Wakefield Museums and Castles

You can register your interest in booking a loan box by using the form on this page.

Please read the following information before you do so.

Before contacting us please consider:

• Which box interests you

• Potential loan dates

• Potential date for preliminary meeting (this must be completed before the start of the loan period)

• Whether you would prefer the preliminary meeting to take place in school or online

We will need to know:

• The number of classes and pupils that will be engaging with the loan box

• The year group(s)

• Topics you are studying

• Any other requirements (i.e. suggestions for adapting loan box activities and content for SEND pupils)

Once you have booked, you will be sent the following documentation:

• A booking form with confirmed dates that you must sign and return

• A teachers’ pack for your chosen loan box

• Additional loan box resources such as PowerPoint Presentations

Loan boxes must be collected from and returned to either of the following sites:

Wakefield Museum, Wakefield One, Burton Street, Wakefield, WF1 2EB

or

Pontefract Museum, Salter Row, Pontefract, WF8 1BA

• Loan boxes must be stored in a lockable, secure area within school when not in use
• When out of secured storage, objects should be returned to their boxes in between use or if left unattended for any amount of time
• Class teacher must check objects before and after use for damage and ensure all objects are packed safely
• Responsibility for the loan boxes and objects lies with the named member of school staff (usually the person who makes the booking) during the agreed loan dates
• Please advise us if a colleague other than named member of school staff is to pick up or drop off the loan boxes
• Loan boxes must be transported directly between museum and school, they must not be taken to private homes or any other locations and must not be left in cars

Loan boxes are lent out on a half termly basis at a charge of £80 each. Schools will be invoiced prior to the start of the loan.

An additional charge will be applied for any lost, damaged, or broken objects, to an amount of £20 per object. You must inform us of any loss, damage, or breakages immediately and complete a report form, sending it to us before the return of the loan box.

If you need to rearrange or cancel your booking for any reason you must do so by email as soon as possible.

If you rearrange your loan booking within 2 weeks of your original collection date you will incur an additional charge of 25% of the cost of your booking.

If you cancel within 2 weeks of your loan booking or omit to cancel and do not collect the loan box, you will be charged the full booking fee and incur an additional charge of 50%.

This stands for any agreed booking, even if we have not received a signed booking form from you.

If a booking form has not been signed and returned two weeks before a requested delivery date, and the school has not contacted the Museums and Castles Team to amend the original booking request, the booking will be assumed to be confirmed and the school will be liable for any related fees.