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Well what a winter - always the silly season for project briefs, they were even flying into the inbox between Christmas and New Year with a return date of 6th January! 

Fortunately we have done well in the fray, picking up really interesting work in Bo'ness (looking at engaging local people in the life/work of early C20th architect Matt Steele - if you've never heard of him, we hope you soon will have done!); Udale Bay RSPB reserve (an exciting re-interpretation of their new hide site and its satellites) and a rather different contract to curate an exhibition at the Edinburgh Sheraton.  These are all implementation projects rather than planning, which makes a nice change.

Meanwhile longer-term contracts continue with the National Trust for Scotland, Woodland Trust Scotland, Raigmore Community Council (see news pages for full details of a remarkable piece of detective work) and Abernethy Old Kirk Trust.  NTS Scotland's Stories will finally launch this spring - watch this space!

More tenders out there too, but we're likely to be at full stretch until Easter 2012 at the earliest.

Interpretaction is an associates-based network of interpretation professionals located across the UK and in Europe.  It was established by Verity Walker in 1999 after a 20+ year career in museums and heritage organisations.  We can offer:

  • planning, writing and implementing interpretation projects
  • evaluation and audit of existing interpretive sites/structures/projects
  • development of live interpretation tailor-made training programmes for staff or volunteers
  • devising of artistic and poetic interpretive projects and techniques
  • interpretive song-writing
  • research into the efficacy of different interpretive methods
  • heritage education planning
  • INSET days for teachers and heritage education staff/volunteers
  • photography for interpretive projects
  • a good selection of high-resolution Scottish wild and garden plant images (just ask!)

 

Based on the Black Isle just north of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, Verity also has a base in Cippenham near London, and works throughout Europe and the UK, hand-picking appropriate teams of experienced associates for each project (see People page).

Verity is a full member of the Association for Heritage Interpretation, a member of the Group for Education in Museums and the Museums Association, and was a voluntary director of the International Museums Theatre Alliance for 7 years (2000 - 2007).