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Royal Pavilion & Museums MPM Programme 2016-17

Arts Council England Q2 Report (July - September 2016)

The following is a summary update of activity against outcomes, for the MPM Programme for the period July - September 2016

The report is laid out as per the Arts Council England 5 goals and includes data where appropriate For further information please contact: Florence Edwards Administrative Support Officer 4-5 Pavilion Buildings Brighton BN1 1EE 01273 292562 [email protected] http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/

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Goal 1 Excellence Excellence is thriving and celebrated in the arts, museums and libraries Our projects under Goal 1 have two specific aims: bringing arts and heritage together to engage and inspire new and more diverse audiences; and improving public access to RPM’s outstanding and Designated collections Agreed Outcomes:

RPM’s collections are more accessible and relevant to audiences

Audiences have greater depth of engagement with collections, they are inspired by them and have a stronger sense of shared ownership of the stories they tell

Creative partnerships strengthen RPM’s work

Audiences are increased and more diverse

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Themed Programming Fashion Cities Africa The first major UK exhibition dedicated to contemporary African fashion continued at BMAG. Interim evaluation (self-completed digivey survey) indicated 54% first time visitors to BMAG, 92% rating exhibition good or excellent, and 21% audience identifying as BME. An accompanying Africa Arts Festival has been co- created in collaboration with local BME communities which will take place at the end of October. For images of the exhibition and associated events see https://www.instagram.com/brighton_museums/ and http://fashion-africa-brightonmuseums.org.uk/.

Figure 1: Photo from the event “2manysiblings present: Thrift Social for Fashion Cities Africa”

Museum Lab RPM’s collections are more accessible: Colleagues continue to make inroads into the backlog documentation targets required for Accreditation as demonstrated by figures reported. New records are being created for as yet unrecorded or un-catalogued specimens and objects. These objects are in the main from the Natural Sciences, Toy and Film collections.

https://www.instagram.com/brighton_museums/

http://fashion-africa-brightonmuseums.org.uk/

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Records are being updated for all collections, as colleagues work on material either in MuseumLab or across RPM’s other sites. Recently recruited volunteers are making a large impact in documenting and digitising local history photographs, and postcards. Collections Assistants are working methodically through the Booth Museum collections ensuring all location data and object description is correct. These improved records facilitate ease of access to collections for staff, researchers, and when improved information online. Collections care figures are being achieved although not quite achieving target as this is harder to monitor. Some development work is needed to streamline reporting. The Wild Wednesdays project to repack and digitise bird skins is hitting both of the documentation and care targets- improving collections records with images, and each bird is being repacked and appropriately labelled by staff, regular volunteers and the public. Every Wednesday throughout August summer holidays in partnership with RSPB, we trialled a new type of public offer where visitors can directly assist the collections staff and volunteers with caring for and digitising a specific part of the collection. Partnership working: August saw a Bears Discovery Day, which worked with and showcased the work of local researcher and bear biologist John Kitchin, This was linked to a newly developed display on the Café Balcony, and also inspired an Artyfact workshop. This gave public an opportunity to see rarely displayed material, meet a researcher, and also undertake creative activities for children.

Audiences increased/more diverse: LGBTQ audience development: The MuseumLab hosted several invited/ticketed events, including Pre Pride LGBTQ film screening linked to Fashion Cities Africa exhibition and an invited discussion with stakeholders from LGBTQ community about how the museum can better represent them, and find ways to co-create the next spotlight display. A MuseumLab Tumblr is also now live: http://brightonmuseumlab.tumblr.com/post/151048349661/a-female-common-pheasant-on-display-at-brighton

Figure 2: ‘Wild Wednesdays’ in MuseumLab

Figure 3: ‘Bears Discovery Day’ in MuseumLab

http://brightonmuseumlab.tumblr.com/post/151048349661/a-female-common-pheasant-on-display-at-brighton

http://brightonmuseumlab.tumblr.com/post/151048349661/a-female-common-pheasant-on-display-at-brighton

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Royal Pavilion Estate

RPM’s collections are more accessible and relevant to audiences: Alexandra Loske and Kevin Bacon have been working on the development of a dedicated webpage for a rare early book on the Royal Pavilion Estate (Repton, 1808), which will include a combination of audio-visual and interactive material telling the story and explaining the significance of the object. An initial page has already been created and allows viewers to see and read the book in its entirety: http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/history/in-focus/reptons-1806-designs/. Public talks (which are open to anyone and include objects from the archives) continue to be popular, for example, a Pavilion Tales talk on how William Alexander’s images of China from the 1790s influenced the design of the Royal Pavilion. Audiences have greater depth of engagement with collections, they are inspired by them and have a stronger sense of shared ownership of the stories they tell: Alexandra has selected around 60 works on paper and printed books for a display in the Prints & Drawings Gallery of the Museum, opening in March 2017 entitled ‘Visions of the Royal Pavilion Estate’.

The display will be a reflection of some of the archival work carried out over the last 15 months. As part of this project Alexandra continues working with volunteer Colin Jones, researcher Dr Tracey Anderson and other colleagues on the creation of digital recreations of lost stages and buildings of the RP Estate. Creative partnerships strengthen RPM’s work: A number of pubic talks and events have taken place in collaboration with Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival and The Keep. For example, a lecture on rare and unusual images and plans relating to the Royal Pavilion Estate, given at Brighton Dome on 11 September for Heritage Open Day: http://brightondome.org/event/10350/heritage_open_day/. Alongside this, there is a regular column in Viva Brighton Magazine and articles in other publications on objects and themes from our collections.

