MUSEUMS
Volunteer of the Year award – individual Winner
The D-Day Story, Portsmouth Museums – John Jenkins John Jenkins MBE was a young man when he landed on Gold Beach on June 8 1944 during the D-Day landings. Now 99 and walking with a stick, Jenkins
acts as a volunteer for the D-Day Story in Portsmouth, UK, which completed a £5m (US$6.1m) Lottery-funded refurbishment in March 2018.
“You never forget your comrades because you’re all in it together. It’s right that the courage and sacrifice of so many are being honoured 75 years on. We must never forget.” John Jenkins HigHly Commended: n National Museums Liverpool – Carl Clee ‘Our Bee Man’ n Pickering Beck Isle Museum – Gordon Clitheroe
Volunteers of the Year award – team Winner
History of Science Museum and Pitt Rivers Museums, University of Oxford Museums – Multaka-Oxford Volunteer Team
Multaka-Oxford aims to create volunteer opportunities and to use museums and collections as a ‘meeting point’ for bringing people together. The Arabic for ‘meeting point’, the Multaka scheme gives refugees from countries including Syria and Iraq volunteer jobs as museum tour guides in Oxford.
Multaka-Oxford is being delivered jointly by the Pitt Rivers Museum and the History of Science Museum
“The project not only offers practical support such as on-the-job training but also personal support such as providing a sense of inclusion.” Nicola Bird, project manager HigHly Commended: n National Museums Liverpool – Merseyside Maritime Museum Liverpool Women’s History Group 78
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