Jo Gillam

Click 1jogillam.wixsite.com/jo-gillam-free… to find out how, using my years of experience, I can help your museum/heritage site with 1. Learning & engagement e.g. schools, families. 2. Training courses & support on improving access & inclusion for D/deaf, disabled &/or neurodivergent people.

We're excited to be working with @MusDevSE on a new series of "link and learn" online events. Join us for the first one on the 20th of November, focussing on early years - eventbrite.co.uk/e/link-and-lea…

Tickets are available for GEM East's friendly Meet & Share event in Great Yarmouth 11am-4pm on 2nd August. Join us to catch-up on news from E. Anglia, share challenges & ideas, & to explore 2 museums, Time & Tide Museum, & Tolhouse. Everyone welcome & lunch is provided!

Book your tickets now for GEM East's Meet & Share in Great Yarmouth 11am-4pm Fri 2nd Aug. Join us to explore 2 museums doing great work: Time & Tide Museum & Tolhouse, & to catch up on projects from the region. All welcome. GEM members free. @gem_heritage" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">eventbrite.com/e/gem-east-mee… @gem_heritage

See below & don't forget to book your place on GEM East's latest online event for museum people! Also, save the date: Our popular, annual Meet & Share day will be taking place @timetidemuseum in Great Yarmouth on 2nd Aug. More details to follow. Looking forward to both!

We did! Together with Year 4s & 5s, took a look at the #AngloSaxon Royal Burial Grounds, had a mock dig to find out about archaeology processes, handled replica treasures & saw some originals. Great being involved in school sessions @NT_SuttonHoo over 2 days this week. Loved it.

A trip to the Bury St Edmund's Suffolk Archives for a museums & libraries network meeting involved a fun go at an escape room activity for their fab D/deaf project. The visit had to be combined with going to a museum afterwards. Hello Moyse's Hall Museum! @MoysesHallNews

Enjoyed a hard hat tour (with ladder-climbing!) of our new, community pub, The George. This Tudor building is being renovated back to life after a fire, thanks to Lottery funding & a lot of local effort. Looking forward to using it when it opens next spring.

Sounds exciting! I'll make a note for next year!

4 varied presentations full of learning (including if I may say, one from me!) @SEMFederation's study morning today on putting #DisabilityAccess into action. Enjoyed hearing about great work in N. Herts, Cambridge, Suffolk. Thanks for inviting me to share recent a sensory project

At Aldeburgh Museum & Parham Airfield Museum. Interesting, contrasting places. Beautiful weather. Perfect combination.

GEM East of England Reps Alison Giles and myself are pleased to announce our latest event for members & non-members. It'll take place online at 3pm on Tuesday 14 May. Do join us if you can. For more details & to book, please visit eventbrite.co.uk/e/gemeast-work… #museums

Excited to have had solar panels installed. The next, small step in our personal journey towards being kinder to Earth. #NoPlanetB

@gruddphoto @alisonstandley @NorwichCastle @ChangingPlaceUK I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully @NorwichCastle are promptly addressing the issues.

Really interesting presentation by Tim Pestell about the redevelopment of @NorwichCastle Impressed by all the access improvements especially the installation of a #ChangingPlaces toilet. Great! #shareconf24

Jago Cooper's talk about the innovations at UAE's Salisbury Centre: Wow! 😃 #shareconf24

Great to have an all-female panel discussion on inclusive recruitment at #shareconf24 Well done for calling out the lack of women in senior museum posts as reflected in the male-dominated list of speakers at today's event. Sadly its so normal I hadn't noticed!

@NorwichCastle for sadly the last SHARE Museums East conference. A meeting of a very positive group of professionals despite extremely challenging times in the heritage & cultural sector. Looking forward to lots of learning, sharing & inspiration. #shareconf24

I've just written to my MP calling on the government to introduce autism training for all education staff. Add your voice and support @AmbitiousAutism and its Written Off? campaign: bit.ly/3R0lvA9

You know you've moved to a rural area when around 100 tractors decorated with lights & some with festive tableaux, process through your village! Admittedly not good for carbon emissions but great for the charities benefitting & fun for us onlookers. #WickhamMarket