Figure 4: Humphry Repton’s ‘Red Book’ of 1806

Figure 5: ‘Pavilion Tales’ talk in the Royal Pavilion

http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/history/in-focus/reptons-1806-designs/

http://brightondome.org/event/10350/heritage_open_day/

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Spotlight Gallery

Our Q1 report set out the scope and ambition of ‘Experimental Motion: the art of film innovation’. The display is in the final stages of preparation, opening Sat 22 Oct 2016 and running until Sun 4 June 2017. The partnerships involved in the preparation of the display, associated programme and wider Ellerman-funded Film Pioneers project have been shaping up very well over the last two quarters: Screen Archive South East have edited the historic films; the BFI have re-mastered and licensed some of the more recent and contemporary footage; we’re working alongside Videoclub and the University of Brighton with Hong Kong-based new media artist Choi Sai-Ho (ACE-funded artist in residence, drawing inspiration from the RPM and SASE collections) who’s work will be screened in the UoB Grand Parade gallery during Cinecity in November; Fabrica will be hosting the first screening event for filmmakers who’ve submitted work in response to the project’s call for new short films inspired by the city, again during Cinecity; and we’ve been co-ordinating with Lighthouse along the way. A bid to the BFI-funded Film Hub SE has been discussed and is in preparation for a programme of display-related events in the New Year. Q2 has seen the completion of a three-month, part-time placement for a member of RPM’s frontline staff via its Workforce Development Programme, to assist with the documentation and digitisation of the Film & Media collections as part of the wider Film Pioneers project. Reporting can only be partial at this stage before the launch of the display. However, as reported above, it’s clear that in the preparation of ‘Experimental Motion’ one outcome has clearly been met: ‘Creative partnerships strengthen RPM’s work’. Partnership working has provided: practical help and advice at no charge; knowledge-sharing and specialist expertise; additional platforms for showcasing aspects of the project and its outputs; and funding.

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Goal 2

Audiences

Everyone has the opportunity to experience and to be inspired by the arts, museums and libraries For goal 2, we are focused on our mission to inspire a strong sense of shared ownership of RPM Agreed Outcomes:

Audiences are increased, more diverse and have a stronger sense of ownership

Collections better reflect and engage audiences

Visitors have a better quality experience

Broadening access through digital development

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Cross Arts & Heritage Events Programme Dig it! Family Archaeology day, Saturday 16 July, BMAG Created in collaboration with Brighton & Hove Archaeology Society, University of Brighton and Archaeology South East (UCL), this even offered visitors the opportunity to meet archaeologists and discover ancient, hidden treasures from sites across Brighton & Hove from the Neolithic to the Victorian age. Remix the Museum Discovery Day, 17 September, BMAG As part of Brighton Digital Festival 2016 and co-created with Brighton Youth Film Festival this drop in workshop enabled visitors to create their own animations using the RPM handling collections and Natural Science collection. It challenged perceptions of museum objects as items preserved behind glass cases and used contemporary technologies and equipment. Feedback included ‘Fun, interactive and brings museum to life’ and ‘Great use of a public resource and in an interactive way, rather than passively viewing/consuming objects and images.’ On 21 September an audience of 50 people including 32 members of the BME Heritage Network met South African fashion arts collective The Sartists, one of South Africa’s most exciting and dynamic creative collectives, who are currently featured in our Fashion Cities Africa exhibition. Wanda Lephoto, Xzavier Zulu, Kabelo Kungwane and photographer Andile Buka discussed their explorations into fashion and style in the post-Apartheid landscape, their influences and their collaborations with major brands including Adidas and The Brooklyn Circus. After the interview session led by exhibition curator Helen Mears and an extensive QandA from the audience, visitors enjoyed an informal late night visit to Fashion Cities Africa.

Figure 6: The Sartists talking at the Q&A as part of the BME Heritage Network event

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Audience Research There was an improvement in Q2 on Q1 visitor satisfaction rates (86% against 85% in Q1) and again on the final year position of 83% for 2015-16. Satisfaction rates for each site are as follows: Royal Pavilion (88%), Brighton Museum (69%), Preston Manor (91%), Hove Museum (82%), and the Booth Museum (74%).

Advisory Groups BME Heritage Network: A fundraising workshop was held on 21 July 2016 with speakers from Arts Council England, the Heritage Lottery Fund and RPM’s own Foundation. As reported in Q1, four BME Heritage Network members undertook volunteer placements with Royal Pavilion & Museums over the period April – July 2016. Outcomes include a schools’ gallery talk for the exhibition and a new ‘Africa’-related learning resource. One BME HN member is currently undertaking programming work for Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (Africa Arts Festival: http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/events/event/fashion-cities-africa-africa-arts-festival/). Other BME HN members are leading ‘Bitesize’-style public events at Brighton Museum. LGBTQ advisory forum/critical friend panel: 3 members were recruited to work on the 2017 anniversary project, including:

Artist and researcher Matt Smith

Liverpool Museums Curator of Local History and Pride & Prejudice co lead Matt Exley

Sarah Tighe-Ford, Equalities and Inclusion Officer at Brighton & Hove City Council All attended our launch evening with the LGBTQ community.

