The Arts Society Heritage Volunteers are teams of committed non-specialist volunteers who work under the guidance of curators and other professionals to help conserve our heritage.

Call for Volunteers! The National Archives Kew

The project can be performed from home and entails transcribing hand-written entry form records of paintings and drawings submitted to the Stationers’ Company for copyright protection between 1862 and 1912.  

The reason this work is so important is that it will make the collection fully accessible. Researchers will have the ability to search the catalogue for names of artists and designers, companies and keywords to find out what kind of images were being registered and who was working in the creative industries at the time. 

More details can be found in the Documents section of Our Society, or click on the link here: Heritage volunteering: The National Archives Kew

The Arts Society Heritage Volunteers undertake projects for:

• museums
• National Trust properties
• historic houses
• libraries and gardens

They give their time to care for collections, record documents and act as guides and stewards.

Typical projects include:

• On-site conservation of books, manuscripts, archives and maps
• Cataloguing documents and archival listing
• Conservation of arms and armour, medals and military silver
• Preventative conservation of textiles, replica work and creation of period costumes
• Guiding and stewarding in museums, historic houses and gardens