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  • Preparing And Cooking Food – Staff Notice

    Preparing And Cooking Food – Staff Notice

    All staff and volunteers must only use designated break areas and equipment provided by the Museum, to prepare or cook food for consumption by themselves or their colleagues.

    Please note, all members of staff are instructed not to bring in their own cooking equipment into any of the staff kitchens, rest areas or anywhere else within the museum’s grounds.

    Food prepared or cooked for consumption by members of the public must be prepared in a designated catering kitchen by trained staff from the Enterprise team. Any change to this needs to be requested via your line manager who will liaise with Janet Brennan in the first instance to assess the safety and suitability of the request. A decision will then be made as to whether the cooking can go ahead with the correct safety measures in place, or whether the request will be declined and other options considered.

    If you have any concerns or questions, please contact your Line Manager.

    Thank you.

  • Change to staff car park – from Tue 20 Sep

    From Tuesday 20 September onwards, the team who are working on Rolfe Street will be putting up their hoardings.

    They will be taking over the “staff area” of the car park. Therefore, please park on the other side of the car park near the fence, closest to the main road. Please see picture below for reference.

    If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your Line Manager.

     

  • Beat the heat!

    Beat the heat!

    Beat the heat this week!

    As we move into Summer, and with a forecast for high temperatures this week (temperatures are due to hit highs of 28 degrees this Friday), all staff are reminded to:

    • Dress appropriately for the weather and avoid heavy or tight fitting clothing,
    • Utilise shade from buildings, awnings or umbrellas wherever possible and especially between 11am and 3pm,
    • Use at least factor 30 sunscreen with a 4-star UVA rating if you are working outside and reapply during the day,
    • Drink plenty of water to keep yourself hydrated: water bottles can be refilled from any cold tap in kitchens/staff areas,
    • Open windows and doors (but not fire doors) to help create a breeze.

    In very hot weather Team Managers will bring round water bottles and sunscreen to their team as needed.

    If you have any questions, please get in touch with your Line Manager.

    Stay safe all.

  • Staff Tickets – Peaky Blinders Nights 2022

    Staff tickets for this year’s Peaky Blinders nights will be available to purchase from the Sales and Ticketing office in Canalside from 10 am, Friday 10 June.

    Please note that staff may purchase up to 4 tickets at a discounted rate.

  • Jubilee Programme and National News Appearance

    This year’s May half term, inspired by the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, is celebrating all things royal with a look back at historic Jubilees and Coronations! Visitors have been invited to don their best red, white and blue outfits to help us in celebrating the legacies of monarchs past and present. There will be a daily street party in the village, a parade and lots of activities for visitors to get involved with. Today the final decorations have gone up – a huge well done to all teams involved for their help with getting the site decorated and ready for a week of right royal fun!

     

    Alongside our busy preparations for the week ahead, today we also welcomed Channel 5, who filmed a piece on the Migration stories we will be telling throughout the Jubilee week for their national news programme.  Mr Praveen Singh, a character based in part on the memories of Mr Piara Singh, who migrated to Wolverhampton from India at 18 years of age in 1951, will be introduced this week as part of our May half term programme. Mr Singh will be a part of the community preparing for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and plays a pivotal role in the Museum beginning to tell stories of migration to the UK in the 1950s and 60s.

    Vimal Korpal, Piara Singh, Sebastian Edwards, Piara’s son Jim

    To support the development of this character, BCLM have collaborated alongside actor and creator Vimal Korpal, who has workshopped both the character of Mr Singh and the situations the character will be placed in, with the staff in our team of historic characters who will be portraying the role or playing alongside it. The crew at Channel 5 also spoke to Mr Piara Singh and his son Jim who came in to share their story as part of the wider piece. Thank you to everyone involved today who helped bring this story to life, we look forward to the future of Mr Singh here at the Museum. You can watch the full report here.

     

     

     

  • Pension Guidance

    Making the most of your workplace savings

     The Museum’s pension provider, Aegon are running a series of sessions designed to help you get the most out of your workplace savings.

    Key areas that will be covered in these sessions include:

    • How to get the most out of your pension.
    • Your pension contributions and combining your pension pots.
    • Your investment fund options and retirement planning tools.
    • Reaching your retirement.

    Please find details of the sessions below, to book your place follow the relevant link below and register your details:11 May 10:30am
    How to get the most out of your pension
    11 May 12:00pm
    Your pension contributions and combining your pension pots
    12 May 10:30am
    Your investment fund options and retirement planning tools
    12 May 12:00pm
    Reaching your retirement
    18 May 10:30am
    How to get the most out of your pension
    18 May 12:00pm
    Your pension contributions and combining your pension pots
    19 May 10:30am
    Your investment fund options and retirement planning tools
    19 May 12:00pm
    Reaching your retirement

  • Event Update: “Back Home” – a 1940s Event

    Event Update: “Back Home” – a 1940s Event

    You will be familiar with the Museum’s 1940’s event. We have decided to shift the focus of the event this year to better reflect the domestic Black Country experience. The event, which will be called “Back Home”, will explore civilian life and stories of life in the Black Country and the wider region during the 1940s.

    Visitors will discover stories of how the people of the Black Country came together against difficult odds, and will commemorate the huge efforts of those at home during this pivotal period of history. Stories of the home guard, reserve occupations, make do & mend and dig for victory will be the key focus for the weekend.

    We appreciate that this may be different to what you may have expected. In order to support any questions you may have or may be asked by members of the public or re-enactor groups, someone from the Programming Team will be attending briefings over the course of the next week to answer your queries. A Q&A will be published based on the questions raised in these sessions.

    As we are yet to publicise the event and may not yet have informed re-enactors and traders at the time of publishing this update, please consider this information as confidential until such time as our event details have been made public via our website and social media. If you have any comment or question about the above we appreciate your discretion in bringing it to Team Managers or to the Programming team.

    In the event that you come across comments about this event on social media, please can we ask that these are directed to our Audiences & Communications team, who can be contacted via [email protected], and not addressed directly by yourselves. A copy of our social media policy can be found for your reference in the intranet documents file here. 

    Thank you for your cooperation.

     

  • Cycle to Work Scheme

    Save between 25-39%
    Can be used to purchase a new bike and/or accessories
    Also valid on e-bikes, cargo bikes and specialist adapted cycles – see full list of retailers see full list of retailers
    Check the savings using Cyclesheme’s savings calculator

    For more information email: [email protected]

     

  • Health Care Cash Plans

    Through Perbox you may be able to save:

    • Employees can claim back 100% of their healthcare costs
    • Cash plans start from just £1 a week depending on level of cover
    • Reduce the cost of absenteeism to your business
    • Look after your employees’ wellbeing
    • Easy set up and management with UK Healthcare

    For more information please visit: please visit: UK Healthcare or email: [email protected].

  • Save on tech purchases

    With a huge range of tech from Currys PC World:

    • Save between 2-12% depending on the tax rate
    • Valid on over 5,000 products from Currys PC World
    • Employees can spread the cost with up to 12 payments across 12 months
    • Check the savings using Techscheme’s saving calculator

    For further information please email: [email protected]