Community Engagement Pavilion Blues exhibition (about limbless soldiers) We have provided a number of bespoke tours and presentations: as part of the Museum BiteSize talks, for The Recovery College and for Coasting Together (an amputee support group attached to the local hospital). Particularly inspiring has been the dialogue with visitors, through the questions posed on the conversation wall, referring to modern disability issues. The diversity of response continues and has inspired Susan Eskdale (Community Engagement Officer) to use them to work with groups and artists to create new work and programming that will use them as a starting point for new

http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/events/event/fashion-cities-africa-africa-arts-festival/

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commissioned work. In response to comments on the wall and discussions with the AAG we have placed more chairs with arms around BMAG for visitors. Museums Tales restarted in BMAG (a writing course for people with mental health issues who use the museums and collections to inspire new writing). Susan was particularly excited by the course leader’s spontaneous response to the wall of corrugated iron around the seminar room in which they work, using it as the starting point for the 1st exercise. In preparation for the launch of the LGBTQ Community Spotlight gallery exhibition & programming in 2017, there has been lots of research and conversations with individuals and organisations that represent the diverse B&H community. We held an introductory and networking event at BMAG attended by over 40 people, where ideas were shared, projects, past, present and future were presented, and conversations started in the gallery via a market place layout followed by an open floor discussion lead by Susan Eskdale. The event was an exciting exchange, with an overwhelmingly positive response, for RPM, LGBTQ individuals & organisations wanting to work together.

Digital Initiatives Highlights in Q2 include:

10% increase in web sessions on last year

Views of main blog have grown 18% on previous year (over 14,000 page views in Q2)

81% increase in Facebook traffic to main website

Three Ways to 3D History event showcasing VR, 3D digitisation and 3D modelling in Brighton Museum as part of Brighton Digital Festival (which had over 50 attendees)

Next Digital Review will be produced in Q4 (however, our Digital Policy is in early draft stage)

Figure 7: Brighton Museums blog – views have grown by 18% on previous year

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Goal 3

Resilience The arts, museums and libraries are resilient and environmentally sustainable We will intensify our focus on ensuring the long term sustainability of RPM by developing our audiences, building our profile and diversifying our income streams Agreed Outcomes:

Achieve greater resilience by developing our audiences and building our profile

Investment in sustainable operating systems

Achieve greater financial resilience by developing business opportunities and growing support

Preston Manor, the Booth and Hove Museum become more sustainable

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Marketing Developing our audiences (Digital)

Top tweet was about Snow Dogs with 312 engagements: https://twitter.com/BrightonMuseums/status/779319379020357633/photo/1

Tunnel Tour post was most popular organic FB post in Q2 with 238 engagements: https://www.facebook.com/royalpavilionandbrightonmuseums/posts/1238797036152294

In August RPM hosted a photoshoot with Zoella: https://twitter.com/lindablacker/status/780112301559050240 (each of these tweets got over 6000 likes each)

Building Our Profile This quarter our collections and venues have featured in several Brighton tourism features with a broad reach, from our ceramics design classics in British Airways’ China magazine to the Royal Pavilion in the Economist’s magazine 1843, the in-flight magazine for Cathy Pacific, Cara (Ireland's third highest-read magazine) and on the Daily Telegraph’s ‘ultimate UK bucket list’. Our current major exhibition Fashion Cities Africa got a four-page feature in Grazia magazine Morocco and a six-page feature in Wings, the in-flight magazine for Nigerian Arik Air, and was previewed in Popular Patchwork magazine and reviewed in Embroidery magazine. Country Life ran a full feature on the recreation of the Pavilion’s Saloon silk, by our consultant Annabel Westman, while Museums Journal profiled Preston Manor. Psychic News also focused on Preston Manor and the supernatural, with a three-page feature, as did the B&H Independent with a centrespread on ‘Superstition and haunted histories at Preston Manor’.

Business & Operating Systems Invest in sustainable operating systems Our current provider of audio guides at the Royal Pavilion has experienced major supply and technical issues this year which has had a knock on impact on our ability to provide adequate interpretation in multiple languages to visitors as we simply do not have enough players available. This led us in May /June 2016 to develop an in-house mobile web tour of Royal Pavilion. During Q2 630 visitors have used this tour and 88% of surveyed users stated they would like to use a similar bring your own device tour at one of our other museums. Given that this was developed entirely in-house using existing resources, this is an important model to bring forward.

Figure 8: Zoella photoshoot in the Royal Pavilion (6,000 likes on Twitter)

https://twitter.com/BrightonMuseums/status/779319379020357633/photo/1

https://www.facebook.com/royalpavilionandbrightonmuseums/posts/1238797036152294

https://twitter.com/lindablacker/status/780112301559050240

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Commercial Development: Functions Achieve greater financial resilience by developing business opportunities and growing support This summer we have worked on a number of bespoke event offers which have resulted in significant increases in revenue. We hosted our first bespoke estate tour, with the functions, conservation and garden teams developing the offer together, with 58 attendees charged at £60 per head. We have continued our joint venture approach to larger scale functions working with Hampshire Regency Dancers on a Regency Ball which returned significant profit. The team also hosted An Evening with Jane Austen with a first rate professional theatre cast with 87% of available tickets sold. Finally we also hosted a commercial Chinoiserie course with the Royal Collections Trust which was a success and following the event they have suggested working with us again in the future.

