Community outreach - South West pilot
We have a heritage outreach pilot project in the South West region of Victoria (Shires of Glenelg, Southern Grampians, Moyne, Corangamite and Colac-Otway and the City of Warrnambool).
Custodians of twenty-five community collections will receive expert advice about the conservation of their collections.
The pilot project has 4 components:
- Information gathering by Heritage Victoria’s Outreach Co-ordinator;
- A full day visit by conservators from the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (CCMC);
- A written report from CCMC outlining priorities for conservation works, collection management issues, funding opportunities and skills development workshops; and
- A review at the project conclusion in June 2008
Pam Enting is the Outreach Co-ordinator of this pilot project. Her role is to develop, trial and evaluate a model of outreach. In doing this work, Pam has gathered statistical information about heritage objects and collections and their management from approximately 40 community collecting organisations in the South West region.
Pam has distributed information about training, funding and volunteering opportunities. She aims to develop a model that supports sustainable operations for custodians and owners of collections in the South West.
You can contact Pam at: pam.enting@dpcd.vic.gov.au.
Outcomes & benefits:
- Priorities in collections
- Significance & themes in collections
- Better access to grants
- Collaboration: eg RHSV
- Early career mentoring
The Victorian Government’s heritage strategy, Victoria’s Heritage: Strengthening our communities provides a new and enhanced range of programs to recognise, protect, interpret and manage Victoria’s diverse heritage.
One of the intentions of the Strategy is to improve understanding of heritage management techniques within the community. Initiatives to achieve this include an outreach project which provides access to specialist heritage expertise, volunteer recruitment and management and skills development for volunteers, tradespeople and specialists.