The Arts Society's Heritage Volunteers undertake projects for museums, National Trust properties, historic houses, libraries, gardens and other organisations.  We give our time to care for collections, record documents and act as guides and stewards.

Currently, we are not involved in any Heritage Projects.

Examples of projects we have been involvede with in the past:

The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum and The Adjutant General's Corps Museum.  Both these museums have many military uniforms in their collection, some going back to the eighteenth century.  Not all of these are on display, so protective covers are needed for those kept in storage.  Our volunteers helped make from a man-made material called Tyvek, which will keep the uniforms dry and free from rot, mildew and moth.  Click here to see what the RHR Museum put on their blog about us.

The Hampshire Record Office holds all the Hampshire tithe maps from the mid 1800s, and makes them freely available for anyone who wishes to view them at the Record Office, whether for personal or business use.  These are an important part of our heritage, and are regularly accessed by people researching their family history, or the history of their home or locality.  The maps have been scanned in so that they can be viewed online.  However, to make them usable, volunteers are needed to transcribe the information on the maps, and the associated 'awards' or schedules.  These awards list the owners, occupiers and value of the plots of land and property, and give the land use, such as arable, pasture, garden, forest, etc.

Wessex Film & Sound Archive at the Record Office holds all kinds of film and sound recordings to do with Hampshire.  They are looking for volunteers to document the films in order to make the catalogue 'searchable' online.  The subject matter could be anything from air shows in the 1980s to 1930s street scenes.