Great news! The Heritage Fund is supporting us with our Revival - Back to Life Project and we have have planned the first couple of months. Our heritage volunteer team have been working hard over the last year to put the project together and are delighted to receive £248k to fund the project for the next two years.

As we launch, we are looking forward to welcoming Hull’s RE ambassadors from Francis Askew Primary School as they try out some of the workshops that we will be offering during the project. Look out for their digital report in a future post.

They’ll be here with the PGCE students from the University of Hull who will be visiting on the 23rd March to “collect” resources for their digital learning project. They’ll be using the heritage of the Minster to inspire lessons for the primary curriculum and learning how they can use their local church to stimulate learning when they become teachers.

We have begun to restore some of the items in our collection so that we can share them with the public in our new visitor centre. Fragile items in our collection are going from Humberfield Archaeology, where Lisa has catalogued and labelled them, to a conservation team for stabilisation and preparation for display.

We will be working with our partners at the University of York, Centre for Christianity and Culture, who are experts in designing and delivering interpretive materials for visitors. This will include high quality audio-visual and digital resources. Dr Louise Hampson has been advising us in the design of the project and we are planning the visitor experience together. We’ll be using a 3d printer to recreate some or our most delicate finds so that visitors can touch the replicas.

We're now recruiting for a Volunteering Manager who will help us recruit, train and manage all our volunteers. The new potholder will help us and the church of St Mary’s, Lowgate, to provide a high quality welcome to visitors.

If you’d like to find out more about the project or get involved contact jane@hullminster.org