Welcome

Welcome to the Interpretaction website, last updated in December 2006. On these pages you can find out what kept Verity Walker and her growing team of associates busy over the past 12 months or so.

Getting on our bike – literally – was a high point of working life this year! Interpretaction audited Aberdeenshire district’s forest interpretation for Forestry Commission Scotland, which included assessing this glamorous composting toilet and ski shack at Cabrach in Aberdeenshire...

Lots more outdoor contracts this year which is great, and part of the reason why Verity moved Interpretaction from leafy Buckinghamshire to her childhood home on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands.

Since its launch in 1999 as a consultancy specialising in interpretation and education for historic, natural and cultural sites and museums, Interpretaction’s client list has expanded to include contracts with:

• British Waterways
• Forestry Commission Scotland
• The National Trust
• The National Maritime Museum
• The Great Glen Ways Initiative (which combines Forestry Commission Scotland, Highland Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and British Waterways)
• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The Highland Museum of Childhood
• The Royal Geographical Society
• The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum (Edinburgh Castle)

Interpretaction runs a friendly and down-to-earth consulting service. We can provide:

• Interpretation/education planning and project management
• Interpretation/education training and programme development
• Interpretive audits
• Evaluation of all kinds of heritage projects/programmes
• Live interpretation development and implementation

Verity works throughout Europe and the UK through a team of experienced associates who include:

Loic Benot, developing the Interpretaction approach in France under the title www.depiedencap.net. A bilingual interpreter, Loic has worked at many sites across the UK and in France.

Wordsmith par excellence, Eleanor Bird regularly contributes to audit work and written interpretation projects.

Nicky Boyd, an experienced evaluation consultant, frequently joins forces with us on evaluation and research projects.

Designers Alistair Milligan and Heather Ross of Ross Associates combine unflappability, endless patience and good humour with a rare flare for layout and image. And it is a privilege to be working with Michael Glen, one of Scotland’s great interpreters, and his associate Jo Scott, a brilliant interpretive planner, on a Ross Associates-led project for Forestry Commission Scotland and RSPB at Culbin.

Expert live interpreters Andrew Ashmore and Chris Bailey have scripted and helped to develop many live interpretation programmes with Interpretaction.