Fundraising Membership income is £89,708

Front desk staff are still actively selling memberships to maintain our excellent onsite sales figures

Annual Patron membership income £16,000 from 20 patrons

New Head of Fundraising now in place and able to re-focus on building patron numbers

Social Enterprise This quarter we have received £8,411 from the Volk’s Electric Railway project. We have also been awarded a new contract to work with Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals to help them prepare an HLF bid. Business Planning: Booth, Preston Manor & Hove

Hove Museum & Art Gallery

VSOs: there has been a marked increase in the engagement of VSOs beyond their standard duties. The VSOs are involved in creating signage; engaging visitors in surveys and delivering workshops and talks.

In August Hove Museum hosted Chomp, a lunch club that is run in the school holidays for low income families whose children would usually receive free school meals. The food was provided by Fareshare, a charity that collects unused food form supermarket for redistribution on schemes like the Chomp one.

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Hove Museum has staged an exhibition developed and delivered almost entirely in-house and at very low cost. The exhibition, Silver Portraits, is the work of a local photographer and is part of the development of a programme of simple, quick displays of the work of local artists, craftspeople and designers.

Preston Manor The decision to host the Doreen Valiente Foundation witchcraft display has been fully justified in business terms as we continue to generate significant income from admissions and retail. School bookings were low in Q1 and Q2 so these figures must be primarily due to the popularity of the witchcraft display and the associated events, especially ‘Witchcraft Love’ celebrations, which take place outside in the Walled Garden. Preston Manor will now stay open at weekends until the witchcraft display closes on 27th Nov, but encouragingly, as we enter Q3, schools are booking role play sessions for the autumn term, so the end of year position for visitor numbers and income is looking very positive.

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The Booth Museum of Natural History Some progress has been made during Q2 towards achieving the priority outcomes for the Booth, namely the replacement of unsafe glass in cases in the geology display and elsewhere, and improving the accessibility of the building and the displays and services. On the former, the use of a large Perspex sheet has been successfully trialled as a safe alternative to glass in one geology case, and costed plans are being prepared to extend this improvement to other cases. Accessibility into the building via the front steps & doors continues to be an issue as we strive to find a balance between the Booth’s listed building status and the needs of some audience groups, particularly visitors who are blind or partially-sighted, and those with mobility issues. The on-going work conducted through the ‘Sensing Culture’ project continues to inform these and other accessibility issues, and a programme of manageable and affordable improvements will follow in due course. Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Significant progress has been made in Q2 to drive two aspects of the BMAG Business Plan for this financial year. In terms of marketing, the dedicated BMAG leaflets, poster, flag and banner were produced and placed. And we completed a high-profile re-interpretation and re-presentation of the work of four artists featured in our 20thC gallery – Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Eric Ravilious and Grayson Perry. Using new, eye-catching graphics (including images of the artists), re-configured case arrangements, and by telling more of the stories behind these artists and their work, we’ve been able to showcase some of the world-class objects in the museum. This initiative is reflected on the website, specifically the landing page for BMAG, helping to hook new visitors especially. We have also worked in partnership with the Martlets ‘Snowdogs by the Sea’ trail, hosting the launch of their schools Snowpups initiative and showing five of the Snowpups in the galleries (Snowpups are also shown at HMAG and the Booth Museum). The ambition is that this will help build audiences, especially first-time local visitors. All of the three activities described above directly relate to ‘Achieving greater resilience by developing our audiences and building our profile’.

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Goal 4 Leadership Leadership and workforce in the arts, museums and libraries are diverse and appropriately skilled Activity under Goal 4 focuses on the support we provide the museums sector, drawing on our key strengths, and on the step change we will make in skills development for staff and volunteers Agreed Outcomes:

Cultural organisations work together to deliver sustainable Heritage Learning

Efficient and effective delivery of RPM’s MPM and SEMDP

Organisational learning, experience and skills shared within the SE and nationally

RPM has a more diverse and skilled workforce and volunteer base

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Heritage Learning Partnership This quarter has seen the delivery of the magical mystery tours for this year’s Flagship project. The Flagship is being lead this year by Fedora, one of the Heritage Learning partners, and supported by RPM. Fedora successfully applied for HLF funding to put on an exhibition and related activity around the use of film/entertainment in WW1, based around Sussex. The Flagship project has taken this theme, and working with 5 local primary schools is exploring the theme of how people entertain and support each other in times of crisis, using a well-being theme. The Flagship is exploring the use of film/entertainment used in WW1, and bringing this up to date, asking the children to present a show, to be hosted and the Royal Pavilion, called Turn That Frown Upside Down. The Magical Mystery Tours were held in September, and involved children visiting the Dome and the Theatre Royal to learn about how these venues were used during WW1, and how they are used now, including back-stage tours, and meeting a Theatre Manager and other members of staff. The tours also included the children going on the new i360, using this time to receive their challenge that they will now go back to school to produce, in time for the show. The show will take place in November.

Sector Leadership Organisational learning, experience and skills continues to be shared within the South East region and nationally. For Q1 we reported on the planning and development for this year’s MPM-funded conference, Workforce Development: Developing a skilled and diverse workforce in the cultural sector, to be held at the Royal Pavilion & Museums’ (RPM) Old Court Room in Brighton on 30 November 2016. This work has continued apace in Q2. We are also preparing a second one-day conference for Q3, not directly funded through the MPM programme, but also demonstrating leadership in the sector: Creating African Fashion Histories is hosted by Royal Pavilion & Museums with the Sussex Africa Centre / University of Sussex and the University of Brighton, in the Old Court Room, on 2 November 2016 (http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/events/event/creating-african-fashion-histories/). Coinciding with the first major UK exhibition dedicated to contemporary African fashion, Fashion Cities Africa, this conference will explore the possibilities and limitations of dress and fashion history to discuss current and past narratives in African fashion.

