Wardens

Have you ever considered volunteering?
Are you interested in your local history?
Do you have a few spare hours?

If the answer to any of these questions is yes, why not consider becoming a volunteer warden at the Museum & Heritage Centre or The Yelde Hall Historical Chamber.
All we ask is that you give three hours of your time once a fortnight on a regular basis.
To find out more, please ask a member of staff or phone the Chippenham Museum & Heritage Centre, 01249 705020, ask for the Assistant curator or administrator who will be happy to give you more details.

The Museum operates successfully because of the time and effort our volunteer wardens give to it. At present we have 77 active wardens who either come in to man the desk at the reception on a two week rota or work behind the scenes doing various tasks required and requested by the curatorial staff. and they man the Historic Council Chamber at the Yelde Hall. This is very varied job ranching from cataloguing accessions to translating historic deeds and legal documents into modern English. Other tasks include helping with research, cataloguing the vast photographic collection, identifying to a greater detail objects and their history i.e. medals.

At present the museum is working on producing booklets on local sites/people of interest, which several wardens have taken a keen interest in by doing the research and compiling the initial booklet, one of the booklets being the Maud Heath Causeway.
All our volunteers do have to be interviewed and references required before they can start their service to the museum, if a volunteer is going to have contact with children other than greeting them at reception then they are CRB checked, which the Chippenham Town Council pays for. Please find a copy of our volunteer warden leaflet attached.
Download Wardens Application Form