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Awards 

Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre Receive Highly Commended Prize at Regional Heritage Award 2019
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On Tuesday 24th September guests attended the Biennial Regional Heritage Awards in the magnificent setting of the National Civil War Museum and Palace Theatre in Newark. 
 
The awards are organised and funded by Museum Development East Midlands and recognise excellence and innovation in museums, historic houses and heritage sites across the region.

The Friends of Metheringham Airfield (FOMA) were awarded a "Highly Commended" prize in the "Best Project on a Shoestring (less than £1,000)" section.

Highly Commended – The Friends of Metheringham Airfield for ‘Creating a Memorial Room fit for heroes at Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre’. You can read more about the project in our Blog post here.
Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre given award for engaging new audiences at the museum -  The Sandford Award for Informal Learning

We are pleased to announce that on the 3rd of September 2019, Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre was awarded the Sandford Award for Informal Learning (SAIL). We received this award for work we have done towards engaging new audiences at the museum. We piloted a children’s trail and the money from the Sandford Cascade given to us for the SAIL project meant we could carry out a trial trail and provide transport to our site for the support group CANadda; enabling them to take part in a film and skills project.​
The project ran during 2018 and engaged two different audiences, families with children and autistic young adults and their carers. Our Curator, Caterina Scott, worked with members of the Friends of Metheringham Airfield including designer Pam Thomas, to develop a children’s trail that families could use as a mini guide around the museum. They had a map of the site and children looked for images of our mascot Mr Fox where the answers to questions could be found.  This trial enabled us to gain feedback from those who took part and produce an improved version for the 2019 season.
The second project involved our curator again working with CANadda, a support group for young autistic adults and their carers. The project enabled the group to visit the museum a number of times, to learn new skills by using an iPad and the app iMovie and then to produce a film of their visits. The group were also able to give guidance as to sensory aspects of the museum rooms that could affect those with autism. To view the films produced by the group, the film shown at the award ceremony and other Sandford films relating to other SAIL recipients please see the links below. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC_HfXvxR24 MAVC SAIL award film as presented during the awards ceremony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm19wdT9gC0 a film by Shaun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4zgqckDMm8 a film by Sue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8LsQqfuDk a film by Dominic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ZwP187xMc a film by Debbie
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvoEoBqs3l4GO9gxEyLunUg/videos  Sandford You Tube channel 

​Many thanks to Chris Vaughan Photography for the event images below.
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Award Ceremony held at the National Civil War Centre in Newark.
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Our Curator, Caterina Scott, receiving the SAIL award from Dr Tracy Borman, Chief Executive, Heritage Education Trust.
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The award winners with their certificates
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The Award Certificate
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To advance the education of the public and provide for the general benefit of the public the preservation and conservation of the buildings, other constructions and related historic artefacts forming part the former Metheringham Airfield as defined in the lease and in connection with 106 Squadron of the Royal Air Force, No. 5 Group Bomber Command, the Royal Air Force and RAF Metheringham and by the exhibition and public display of historic and informative collections relating thereto.

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