RPM staff have continued to be consulted and present seminars and conference papers in Q2. A full list for Q1-4 can be presented at the end of the year, with highlights referenced in the quarterly reports. For Q2, most significant has been the International Museum Academy, running 15-19 August and funded by the British Council. Organised by Culture 24, the summer school was co-hosted by RPM and Lighthouse, and RPM co-delivered a course on digital content with Culture 24 for the eight participants from China, India, Singapore, Azerbaijan, Ireland and the UK. Plans for future involvement in the IMA initiative are to be discussed with the British Council in October. The digital content course included a presentation on RPM’s Digital Ambassador’s project: we’ve already heard that the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has been inspired to create a similar scheme with local young people. A recent evaluation of the IMA course returned the following results:

100% of participants agreed or strongly agreed that it ‘was a high quality course’

85% planned to share learning with colleagues

71% agreed to develop a project/action as a result of the course

http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/events/event/creating-african-fashion-histories/

http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/events/event/creating-african-fashion-histories/

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British Council noted that Royal Pavilion & Museums ‘enriched the course through live case studied and stories’, while ‘Culture 24’s expansive and strategic approach to digital worked very well’.

As part of Brighton Digital Festival, RPM also participated in an Erasmus-funded Creative Museum event at 68 Middle Street, Brighton, on 23 September: this included a presentation on community engagement around the Indian Hospital story, and how this has informed a new prototype interactive in the Indian Hospital gallery. RPM’s Annual Review is in the final stages of preparation and will be ready in October 2016.

Volunteering & Workforce Development

Volunteers: This quarter has seen the delivery of the new Garden Greeters scheme in the Estate gardens. 9 volunteers were recruited, including one co-ordinator, to deliver the scheme between July – September. The Garden Greeters have provided a welcome to the Estate, and all information about the partner sites involved, including the Chapel Royal, the Pavilion Gardens Café, the Royal Pavilion & Brighton Museum, the Dome and the Theatre Royal. The project has been deemed a success, but further evaluation is currently taking place with partners and Garden Greeters to plan improvements for next year’s scheme. Workforce Development: This quarter, the key highlight has been seeing the development in the 4 front-of-house staff that are working together as a team to plan RPM’s national conference on Workforce Development. The team have developed skills around event planning, presentation, organisational and communication skills, arranging speakers, presenting at a national conference, liaising with caterers & technicians, and arranging and co-ordinating workshops. The conference is being held on 30th November.

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Goal 5

Children & Young People Every child & young person has the opportunity to experience the richness of the arts, museums and libraries

The activities under Goal 5 are geared to make a real difference to children and young people’s skills, learning and quality of life Agreed Outcomes:

Families and children have engaging and enjoyable experiences

RPM supports and provides inspiring learning experiences

A diverse range of young people are actively engaged with RPM

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Children & Families Programming The families’ holiday activity programme is stronger than ever with very high attendance and excellent feedback. We are in the process of creating a mailing list for activities for children. Hove Museum is hosting the Snowpups, part of the Snowdogs by the Sea project. This project is raising money for the Martlett’s hospice and the Snowpups are an offshoot project for schoolchildren. Hove Museum has 5 pups painting by local school children and are part of a trail between libraries and our museums in the city. To support our snowpups we have created resources for the galleries. We are running a project this term with vulnerable young women from Hove park school (through the youth service). At Hove Museum the young women will be engaged on the arts award.

Schools Digital Learning

Families and children have engaging and enjoyable experiences - 450 Portslade Academy students came over three days as part of the school enrichment week. They were given a variety of free activities, a gallery exploration, gallery trails, handling boxes, and a short 'Working in a Museum' talk from a variety of staff.

RPM supports and provides inspiring learning experiences - As part of the Fashion Cities Africa programme, 4 member of the BAME community took part in a Learning Placement working with us to develop the schools gallery talk for the exhibition and to redevelop the schools Africa handling session.

A diverse range of young people are actively engaged with RPM - Our Future City, a cross city, cross agenda programme to support CYP through arts, heritage and culture hosted its first Be Collective consultation event at Museum Lab in Brighton Museum. CYP, arts, heritage and cultural professionals from across the city attended to discuss the development of wellbeing and creativity programmes.

Early Years

We have been developing our work with CHOMP, who provide free family meals during the school holidays for families on low incomes. Throughout the summer holidays we supported the work of CHOMP by running object based handling sessions for the children and engaging the adults with updates on holiday activities for families in Brighton & Hove Museums.

We have deepened our work with local children Centres in partnership with their Family Support Team attending events aimed at families with babies.

In July we made another successful Family Day intervention at Lewes Prison working with Prisoners and their Families. These sessions are really welcomed by prisoners and their families alike, helping to keep children and their fathers in touch and increasing good outcomes for families touched by effects of absent fathers.

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Youth Engagement

In August 2016 RP&M delivered a targeted arts summer school- over 5 weeks 5 creative workshops took place at the 5 sites, each focussing on the different collections and buildings, and experimenting with different art forms. For Example the Royal Pavilion provided the inspiration for a digital animation workshop and one participant said “It has inspired me to use technology in different ways” 24 young people took part, and were referred from a number of different agencies in the cities such as the Youth employability service and young carers.

