How to Help

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Join for a reduced price up until December 31st, 2010...
Click here to download our Friends/ Patrons Joining Form

Junior/ Student Friend - £10 (was £20)
For up to 16 years or students with valid ID

Adult Friend - £15 (was £30)

Adult Friend + 1 - £22.50 (was £45)
For two people living at the same address

Senior Friend - £10 (was £20)
For the over 60s

Senior Friend + 1 - £15 (was £30)
For two over 60s living at the same address

Family Friends - £30 (was £60)
For a family of 2 adults and 2 children

By becoming a Friend we can provide you with the following:

One year free entrance (excluding Special Events)
Seasonal Newsletter with Museum and Event updates
Use of our Archive/ Resource room by appointment only
(conditions apply)

Become a Patron

Those able to offer greater support are invited to become Patrons.

Click here to download our Friends/ Patrons Joining Form

Patron - £70

As a Patron you will receive:

One year free entrance for yourself and one other person
Free entrance to all Museum Day Events
Your name on a publicly situated list in the entrance area
Seasonal Newsletter with Museum and Event updates
Use of our Archive/ Resource room by appointment only
(conditions apply)

Life Patron - £300

As a Life Patron you will receive:

Free entrance for yourself and one other person for life
Free entrance to all Museum Day Events
Your name on a publicly situated list in the entrance area
Your name on our website and in our Newsletter
Invitation to special Private Running Evenings
Discounted rates for the private use of the Museum for
private functions
Seasonal Newsletter with Museum and Event updates
Use of our Archive/ Resource room by appointment only
(conditions apply)

Click here to download our Friends/ Patrons Joining Form

Sponsorship

With so much going on at the Museum, there has never been
a better time to get involved. Why not join our list of Sponsors
by contributing to one of our exciting project initiatives?

We are currently looking for sponsors for the Brighton Belle
Wall Mural, the Brighton Showcase, the Museum Management
Fund and contributions towards Museum running costs.
Support the project of your choice with a one-off payment
for a year’s sponsorship, and by gift aiding your donation,
your money will go even further.

As well as funding all these exciting initiatives we are constantly
looking for extra monetary donations to supplement the huge
contribution in kind of our loyal team of volunteers. Donations
will go towards the restoration and maintenance of exhibits, the
Education programme, improvements to the exterior of the
building, better lighting and signage, new acquisitions and
other expenses such as rent, insurance, heating and lighting.
Your donations play an important part in safeguarding these internationally important collections for the public enjoyment
and education of present and future generations.

So, here’s a reminder of how you can sponsor the Museum...

Management Fund
£5 to £10 per week = £250/500 pa.

Brighton Belle Wall Mural Project
between £250-£750

Brighton Showcase
between £250-£1000

Museum Running costs
sponsor an exhibit (£70 +) or showcase with
your name attributed (£500 +)

Click here to download our Sponsorship form now

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There are several ways to donate to the museum, all of
which help us safeguard our heritage for present and future
generations. So, what can you donate?

Collector’s items

Donations of collector's items to the Collections Trust
enrich the museum’s collections; your gift will be catalogued
and added to our inventory, improving an already superb
variety of toys and models.

Legacies

Leaving a legacy to the Littledale-Brough Trust (Collections
Trust) is one way that you can help secure the museum’s
future. Your contribution, no matter what size, can
be used in different ways such as to help fund the running
of the museum, to acquire new items for the collections
, to fund restoration projects or to help fund and improve
our Education programme. This of course is dependent on
the legatee’s specific wishes. Furthermore, the Brighton
Toy and Model Museum is a registered charity and the
Collections Trust has charitable tax status, therefore any
bequests made under a Will can be made free of Inheritance
Tax. If you wish to bequeath a toy, model or collection to
the Museum, we urge you to contact us to ensure it is
appropriate to the Museum Collections.

New for 2010, the Museum is offering companies:

Public recognition of your support within the Visitor Information area of the Museum, in our Newsletter
and on our website
Public recognition as an annual benefactor of the Museum.
Support for a local charitable Museum increases your
contribution towards your corporate social
responsiblity policy
A way of rewarding and motivating your employees with
free entrance to the Museum
Reduced rates for corporate entertainment at the Museum.
Benefits include out-of-hours opening and possible running
of the trains for clients and staff, making it a memorable
occasion.
A chance to physically display items/ publicity within the
area of the Brighton Showcase

Want to play with your spare time? Why not help look after some treasured toys? We are always looking for regular volunteers to fill a range of job roles, from manning the shop, general maintenance and administrative tasks to accountancy, legal and marketing, publicity, newsletters, promotion, graphic design and artwork. We can find you the perfect job role in relation to your skills and expertise. Interested? If you know of anybody or you yourself would like to volunteer please contact Stacey at the museum. After all, it is the huge support of our loyal volunteers that keeps the museum open and its wonderful collection on show for the benefit of current and future generations.

Haven’t got the time? You don’t have to be a regular volunteer to support the museum but you can still help us to encourage and entice visitors through our doors. So how can YOU help? How about encouraging your friends and/or relatives to visit us? Or furthermore introduce them to our friends, patrons and corporate schemes? Easy... All the encouragement they need is in this newsletter!

Maybe you have children or grandchildren? Why not let their teacher know about us? Last year we provided a fun and educational session to over 60 schools in and around Sussex. With interactive learning, we provide the opportunity for children to move away from the classroom to a safe environment where history comes to life. Covering a range of topics, from toys and movement, comparing new and old, mechanics and materials, our sessions are consistent with the national curriculum and more importantly we make toys FUN!

Or how about advertising locally for us? From distributing our brochure around your area to finding and befriending us on facebook, you’d be raising our profile and giving people the opportunity to come see and learn about our heritage. Maybe you are a collector? Are you regularly attending collectors’ events? How about taking some of our brochures and spreading the word?

The Museum is hugely grateful to our generous sponsors. Please
visit our Sponsors Page for full contact details for each sponsor.

Network Rail

The facilitation of all these works has been made possible through the much appreciated generosity of Network Rail by providing in kind, a workshop, parking and skip location for the duration of the improvements. This is in addition to the grant of a new lease.

Wessex Networks

Many thanks to the team at Wessex Networks who have not only generously sponsored two computers but donated their professional time to come down to the museum and facilitate the installation of software upgrades and a computer network.

SECURITY 201

With all the vast improvements here at the museum, anticipated public access to our new resource room and the substantial additions to our collections, we have realised the greater need for a more sophisticated security system. This has been achieved thanks to the generous sponsorship of the top local security firm ‘SECURITY 201’. Our wonderful collections are much more secure as the system is now in place.

Our continued thanks go to:

Virgin Trains for the Pendolino tilting train
Mid Sussex Models, 13 Junction Road, Burgess Hill
for '00' railway equipment including track
for the Railway History Display.
Edwards & Hope, 5 New Road, Brighton for
electrical supplies
Wallis and Wallis, West Street Auction Galleries,
Lewes.
TW CAT Ltd., (info@twcat.co.uk) for designing, writing
and producing the lovely new leaflets for the
Museum and for fundraising ideas and support.