Volunteer

Volunteers offer us invaluable support. With a story to tell as big as the postal service, extra help is always welcome!

In 2006, our volunteers have helped us to promote the BPMA by hosting a stand at Stampex; prepare parts of our collection for cataloguing; create a new index database for the Post Office staff magazines; and help us run the open days at the Museum Store.

We have also had Access & Learning interns developing web materials, an education pack, a loan box for schools and working with our Friends. Thanks again to everyone who has pitched in.

We are also willing to accept work experience placements.

Current Projects

Current project being worked on by some of our volunteers includes:

• Researching and compiling information to form short biographies of poster artists
• Providing assistance in managing open afternoons at the Museum Store
• Documenting philatelic material and re-housing it prior to full cataloguing
• Assisting with the indexing of Post Office magazines
• POST 118 series (Post Office photograph library) repackaging and cataloguing
• Creating authority records providing brief biographies of poster artists represented in the BPMA collections
• Documenting and cataloguing the museum's telecommunications collection
• Promoting the BPMA through representing the organisation at external events
• Helping to cover special events at the Museum Store
• Researching elements of Post Office history for exhibitions and events

Future projects the BPMA would consider for volunteers include:

• Producing pallets and storage frames for objects
• Cleaning and packing parts of the collection
• Documentation of objects
• Assisting with cataloguing work
• Editing and moving forward the object names thesaurus
• Summarising oral history interviews
  

How to get involved

If you are interested in any of these opportunities and would like to get involved please contact us now. 

You can also support us by joining the Friends of the BPMA. We thank you for any help you can give.