have any questions about the new system please direct them to your line manager or ask Andy in the guide hut next week.

     

    Click here to view the latest Planday staff user guide

  • BCLM: Forging Ahead – Woodside Library Call Out

    We’ll be launching our public call-out for memories of Woodside Library – one of the largest translocation projects within BCLM: Forging Ahead – on Wednesday 19 September. Do you have any personal stories or a family connection with the Library? Did you borrow there, study there, or dance there? If you do have anything you would like to share to help our interpretation of the library, please pop in and see the Collections team in the Rolfe Street offices.

     

    A bit about Woodside Library

    The library was opened in 1894 to serve the south west part of Dudley. The land for the library and Woodside Park were donated by the Earl of Dudley, who also offered help with the funds to build the library out of the takings from his fetes at Dudley Castle. As such the library, and the adjacent police-houses and fire station, were constructed with a covenant limiting it to public use only. The opening ceremony for this, and Netherton library, built at the same time, was on 24th July 1894. The Earl and Countess of Dudley, along with many local dignitaries, processed from Dudley Central Library, to Netherton, to Woodside. The building featured a Reading Room and Lending Library on the ground floor, and a Recreation Room and Retiring Room upstairs, and was intended for the benefit of the working people of the Woodside area. At the beginning, the library was “closed stack” – visitors had to request books from the librarian – but converted to open access in 1934.

    After World War Two, libraries began to modernise and Dudley libraries were at the forefront – they increased their book stocks by 15,000 a year, included paperbacks for the first time and gramophone records, mostly classical music and language learning tools. The upstairs rooms were used for a variety of clubs and societies, and dances hosted by local compere Horace Robinson. The building was refurbished in the early 1970s and operated until 2008.

    Why Woodside Library?

    The building is currently in very poor condition and because of the covenant, has proved very difficult to repurpose. We are therefore proud to be able to salvage this beautiful building and give it a new lease of life. Woodside Library also enables us to continue stories of education and children’s lives, social life and the role of local authorities in everyday life in the Black Country. It will complement some of the other buildings by showing civic life in the post-war period, and provide an architecturally impressive sight in the midst of the new development.

  • Museum vans booking

    As with the staff pool car we now have a calendar for each of the museums two vans, the small Peugeot and the large Citroen. Both can be used by any member of staff with a current driving licence going off site to collect items on museums business. Bookings will be managed by Ray though the dedicated shared calendars (details on how to do this are listed below).

    You will be responsible for the vehicle whilst it is in your position and we will be introducing a ‘use log’ similar to the one in the pool car in the coming weeks which are to be kept in the vehicles. This information will help us to understand how often the vans are being used, for what purpose and by which department.

    How to open and use the small or large van calendar

    • Open outlook and click the ‘calendar’ tab.
    • On the ‘home’ tab click ‘open calendar’ and then ‘open shared calendar’ from the list.
    • Type ‘Van – Peugeot (small) or Van – Citroen (large)’ and click ‘OK’ (the small or large van calendar should now open and appear on your list of shared calendars).

    How to book the van

    • Open the small or large van calendar and find the day you wish to book (you will see if it is available).
    • Click the time you want to start and pick ‘new meeting’ from the home tab and click ‘new meeting with all’ from the drop down list.
    • Complete the appointment request with your name as the subject. NOTE: make sure ‘Van – Peugeot (small) or Van – Citroen (large)’ is the only entry in the ‘to’ box (otherwise it will send invites to all of the calendars you have open at the time) and then send.
    • The request will appear as Tentative until Ray approves your request.

    Or

    • Open the calendar and find the day you wish to book (you will see if it is available).
    • select the time on your own calendar, right click and select ‘new appointment’
    • Complete the appointment request with your name as the subject, click ‘invite attendees’ from the appointment tab and enter ‘Van – Peugeot (small) or Van – Citroen (large)’ in the ‘to’ box and then send.
    • The request will appear as Tentative until Ray approves your request.

    PLEASE NOTE: both vans are to be returned empty of materials at the agreed return time as someone could have it booked out directly after you.

    Please contact David Pitt with any questions.

  • Summer Holiday – Results

    Summer Holiday – Results

    I don’t need to tell you how important the summer holiday period is for us if we are to achieve the financial results we set ourselves, but I’m delighted to tell you that this summer was our best on record for the number of visitors welcomed.

    Between Saturday 21 July and Sunday 2 September, we welcomed 73,036, compared to 68,335 for the same period last year; that’s growth of over 6%.

    Year-to-date it means we’re nearly 7% ahead of both 2017 and our forecast as we head towards the Autumn/Winter events programme.

    Visitors of all ages seemed to get in the spirit of the Historic Holiday Fun activities and it was great to see the late-night Fridays growing in popularity in this, their second year.

    I particularly enjoyed the further trials of the first person performances and I’ll be interested to see the results of the visitor evaluation we’ve been doing around these and the Friday evening Black Country Touring performances.

    Such success is, as ever, down to a huge team effort, whatever your role, and I want to thank everyone for their commitment to the Visitor Promise, even during such a busy (and at times, very hot) six week period.

    Thank you

    Andrew

  • Filming Assistants wanted

    We’re looking to increase our pool of Casual Filming Assistants. The positions will cover periods of filming at the Museum on a ad hoc basis.

    If you are interested in applying for one of these positions, please submit a cover letter detailing why you would like to be a Filming Assistant and why you are right for this role.

    The full job description can be found on the Vacancies page of the intranet.

    Cover letters should be submitted to HR by hand or by emailing [email protected] by the closing date of Fri 7 September at 5pm. 

    Interviews will take place the 2nd or 3rd week of September

  • Staff Winter Events Tickets On Sale 3 Sep

    Tickets for our Winter events go on sale to the general public at 10am on Monday 3 September.

    As usual, from this date 50 staff tickets will be available for each of the Christmas evening events until two weeks before the date of the event (Santa Hunts excluded).

    Staff will receive 50% discount off the price of each evening event ticket.

    Each member of staff may purchase up to 4 tickets (of any combination) per event at the discounted rate and may purchase a maximum of 10 additional tickets at the
    standard rate.

    Please refer to the ‘Staff Tickets for Events Policy’ in the documents tab of the intranet for more information about when and how to purchase staff event tickets.

  • Change in staff rostering system

    As a result of the implementation of GDPR legislation the owners of WhentoWork, the Museum’s staff rostering system, have decided to withdraw WhentoWork from the European market. This means we will not be able to use it after 30 September 2018.

    Since we were informed of the withdrawal of WhentoWork we have been working hard to find a suitable replacement which meets our needs. After trialling a number of products, the preferred system of the user group was a product called Planday and this is the system that will be implemented.

    The staffing rosters for September and October will be generated on both WhentoWork and Planday. They will be accessible on WhentoWork up to 30 September. Staff will be given access to Planday during September and pop-in training sessions will be put on for staff during week commencing 24 September.  Planday is accessible both via the web and a downloadable application for mobile phones. More information will be provided to staff through team managers over the next few weeks.