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Peter McCall Supports Learning Disability Week and Peoples First – Takeover Day In partnership with ‘Peoples First – Takeover’ day, Peter McCall will be shadowed for the day, as part of Learning Disability Week and inclusion is very much at the heart of this campaign Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2019/06/20/peter-mccall-supports-learning-disability-week-and-peoples-first-takeover-day/
Our artist in residence, Sarah Richardson, explains what went on with our family drawing wall on our Takeover Day in March!
it was a huge success and we had some great drawings from people about what home means to them. There was a palm tree, treehouse, books and a fireplace drawn by our families!
An early 19th century cough medicine recipe that we found in the stores on Twitter Takeover Day:
“For a Cough or Spitting of Blood: Take 20 snails wipe ‘em clean and boil ‘em a stout time in a pint of milk & as much of spring water & take it twice a Day”
Takeover Day - Call for Partners!!
We’re looking for people and organisations to offer up their jobs for the day to be taken over by local children and young people. Now in its 7th year, Takeover Day is one of the largest participatory events in England. Maggie Atkinson, Children’s Commissioner for England said “Takeover Day gives children and young people the chance to work with adults for the day and be involved in decision-making.
Organisations get the opportunity to show their commitment to their communities and tell us they gain a fresh perspective on what they do, often with new solutions. Every sector can take part – it’s a flexible event which can be tailored to suit your needs.”
Top 5 reasons to take part
1. Improved links with customers or service users and the local community
2. Fresh ideas, insight and creativity and ways to improve what you do
3. A better understanding of how children and young people experience issues involved in your work
4. The chance to demonstrate your commitment to listening to young people, and encourage their commitment to the success of your organisation
5. It easy to do, and the benefits far outweigh the work needed to make a really successful day!
For more information, please email
Takeover Day 2013 - Call for Partners!
We’re looking for people and organisations to offer up their jobs for the day to be taken over by local children and young people. Now in its 7th year, Takeover Day is one of the largest participatory events in England. Maggie Atkinson, Children’s Commissioner for England said “Takeover Day gives children and young people the chance to work with adults for the day and be involved in decision-making.
Organisations get the opportunity to show their commitment to their communities and tell us they gain a fresh perspective on what they do, often with new solutions. Every sector can take part – it’s a flexible event which can be tailored to suit your needs.”
Top 5 reasons to take part
1. Improved links with customers or service users and the local community
2. Fresh ideas, insight and creativity and ways to improve what you do
3. A better understanding of how children and young people experience issues involved in your work
4. The chance to demonstrate your commitment to listening to young people, and encourage their commitment to the success of your organisation
5. It easy to do, and the benefits far outweigh the work needed to make a really successful day!
For more information, please email
Want to read our report on Takeover Day 2012? Now you can :) Just click the link to have a look.
The day gives children and young people the chance to work with adults for the day and be involved in decision-making. Children benefit from the opportunity to experience the world of work and make their voices heard, while adults and organisations gain a fresh perspective on what they do.
TAKEOVER DAY 2012
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Friday 23rd November 2012 was the Children Commissioner's Takeover Day; a day where young people are given meaningful roles in museums and galleries across the UK. Pupils from Crab Lane and Oswald Primary Schools in Manchester were invited into Whitworth Art Gallery to ‘take over’ the gallery’s twitter account and pose questions to followers based on things they could see throughout the gallery's exhibition spaces. It took only some brief encounters with the works of David Hockney, Aisha Khalid and Jane and Louise Wilson for their young minds to start whirring and for imaginations to soar.
A ‘board meeting’ was called for all of the new 'tweeters-in-charge' and various potential questions were entertained. The pupils' unique interpretations of the Whitworth's current exhibitions were all incredible. Armed with DoodleBuddy, Audioboo and FrameArtist, pupils then kept the South Gallery 'tweetdesk' extremely busy, challenging their followers with ipad drawings, recorded sounds, video performance and at one point even a maths quiz devised using photographs taken around the gallery.
The event proved to be a highly valuable opportunity for the children to explore the decision-making processes behind an institution's online presence; a particularly apt take on the 'Kids in Museums' Takeover Day in a society becoming more and more reliant on new forms of technology and the quirky use of social media to engage with audiences. The team at Whitworth gave pupils the chance to contribute and be playful within a museum environment in a brand new way. Simultaneously, the takeover became a wonderful opportunity for staff and visitors to view the exhibitions through the eyes of those whose imaginations know no bounds.
Follow @WhitworthArt and read back through the children's Takeover day tweets, and follow @agms10 for further coverage of the event.
A conflict of interest
I find myself oddly conflicted over Kids in Museums' Takeover Day this year. On the one hand, it's an initiative that I fully support. We've got a number of young people involved in running & organising things here. It's a good thing. Then I saw the date that it was planned for this year: November 11th. Not wishing to point out the obvious, but there's already a fairly important event happening on that date: Remembrance Day. I understand that the previous takeover days have been on a Friday around that time of November (last year it was Friday 12th), so it makes sense to keep it in the same place in the programme.
My initial thought was that the programming was, at best, insensitive & thoughtless. It conflates an event that is designed to show how working in museums can be fun & for everyone, by everyone with a significantly sombre occasion. That sombre occasion is a fundamental & important part of our annual calendar, we get several hundred attendees for our annual service of remembrance, I personally do sessions on remembrance for about 700 school children every year. The two events are clearly not a good match.
Then the red mist lifted a little, and I saw that there might well be some synergy between the two. Given a little time & delicacy, we might be able to bring a group of young people up to speed with the issues surrounding remembrance. We might be able to give them a real handle on what it means from being involved in our programming for the day. It would be difficult, risky & the potential for real offence to be caused if we got it wrong would be very high. The potential rewards for those young people are massive, but it’s a big ask and the start of October is not the time be embarking on this. Regardless, I have those 30 school visits to book & take care of.
So it makes sense then, for KIM to mention anywhere at all in its publicity for Takeover Day that it falls on Remembrance Day this year. Maybe they might even offer suggestions for how the two could be integrated together, or even theme the event around it.
Sadly, the fact that none of this has happened makes me think that my initial suspicions were founded after all. It seems as though the organisers have paid no attention to the fact that they are sharing their day with the annual Remembrance Day. It reads almost as though they’ve got their fingers in their ears.
Whilst I still support Takeover Day and will be involved in it again I feel that, here at the Royal Marines Museum, we will be abstaining this year. Maybe next year we will be in a position to join in again.
