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I’m very organised, so I like planning. We never had an activity plan before and we didn’t have an accessibility policy and those sorts of things. Putting all of those in places is really satisfying.

We spent a lot of time with the Museum of London and they gave us lots of advice about how to set up a really good plan and how to use the money. It was a year of planning to get the engagement plan ready to get the funding. And that’s part of the magic, too. We just reached out and said, can you fund this?

And everyone went, ‘Yes.’

You mentioned before that the museum really wants to work on a life-long learning programme. Could you talk about the plan?

We’re focusing on families at the moment because our research in the audience shows us that there are more young children in Wimbledon than there are in other boroughs in London. So, it seemed like a good way to reach our target audience and also because we knew that it’s important for families to start visiting museums, then generate learners throughout their life.

This is really important to me because my father in law lives in Wimbledon. And there aren’t many things that people can do when they’re at home. We have this life-long learning project, so that we can make sure everybody of all ages is always learning.

We will have some fantastic reminiscence boxes been made that can handle

One on childhood, one on the common, one on sports, and other different themes. We also want to include the scouts. Working together with Memory Box Foundation, they can be used in schools, in old people’s homes or in other environments to trigger learning in that way.

We’ll run local history sessions here with local chairities so that we can reach those young people who are just coming out of being a child and going into being an adult.

We’ll also outreach to the care homes. We are going to run a friendship group.

We have a friendship group where they’re going to have people who have dementia. We’ll have them do artwork with nursery school children and discuss what they’re doing and respond to the objects in the museum.

What we really want to remember is that it’s a place of friendship.

objects.

I didn’t know a museum could do that much until you tell me everything that is being planned and going on here.

I’d love to have more meetings held here. For example, if you’ve got the school that wants to run a history club here, then we’ll get them in and do that and then host them and make them feel welcomed.

For instance, next to the peacock, there will be a fan with peacock feathers and you can touch it. That’s a real benefit of being small. Lots of the time, people think it’s a disadvantage but actually It feels intimate and it feels like a home. But it also means you can do a trail in here and you only need like one volunteer to help because you can see everything. In a way, it’s lucky to have a really good museum.