Brilliant stuff. I hope this will help to address the acute funding crisis in regional museums.

❤️ this jumper Lilian Greenwood! It was great to take a few minutes break from campaigning to enjoy Wollaton Hall and Gardens. As East Midlands Mayor, I will launch a ‘Visit East Midlands’ scheme to boost tourism and celebrate our region’s heritage.
➡️ claireward.co.uk

Congratulations to Delaine Le Bas on being nominated for the #TurnerPrize - she has exhibited with us many times over the past 20 years, with some of her stunning work currently on display in Abbot's Hall

I popped into Marketing Derby Derby City Lab in the Derbion shopping centre. It’s a space inviting Derbians to express their ambitions for the city.

A City of Surprises sounds good to me!

Unconvinced re new label design (left)

Congratulations to Derby County promotion to the Championship #dcfc fans #dcfc

The Best two supported clubs automatically promoted. Both Portsmouth F(C) 🏆 and Derby County have faced financial oblivion in the last decade. Both prospered due to the power of their fans.

Congratulations to Derby County promotion to the Championship #dcfc fans #dcfc

The Best two supported clubs automatically promoted. Both Portsmouth F(C) 🏆 and Derby County have faced financial oblivion in the last decade. Both prospered due to the power of their fans.

Passionate about heritage and the impact it can have on communities?

The National Lottery Heritage Fund are looking for two new Committee members, Midlands & East, for a term of 4 years

📅Applications close 22 May

Find out more 👇

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“The east Midlands has long been at the bottom of the pecking order when it comes to investment. It consistently receives the lowest public spending per person – 11% below the UK average.”

If you want to affect change, go vote in the mayoral elections
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Looking forward to this in the Autumn Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill with Loughborough University CIEHF

Fits snugly with Derby Museums participatory and human centred practice

Name a leading authority in #museums policy in the UK

Thanks!

Thrilled that the third cohort of UK Creative Community Fellows is announced and thanks to our partners NAS The Bowes Museum

Meet UK Creative Community Fellows' 2024 cohort! Learn about the ways they use arts and culture to drive change in their communities and the journey they're embarking on at artstrategies.org/press-clipping…

NAS The Bowes Museum Arts Council England #UKCCF

Fantastic to see Delaine Le Bas nominated for 2024 #TurnerPrize over the last 20 years she exhibited her work at the then Museum of East Anglian Life now Food Museum She was brilliant to work with.

In the bookshop. Going away for a few days and looking for a new read. As I get older the length of the book and print size is much bigger factor in my reading choices.

There has always been in Britain, the first industrial nation, a strand of radical radical politics rooted in nature and the countryside. The need for inclusive access to the landscape and the exploitation of the natural world intensifies this theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Day in our garden with a lovely old apple tree in blossom, cowslips and the Merlin app telling me who the birds are!

My kids were in the care system. I hope the government change their mind and don’t let the next generation down.

Lemn Sissay: ‘brilliant’ plans to improve child social care ignored by ministers theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Anand Menon - I find it depressing that both of the major political parties, one of which will form a government after the next election, do not know the difference between free movement and a limited youth mobility scheme which involves visas.”

Me too ! theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Several years ago the curator of Derby Museums mysteriously disappeared