RP&M visited Hangleton & Knoll youth centre with objects from a handling collection. The aim of the session was to meet young people in this area of Brighton& Hove and establish a relationship. From this a series of workshops have been planned for Sept- December, that include visits to Hove Museum and the Booth Museum.

Adopted and Fostered young people working with CAMHS visited Booth Museum as part of their annual summer project. Inspired by the collection they decorated their ‘Snow Dog’ which a part of a wider city initiative by Martlets.

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Q2 Appendix I: Targets 2016-17 Goal Work Package 2016-17 Target (Year 2) 2016-17 Target

(Year 2) Q2 achieved Year 2 achieved

to date

1 Themed Programming

Number of exhibitions / commissions /displays telling new stories from RPM collections

8 3

5


Number of exhibitions developed with community groups, cultural organisations/partners and artists.

5 2

4


Number of exhibitions evaluated (Digivey) 2 1 (ongoing) 1


Visitor numbers to BMAG exhibition galleries for 1 exhibition (Fashion Cities Africa) (automatic counters)

No target 22,535 39,010


% visitors coming to BMAG from BME communities (Digivey)

26% 21% 22% (average)


% resident visitors coming to BMAG from BME communities (Digivey)

5% increase Not yet sourced from info, report to be run at end of exhibition.

Not yet sourced from info, report to be run at end of exhibition.


% visitors coming to BMAG with an interest in fashion (for Fashion Cities Africa) (Digivey) *NB this does include people identifying main reason for coming as an interest in African fashion and design but only those who selected their main reason as being an interest in fashion generally.

20% 11%* 11%*

1 Museum Lab Collections Documentation: Number of CMS records created

1,000 981 2,765

1 Museum Lab Collections Documentation: Number of CMS records improved

10,000 11,153 31,268

1 Museum Lab Collections Care: Number of objects assessed and repacked

1,750 c.1,100 c.2,389

1 Museum Lab Number of tailored and/or public programmes/events 4 27 50

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Goal Work Package 2016-17 Target (Year 2) 2016-17 Target (Year 2)

Q2 achieved Year 2 achieved to date

1 Royal Pavilion Estate

Number of archives processed (Year 1 & 2 only)

100 80 100


Number of students, academics, volunteers and community members involved

8 0 3


Number of stories researched

3 3 6


Implementation of RP Estate interpretation strategy

2 pilot projects 0 0

1 Spotlight Gallery

% of all objects on display to be on display for the first time

70% Display opening 22 October 2016

Display opening 22 October 2016

1 Spotlight Gallery

% of visitors rate the displays as excellent or good 70% Display opening 22 October 2016

Display opening 22 October 2016

2 Cross Arts & Heritage Events

Total number of events

200 84

111


Total number of participants 10,000 1,963 67,978


Number of events developed in partnership with BDBF

15 1 11


Number of events developed in partnership with other cultural partners, community groups and artists

30 17 28


Pilot targeted programme of new activity,

2 0 1


Evaluate sustainability of pilot programme and report

2 0 1

2 Audience research & advisory groups

Research and feedback on 1 project per advisory group

3 0 4

2 Audience Number of Advisory Group meetings AAG 3 AAG 1 AAG 2

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research & advisory groups

MC 12 BME HN 3 LGBT 2

MC 3 BME HN 1 LGBT: 1

MC: 6 BME HN 4 LGBT: 1


Number of participants in advisory groups

AAG 9 MC 10 BME HN 25 LGBT 10

AAG 6 MC: 10 BME HN 20 LGBT: 47

AAG 6 MC: 18 BME HN 20 LGBT: 47


Visitor satisfaction

BME: to be set LGBT: to be set Limited Disability: to be set

BME: 86% LGBT: 80% Limited Disability: 83%

BME: 86% LGBT: 80% Limited Disability: 83%


Visitor and non-visitor profiles and satisfaction rates across all RPM sites 90% across all sites

86% 86%

2 Community Engagement

Number of interpretation projects, displays and events co-produced with our communities

1 Pavilion Blues Discussion wall community conversation throughout exhibition

1 LGBTQ spotlight exhibition in progress

1.5/2


Number of participants engaged in CE programme on site

288 317 605


Number of participants engaged in CE outreach programme

82 20 102


Profile of participants

End of year outcome

End of year outcome

End of year outcome


Qualitative measure – sense of ownership

End of year outcome

End of year outcome

End of year outcome

2 Digital Initiatives

Number of website sessions 550,000 151,161

297,261


Number of online posts by staff, volunteers and participants

120 33 82

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Social media followers (total no. of subscribers to actively used social media platforms: Facebook + Twitter + Google+ + YouTube)

17,600 16572

16572


No. of digital projects with external partners

6 1 2


Annual review of Digital Initiatives

1 0 0

3 Marketing E-news subscribers

9,000 subscriber growth rate is now at 133 per month

5,270

3 Marketing Annual Review 1 Due Q3 Due Q3

3 Marketing Delivery of Audience Development Plans by Site 533,515 (all sites) 151,293 291,227

3 Marketing Major press story per month

1 Multiple

3 Marketing Develop groups & travel trade sales & marketing strategy (5% growth on 2015/16) 141,039 39,756 92,488

3 Business & operating systems

Evaluate actions from review 3 further systems reviewed

1 in progress (retail)

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3 Commercial Development - Functions

Earned income through functions (10% increase on 2015/16)

£152,732 £87,134 £174,362

3 Commercial Development - Functions

Number of staff trained to build commercial acumen 6 0 6

3 Fundraising Number of new Memberships

1,115 217 New memberships (313 members) with a value £6,292 for Q2

446 New Memberships (672 members) with a value of £13,515 To date

3 Fundraising Total number of Memberships Increase membership by 15%, realising gross

Q2 Total membership has increased by 11%

Total membership has increased by 13% on the same

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unrestricted income of £108,000

on the same period last year.

period last year Q1&Q2 average.

