Southend Museum is fortunate in having many volunteers who give up their time to help us document, display and preserve the many items in our collections.

Jackie (right) spends a morning a week drawing archaeological finds from local sites, for the museum archives, and for publication.

With the advent of our Discovery Centre, and many other exciting projects and initiatives, there is much to be done.

Hugh, for example, is expert in the restoration of old clocks, and enjoys looking after the old timepieces in our room settings (left).

Although voluntary help is very important to us, unfortunately we currently have no capacity to take on additional general Museum volunteers this year. However, watch this space!...