Heritage Volunteers
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.
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. The Arts Society Stirling & Forth Valley has for many years been engaged in a succession of conservation projects including
· Indexing and transferring Stirling Observer’s record of life in the local area in 1867 and 1868 to a digital format
· Documenting the papers of a local seed merchant dating back to the 19th century
· Indexing and digitising the Poor Relief records for Callander, Fintry, Killearn and Strathblane
Current projects include:
• Helping to conserve the uniforms in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regimental Museum in Stirling Castle
• Cataloguing documents and archival collections on-site in the Stirling Council Archive such as cleaning and storing the Stirling Burgh Records 1628 to 1890 which are then numbered against the Index of Acquisitions.
The major role played by the volunteers has helped Stirling Council’s Library Services achieve the Investing in Volunteers Standard. The group attached to Stirling Council Archive Department were invited to Council Chambers for the presentation of the Investing in Volunteers Award by George Thomson, Chief Executive of Volunteer Development Scotland.
Our Heritage Volunteer co-ordinator is Audrey Birrell