MDM Email sign up
From 1 April 2024 Museum Development Midlands (MDM) will be delivering the museum development programme to museums and heritage sites across the Midlands.
Please sign up below if you would like to hear from the MDM team about our upcoming training and projects, grant opportunities and to receive newsletters from April onwards.
As well as regular newsletters we will occasionally send more targeted emails on our networks or specific themes eg Trustee Network, Schools and Learning. If you'd like to receive any of these please select the ones of interest to you.
Privacy Policy
Here is a quick summary of what you need to know
We are Museum Development Midlands (MDM), this is an initiative jointly managed by The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Limited (IGMT) and Leicestershire County Council (LCC)
Your personal information is held by IGMT
IGMT only shares and processes information with LCC for MDM purposes. LCC will be processing the information for the purpose of running events effectively, contacting museums with opportunities, reporting to Arts Council England and managing grants
We don’t share your personal information with any third parties for their own marketing purposes
When booking on an event, applying for a grant or signing up to a network or a project we collect basic information, such as name, email address, job role and organisation name. We record which events you attend, which grants you apply for on behalf of your organisation (and the results of those applications) and which projects you participate in.
We use this information to arrange for your participation at events, to monitor and evaluate our programme and to keep you informed of upcoming activities such as grants, projects and other events
If you have expressed interest in specific aspects of our work, we keep your contact details and information about your areas of interest
If you have given us your consent, we will send you emails about all aspects of our work, including training events, grants, projects, networks and sector news
We use external companies to help us send you emails to help make our marketing more efficient. We also use companies to run our IT systems and websites. Whilst we pass on your details to these companies, they only use your information for our purposes and they never share it with anyone else. These organisations are called data processors, and they will also respect your data and keep it safe
We have systems in place to ensure that your information is safe in our hands
On the occasions when our processing of your personal data relies on your consent, you can withdraw this consent at any time. You can also update your details or ask us to provide you with all the information we hold on you. To do this just email data.protection@ironbridge.org.uk or call 01952 435900 and ask for Museum Development.
Please read our full privacy policy before signing up to the newsletter.