Internships
The Wordsworth Trust Internship Programme
We have now successfully recruited ten interns for the Wordsworth Trust's internship scheme 2010. Recruitment for 2011 will begin in the summer, so please check this site again at this time for further details.
22nd January 2011 - 31st December 2011
Duration: Interns will be asked to commit to this programme and to see it through, unless unforeseeable personal circumstances intervene, during the dates specified above.
Accommodation: This is a residential scheme, with shared, on-site accommodation available to rent. The rent is currently £50 a week and most interns find that they are eligible to receive housing benefit towards this of £45. Interns with savings of £6,000 or more may receive less benefit.
Financial implications: The Trust is able to award a training bursary of approximately £46.85 a week for subsistence.
During these twelve months, interns will receive a unique, all-round experience (five out of seven days a week) of both an historic house and a working museum that receives over 60,000 visitors a year. Alongside visitor services, such as guided tours of the cottage, selling tickets and merchandise in the gift shop and receiving visitors to the museum and the collections centre, interns will be able to gain experience of caring for, maintaining and developing a Designated Collection of just over 63,000 catalogued items. The curatorial team will equip interns with a knowledge and experience of museum practice and procedures, preventative conservation methods, updating and maintaining the collections records (using Modes for Windows and Modes XML), researching potential and recent acquisitions and deposits.
There may also be opportunities to undertake projects and gain experience in other areas, such as education and outreach, custodianship, contemporary literature and marketing.
For more information, please complete our contact form.
Read My Internship Experience.
Read A Grasmere Journal by Emily Hasler, Wordsworth Trust Intern Blog - 2009