3 Fundraising Percentage of memberships sold onsite

30% 74% 71% (average Q1 + Q2)

3 Fundraising Number of new Patrons

Increase Patrons by 20% pa realising gross unrestricted income of £21,000

No new patrons in Q2. One patron has not renewed.

Total number of Patrons at end of Q2 is 19. 2 new patron pledges are in process.

3 Fundraising Total number of Patrons (26 at start of year 2) Maintain 90% retention rate

77% (20 Patrons in total) 1 patron conversion - from Joint to Regency patron -reduced the number of patrons but has no impact on income 1 Regency Patron moved to a residential care home

77% (20 Patrons in total)

3 Fundraising Value of funds raised from Trusts and Foundations

£250,000 pa (we now have a new Head of Fundraising in post 2 days per week. He is working to set priorities for the rest of the year and re-assess targets)

£1,000 (Marit & Hans Rausing Charitable Foundation)

£5,000

3 Fundraising Number of legacy pledges 3 0 0

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3 Fundraising Value of major gifts incl corporate support

£10,000 £6,500 (Annual anonymous donation towards the Gardens)

£6,500

3 Social Enterprise

Value of unrestricted income raised

£20,000 net profit

£8,411 (Volk’s) £300 (Dragon Consultancy)

£8,711

3 Business Planning

Evaluate against business model developed Monitoring against business models

Monitoring against business models

Monitoring against business models

4 Heritage Learning

Number of school visits across the Partnership

1,200 Data gathered at year end

Data gathered at year end

4 Heritage Learning

One collaborative project delivered 1 1 1

4 Sector Leadership

Annual conference

1 Delivered in Q3 Delivered in Q3

4 Sector Leadership

Seminars/workshops

3 0 0

4 Sector Leadership

Number of participants attending workshops and conferences

150 0 0

4 Sector Leadership

Staff participation in regional and national conferences, publications, awards

N/A 11 26

4 Sector Leadership

Working with Norfolk on delivery of MPM action plan for diversity report As per action plan diversity report

As per action plan diversity report

We are working with Norfolk to plan a presentation to the NMDC in November on achievements against the Diversity Action

We are working with Norfolk to plan a presentation to the NMDC in November on achievements against the Diversity Action

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Plan (based on the conference call yesterday)

Plan (based on the conference call yesterday)

4 Sector Leadership

Implementation of actions in diversity report through the Equalities Plan Reporting to ACE and picking up in the Equalities

Equalities plan

To be reported in full in Q4

To be reported in full in Q4

4 Volunteering & Workforce Development

Number of volunteering roles/opportunities developed

8 3 6


Number of new volunteers

10 29 38


Total number of volunteers

80 146 146


Volunteer profile

Profiling to be done at end of year




Number of workforce development opportunities

11 1 3


Number of staff benefiting from workforce development opportunities

19 10 20


Numbers of staff benefiting from Learning & Development/training

132 To be reported in Q3

To be reported in Q3


Diversity: three apprentices (two via BHCC, one with MPM funding) 3 1 via British Museum traineeship; 2 others in progress

1

5 Children & No. of visitors 5% increase (on KPI under review – KPI under review –

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Families Programming

33,075)

update for Q3 update for Q3

5 Children & Families Programming

Visitor satisfaction 90% across all sites KPI under review – update for Q3

KPI under review – update for Q3

5 Schools Digital Learning

Partnership meetings:

20 10 14


Working with teachers:

6 3 4


Digital Interventions to improve whole museum experience:

6 3 4


Digital enhancements to sessions

2 0 0


Online resources for schools

page views of school resources on website:

views of resources from the TES website:

downloads of resources from the TES website:

15,000

1000

400

3,333

276

156

5,742

468

258

5 Early Years Number of children participating in on site informal activities, or via outreach- Pre-5, and qualitative evaluation

Targets and measuring under review

5 Youth Engagement

Number of young people aged 13-15 participating in informal activities on site



Number of young people aged 13-15 participating in informal activities off site



Qualitative measure – ownership and skills development

Profile of YP

Targets and measuring under review

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Q2 Appendix II: Audience Data, Income and Targets

a) General Audience Data

Q1 Target Q1

Q2 Target Q2

Q3 Target Q3

Q4 Target Q4

Total to date

Target 2016-

17

2015-16 actual

2014-15 actual

% of visits rated as good or excellent

85% n/a 86% n/a

n/a

n/a 86% 83% 83% 88%

% of BME visits rated as good or excellent

88% n/a 86% n/a

n/a

n/a 87% - 86% 80%

% of LGBT visits rated as good or excellent

84% n/a 80% n/a

n/a

n/a 82% - 80% n/a

% of Limited Disabilities visits rated as good or excellent

85% n/a 83% n/a

n/a

n/a 84% - 78% 82%

Total child visits (including schools)

