Friends of Chippenham Museum Heritage Cafe

Friends of Chippenham Museum supports the museum by fundraising, promoting activities and organising an enjoyable social programme for members.

Being a Friend gives you the opportunity to receive newsletters with special interest articles and news from the Museum, attend monthly coffee afternoons called Heritage Café for socialising and special interest talks, and take part in special activities such as local trips, parties, events, etc.

The next Heritage Café will be held in the museum’s Education Room, at 2pm, on Friday 6 February. The speaker will be the museum’s Engagement Officer, Elaine Davis, who will be telling the members about the new series of creative writing workshops for young people currently underway, which has been supported by the Friends of Chippenham Museum allowing these workshops to be free for those aged 16-18 developing their writing skills and eventually see their work in print.

Part of a wider local project ‘Chippenham – Our History’, the museum will be celebrating this year the 400th anniversary of the birth of local antiquarian and inventor of the biography, John Aubrey. It is his mini-biographies, ‘Brief Lives’, that has inspired these young participants and will conclude with a special celebration of the work they produce, including a printed publication.

Annual membership to become a Friend of Chippenham Museum is £5 per person, renewed each July. If you are interested in joining, please visit the website to download a membership form or pop into the museum on your next visit.