Outreach Champions
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, we repurposed our originally planned physical Outreach Champion training days by conducting individualised online training sessions for each appointed champion. This included regular bi-monthly 1 hour Zoom catchups for each Outreach Champion to ensure they are meeting targets and happy with project progress.
Outreach Champions included;
- Jez Collins (Regional Midlands + BAME)
- Amal Malik (Queer Asian Youth
- Dan Glass (LGBTQ+)
- Mira Makadia (Underground Asian Music)
- Eleanor Affleck (LGBTQ+)
- Sonia Long (Regional North + BAME)
- Siobhan Williams (Black British Creatives)
- Esther Freeman (Womens History)
- Chardine Taylor-Stone (BAME, Queer Subculture)
Every Outreach Champion was provided a digital pack including documentation on how to record oral histories, over Zoom, how to remotely receive photographs despite the lack of a scanner, and how to actively address the imbalance in the archive, steering away from stereotypical storytelling.
View some of the incredible work gathered by our Outreach Champion Network here
Outreach Champions included;
- Jez Collins (Regional Midlands + BAME)
- Amal Malik (Queer Asian Youth
- Dan Glass (LGBTQ+)
- Mira Makadia (Underground Asian Music)
- Eleanor Affleck (LGBTQ+)
- Sonia Long (Regional North + BAME)
- Siobhan Williams (Black British Creatives)
- Esther Freeman (Womens History)
- Chardine Taylor-Stone (BAME, Queer Subculture)
Every Outreach Champion was provided a digital pack including documentation on how to record oral histories, over Zoom, how to remotely receive photographs despite the lack of a scanner, and how to actively address the imbalance in the archive, steering away from stereotypical storytelling.
View some of the incredible work gathered by our Outreach Champion Network here
We have recorded an example training session and attached to our project records. During training each Outreach Champion is taught how to launch their own social media campaign and call-out for images. Champions learn new skills in terms of content acquisition, remote scanning, artist management, rights and permissions, oral history recording technique and practice, and provided with an introduction video to share with potential contributors on how their submission will be used and processed within the Museum of Youth Culture.
Despite this being a previously very physical activity involving meet-ups, physical events and marketing, we were able to reposition this vital task to a purely online and remote activity, and refocus the budget for expenses to negotiate more remote work hours from each Outreach Champion. Due to its popularity with the general public and it's success rate in terms of numbers, this is element of the project is one we find most successful, particularly as it has empowered and tasked the public to get involved, and has kickstarted our Oral History collections. Outreach Champions programme is something we will continue to grow and develop as we seek future funding to build the online Museum of Youth Culture.
Despite this being a previously very physical activity involving meet-ups, physical events and marketing, we were able to reposition this vital task to a purely online and remote activity, and refocus the budget for expenses to negotiate more remote work hours from each Outreach Champion. Due to its popularity with the general public and it's success rate in terms of numbers, this is element of the project is one we find most successful, particularly as it has empowered and tasked the public to get involved, and has kickstarted our Oral History collections. Outreach Champions programme is something we will continue to grow and develop as we seek future funding to build the online Museum of Youth Culture.
