Heritage Volunteers
NADFAS offers members the opportunity to work as volunteers on a variety of interesting projects, hence Heritage Volunteers. Here in Ross-on-Wye we are currently involved in two main projects.
Firstly, a number of enthusiastic members are involved at Hellens, Much Marcle, in conserving (never use the term restoring!) antique textiles which are sometimes hanging in threads. Stabilising them and thus ensuring that they remain for further generations can be a painstaking but satisfying task. There are experts in the group ready to give advice and instruction, so no previous sewing experience is required.
For more information and pictures of the work at Hellens, please click here
Secondly, we have a group from Ross DFAS who have been busy at the Hereford Museum Resource Centre in Friar Street, cataloguing and packing (for safe storage) an amazing variety of historic artefacts - one week it may be Jane Austen bonnets and tiny shoes; and another time it may be Victorian valentine cards. Most recently they have been dusting and labelling hundreds of paintings stored in a Dickensian attic above the Museum, ready for them to be transferred to the wonderful new extension to the Resource Centre.
Of course, the addition of pleasant coffee breaks and congenial company are an added bonus!
If you think you might like to do something new and interesting, why not find out more about it? You can do as little or as much as you feel able to - once a week, once a fortnight, once a month - and, of course we all disappear on holiday from time to time.