64,247 56,252 58625 69,763

33,282

37,529 122,872 196,826 218,778 223,681

School visits

6,728 5,877 4,886 3,066

8,432

8,175 6,728 25,550 24,806 24,104

Young people accessing RPM through youth programme 122 n/a 103 n/a

n/a

n/a 225 n/a 415 -

No. of activities involving children (figure includes all activities not just Youth engagement, but not outreach)

46 n/a 41 n/a

n/a

n/a 87 n/a - -

No. of children participating in activities (figure includes all activities not just Youth engagement, but not outreach)

1,881 n/a 2,080 n/a

n/a

n/a 3,961 n/a 7,144 5,876

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Q1 Target Q1

Q2 Target Q2

Q3 Target Q3

Q4 Target Q4

Total to date

Target 2016-

17

2015-16 actual

2014-15 actual

No. of groups of children accessing Early Years programme (including outreach)

41 n/a 19 n/a

n/a

n/a 60 n/a - -

No. of children accessing Early Years programme

1,352 661 392 460 1,006 747 1,744 2,874 3,221 1,207

No. of groups of adults participating in Community Engagement projects (this figure includes all adult activities not just community engagement, but not outreach)

142 n/a 172 n/a n/a n/a 314 n/a - -

No. of adults participating in Community Engagement projects (this figure includes all adult activities not just community engagement, but not outreach)

6,074 n/a 4,153 n/a n/a n/a 10,227 n/a 1,605

(11,640) 13,481

No. of web sessions

146,460 130,000 152,249 160,000 120,000 140,000 298,709 550,000 603,101 466,258

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b) Visitor Figures

Q1 Target Q1

Q2 Target Q2

Q3 Target Q3

Q4 Target Q4

Total to date

Target 2016/17

2015-16 actual

2014-15 actual

RPM visits (all sites)

139,934 156,255 151,293 188,548 89,951 98,761 291,227 533,515 533,515 650,589

Royal Pavilion visits 101,462 105,585 107,256 111,790 50,628 56,512 208,718 324,515 328,566 334,333

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery visits

16,601 30,599 21,154 52,257 19,203 22,941 37,755 125,000 114,167 243,033

Hove Museum & Art Gallery visits

8,134 8,711 9,783 8,680 8,412 10,197 17,917 36,000 40,831 35,461

Booth Museum visits 6,360 6,012 7,670 7,798 6,612 7,578 14,030 28,000 29,495 27,380

Preston Manor visits 7,377 5,348 6,060 8,023 5,096 1,533 13,437 20,000 20,456 10,382

% of Royal Pavilion visitors from Brighton & Hove

3% n/a 3% n/a n/a n/a 3% n/a 4% n/a

% of Brighton Museum & Art Gallery visitors from Brighton & Hove

21% n/a 16% n/a n/a n/a 18% n/a 28% n/a

% of Hove Museum & Art Gallery visitors from Brighton & Hove

56% n/a 54% n/a n/a n/a 55% n/a 50% n/a

% of Booth visitors from Brighton & Hove

48% n/a 43% n/a n/a n/a 45% n/a 49% n/a

% of Preston Manor visitors from Brighton & Hove

17% n/a 14% n/a n/a n/a 16% n/a 18% n/a

% of RPM (all sites) visitors from Brighton & Hove

11% n/a 10% n/a n/a n/a 11% n/a 16% n/a

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c) Income and Targets

Target 2016/17 Q1 Actual Q1 Target

Q1 Variation Q1+Q2 Actual Q1+Q2 Target Q2 Actual Q2 Target Q2 Variation

Royal Pavilion £2,618,100 £801,542 £827,320 -£25,778 £1,727,922 £1,785,544 £926,380 £958,224 -£31,844

Preston Manor £36,400 £17,227 £9,927 +£7,300 £34,154 £24,130 £16,927 £14,203 +£2,724

Brighton Museum £217,558 £35,912 £53,256 -£17,344 £80,530 £144,208 £44,618 £90,952 -£46,334

Cultural Exemption £50,792 £0 £12,698 -£12,698 £0 £25,396 £0 £12,698 -£12,698

Functions £262,670 £87,399 £79,024 +£8,375 £174,362 £152,735 £86,963 £73,711 +£13,252

Retail Net £705,840 £193,305 £203,416 -£10,111 £420,744 £464,299 £227,439 £260,883 -£33,444

Catering Net £77,230 £11,003 £19,308 -£8,305 £14,746 £38,646 £3,743 £19,338 -£15,595

Donations £29,550 £5,222 £8,215 -£2,993 £10,612 £16,688 £5,390 £8,473 -£3,083

Learning (schools) £55,800 £11,934 £10,629 +£1,305 £16,949 £15,640 £5,015 £5,011 +£4

Guiding £54,270 £20,700 £24,605 -£3,905 £29,581 £34,030 £8,881 £9,425 -£544

Events £28,270 £3,322 £2,127 +£1,195 £10,047 £5,466 £6,725 £3,339 +£3,386

Filming £11,300 £475 £2,825 -£2,350 £1,800 £5,650 £1,325 £2,825 -£1,500

Property Rental £6,400 £1,599 £1,599 £0 £3,198 £3,198 £1,599 £1,599 £0

Booking fees £8,180 £3,791 £2,045 +£1,746 £7,181 £4,090 £3,390 £2,045 +£1,345

TOTAL £4,162,360 £1,193,431 £1,256,994 -£63,563 £2,531,826 £2,719,720 £1,338,395 £1,462,726 -£124,331

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